“As leaders, we're giving out grades in every encounter we have with people. We can choose to give out grades as an expectation to live up to, and then we can reassess them according to performance. Or we can offer grades as a possibility to live into. The second approach is much more powerful.” PeopleGivingPowerfulLeaderPossibilityOffersApproachExpectationsPerformancesEncountersGrades Author:Benjamin Zander
“Somehow the revolutionaries must approach the workers because the workers won't approach them. But it's difficult to know where to start; we've all got a finger in the dam. The problem for me is that as I have become more real, I've grown away from most working-class people.” PeopleKnowsRealProblemDifficultClassApproachFingersWorkersRevolutionaryWorking ClassDams Author:John Lennon
“As an actor, you really want to resonate with your audience. I played a character on Oz and people still approach me in the streets today.” PeopleWantStillsCharacterTodayActorsAudienceStreetsApproach Author:Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
“I don't like to approach people that much. There's been times when I wanted to say something to somebody, in a quick moment, but didn't. Then you think, man, who knows?” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenMomentsWantedApproach Author:Lenny Kravitz
“Too many people believe that one big, public success will solve their self-confidence problems forever. That only happens in the movies. In real life, the opposite strategy is what works. Call it the small victo-ries approach. In time you will discover that all failing really does teach you something you needed to know- so you can regroup and stretch again, with ever more...nerve.” PeopleKnowsBelieveDoeRealSelfProblemBigsHappensTeachForeverFailingNeededApproachOppositesStrategySolveSelf ConfidenceReal LifeNerves Author:Jack Welch
“If a subject has a delicate surface to it, you do not want to go charging in there. You need to establish some kind of presence and understanding. I will say, Try to forget I'm here. I won't ask you to pose, I won't ask you to do anything. It's important that I just be allowed to be around, to be present. Photographing people requires a willingness to be rejected. So, I think the best approach is to be honest and direct. Very often, I tell them, You don't know me. There's no reason why you should trust me... the only thing I can promise is that I'll try to do the most honest work I can.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantNeedsShouldTryingKindI CanImportantReasonAsksUnderstandingForgetSubjectsHonestPromiseApproachDirectSurfaceBeing HonestReason WhyNo ReasonWillingnessDelicateKnow MeRejectedTrust MeChargingHonest WorkYou Don't Know Me Author:William Albert Allard
“Margaret Thatcher drove us like there was no tomorrow. But I think there is a genuine feeling now that this macho, workaholic, earn lots of money way of life has run its course. There has been a shift in attitude. People are looking for a more balanced approach.” PeopleThinkingWayHas BeensFeelingsRunningCoursesAttitudeTomorrowApproachGenuineBalancedLots Of MoneyMachoWorkaholic Author:Edwina Currie
“By trying many different approaches, you may slowly reach the point where you say more about yourself than about the objects or the landscapes or the people you photograph - and this is where photography really interests me.” PeopleTryingMayDifferentInterestObjectsApproachPhotographyPhotographLandscapeAbout YourselfDifferent Approach Author:Frank Horvat
“The real aim of music is to co-ordinate the minds of the people into an intelligent reach for a better world and an intelligent approach to the living future.” PeopleWorldMindRealApproachMusic IsIntelligentAim Author:Sun Ra
“The way that I approach music has a bit of a sense of humor to it. Something slightly different that people can still relate to.” PeopleWayStillsDifferentBitsApproachRelateSense Of Humor Author:Natasha Bedingfield
“It is always a most delightful moment for me when people contact me via mail or approach me at game fairs and thank me for the many enjoyable hours I have brought them with my games.” PeopleMomentsGamesHoursApproachFairsContactMailDelightfulEnjoyable Author:Klaus Teuber
“That's the dream scenario: when people approach these stressful situations not focused on that concrete outcome but just focused on being there and being themselves and enjoying connecting with people. You're not going to be present all the time, but if you can figure out how to connect with yourself and bring that self forth in those moments, you will probably be feeling a lot better over time, and it's likely that even though you're not focused on the outcome, the outcomes will be better.” PeopleIfsSelfMomentsFeelingsDreamEnjoySituationFiguresApproachFocusedOutcomesConcreteConnectingScenariosBeing ThereStressfulStressful Situations Author:Amy Cuddy
“I would describe my style for those who haven't listened to my music as definitely..up-tempo. I try to have something nice, something people could dance to. It's kind of hard though to describe my sound in one record because I think when I approach music I try to do something different every day. Do a different vibe.” PeopleThinkingTryingKindDifferentHardSoundRecordsNiceStyleHavensApproachTempo Author:Kid Ink
“I think that the best approach would be if the American people ever insist that we cut down on the massive amounts of money that moves into the campaigns from special interest groups, and if we resist publicly by saying "No more negative advertisements that destroy the reputations of one's opponents." In the meantime, just don't pay any attention to negative ads, if you can avoid them, and try to focus on the issues.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingWould BeMovingInterestPayAttentionIssuesFocusCuttingGroupsSpecialAmountApproachNegativeCampaignsReputationOpponentsMassiveAdsSaying NoAdvertisementsSpecial InterestsInterest GroupsSpecial Interest Groups Author:Jimmy Carter
“Part of the fun of writing, touring, teaching, is engaging with real people about all of it: what to do now, how to build a movement, of approaches to teaching, of parenting - it's exciting to be in that dialogue.” PeopleWritingRealFunTeachingMovementApproachExcitingDialogueEngagingTouring Author:Bill Ayers
“My craziest ideas come from cartoons. I approach music by taking that cartoon extreme and the real life extreme and finding somewhere in the middle. The animated element lures people in, but the real-life substance puts the nail in the coffin.” PeopleIdeasRealMiddleElementsFindingsApproachExtremesReal LifeSubstanceNailsCartoonAnimatedCoffinsLureCraziest Author:Busta Rhymes
“Of course, nobody's tearing my door down. If you're successful you're going to intimidate and scare off the people you'd like to spend time with. They're not going to approach you. And the ones who do are often there because you are a celebrity.” PeopleIfsCoursesSuccessfulDoorsApproachScareEnd TimesSpend TimeIntimidating Author:Betty White
“It is unquestionably true that the investment companies have their money more conventionally invested than we do. To many people conventionality is indistinguishable from conservatism. In my view, this represents erroneous thinking. Neither a conventional nor an unconventional approach, per se, is conservative.” PeopleThinkingViewsCompanyApproachInvestmentConservativeConventionalConservatismUnconventionalConventionality Author:Warren Buffett
“The argument culture urges us to approach the world-and the people in it-in an adversarial frame of mind. It rests on the assumption that opposition is the best way to get anything done: Conflict and opposition are as necessary as cooperation and agreement, but the scale is off balance, with conflict and opposition over-weighted.” PeopleWorldWayMindDoneCultureBalanceConflictApproachArgumentScalesBest WayAssumptionOppositionUrgesAgreementCooperationFrame Of Mind Author:Deborah Tannen
“If you didn't know better, you might have thought in 2003 and 2004 that U.S. government strategy was being set by people trying to make enemies rather than friends in the Arab-Islamic world. And if you didn't know better, you might think that the Chinese government's approach to the Olympics is being set by people trying to make the country look bad.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWorldTryingLooksCountryGovernmentMightEnemyApproachStrategyChineseIslamicOlympicsChinese Government Author:James Fallows
“Stephen Shadley is a great collaborator. Over the years I've seen him work with a wide variety of clients and stylistic approaches. He listens to people in a way that makes them feel like they're part of the process. Steve is an inspiration on all fronts, and, believe me, that's a rare quality.” PeopleWayFeelsYearsBelieveInspirationProcessQualityFrontsApproachWideVarietyBelieve In MeClientsCollaborators Author:Diane Keaton
“I think I started to approach time in a different way after the accident. Before I was more willing to give my time to people and things that I wasn't as interested in because somehow I allowed myself to be brainwashed into being forced to work with other people or on other projects that I had no interest in. So simply, the accident gave me the opportunity to do what I really wanted to do.” PeopleThinkingWayGivingDifferentWantedOpportunityInterestWillingProjectsApproachAccidentsDifferent WaysMy TimeBrainwashed Author:Kanye West
“People tell me I'm a comedian, but I don't approach acting from that perspective. I do know that everything in life has to do with your timing and perception. You have to be comfortable with the rhythm that you're in. You can't just jump into a fast rhythm if yours is slow. You might have to pick up the pace but in your own particular way. It has to do with personality, too.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayMightActingParticularPerspectivePersonalityComfortablePerceptionApproachPicksRhythmComedianPaceTiming Author:Mike Tyson
“Mindfulness is the key to everything, and this is especially true when one approaches the cultural portal known as "middle age." This is when people mindlessly believe that it's normal to get diseases and start to fall apart. But the truth is that midlife is the time when people need to wake up and be far more mindful about their everyday habits and thinking patterns.” PeopleThinkingNeedsBelieveAgeFallKnownMiddleKeysHabitTruth IsDiseaseNormalApproachMindfulnessWake UpEverydayPatternsFalling ApartMiddle AgesPortalMidlife Author:Christiane Northrup
“I started my professional career before the blogosphere existed in any sort of meaningful way. I think that my approach as a writer was certainly freer because I wasn't worried, I didn't have commenters on me right from the get-go. I didn't have this instant-reaction culture that young writers have to deal with now. I had different things - I was listed in the phone book and people would look me up and call me and yell at me, but that was about as bad as it got.” PeopleThinkingWayLooksBookDifferentYoungCultureDealsCareersApproachPhonesMeaningfulReactionsWorriedInstantDifferent ThingsCall MeYoung WritersProfessional Career Author:Meghan Daum
“With the Holocaust - I wonder if a lot of Jewish writers of my generation have felt this way - it feels really intimidating to approach it. I feel like so many writers who have either lived through it firsthand or were part of that generation where they were closer to the people who were in it have written so beautifully about it, so there's no lack of great books about it” PeopleIfsWayFeelsBookFeltWonderWrittenGenerationsApproachHolocaustIntimidatingMy GenerationGreat Book Author:Molly Antopol
“My approach to writing and recording now is pretty much the same as when I started. Except now I worry even less about what people will think of what I made. And I am not drunk.” PeopleThinkingWritingMadeWorryApproachDrunk Author:Erin McKeown
“Hollywood is definitely now embracing a more natural approach to beauty. Staying "youthful-looking" is old news. The ubiquitous term "anti-aging" has become meaningless. Women today want to look like a more revitalized version of themselves. The bottom line is we all want to be natural. I am seeing an increasing number of people who want to match the products they use every day to a more natural, healthy lifestyle.” PeopleWantLooksUseTodayTermNaturalLinesNumbersSeeingProductsHealthyApproachNewsHollywoodAgingBottomLifestyleVersionsStayingMeaninglessBottom LineHealthy LifestyleOld News Author:Sophie Heyman Uliano
“As I said in my State of the Union address ensuring the security of the United States and the safety of our people demands a smart, patient and disciplined approach to the world.” PeopleWorldSaidStatesUnitedUnited StatesSecurityDemandApproachSmartSafetyUnionsPatientAddresses Author:Barack Obama
“Goal setting is fine if you want to be the warrior archetype. These people are setting goals constantly and trying to get someplace else. They say, "If you don't know where you are going, then you won't know when you get there." When you get to a higher level of consciousness, though, when you get into a spiritual approach to life, you are not trying to get someplace else, because you never can get it done. You never are going to get there. Instead, what you want to do is get to a place where you are at peace. You are connected to God.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantTryingDoneSpiritualGoalLevelsConsciousnessFineHigherApproachConnectedWhat You WantSettingSettingsWarriorWhere You AreSetting GoalsHigher LevelGet It DoneArchetypeWhere You Are Going Author:Wayne Dyer
“I tried to get the word out to people who are information hubs in their communities, because they could propagate the call quickly. One challenge is that breaking science fiction means, well, breaking science fiction. Many communities of colour have a different approach to narratives of science.” PeopleWellsMeanDifferentCommunityChallengesFictionInformationApproachScience FictionNarrativeColourHubDifferent Approach Author:Nalo Hopkinson
“Since then, my approach to all things spiritual is rather cynical you could say. When somebody present something to me as spiritual, my first instinct is to be cynical and think, "oh yeah, one of those again." You see so much of it see in "spiritual culture" and people get very excited about it. It's all very "hoo haw."” PeopleThinkingFirstsSpiritualCultureApproachAll ThingsYeahInstinctExcitedCynical Author:Brad Warner
“I think a lot of people trying to follow Buddhism these days are getting confused about sex and they don't understand what's going on. They've been exposed to a contemporary Christian idea that sex itself is evil and bad, which I'm not so sure was Jesus' idea. For me, the Buddhist approach isn't that sex itself is evil or bad but that sex is neutral. It's the way you do it that can problematic.” PeopleThinkingWayTryingIdeasChristianEvilJesusSexBuddhismApproachContemporaryBuddhistThese DaysConfusedExposedContemporary Christian Author:Brad Warner
“Most fans probably wouldn't understand that because they're not in bands, but when there's too many cooks in the kitchen it can really ruin things, it can destroy a band. So for me and Burt to approach it as just two guys it makes things a lot easier. This may sound selfish but it was less people we had to share our ideas with so there was less interference.” PeopleMayTwoIdeasGuySoundShareFansEasierBandApproachSelfishRuinsCooksKitchenInterferenceTwo GuysCooks In The Kitchen Author:Dino Cazares
“Lyndon Johnson (with Abraham Lincoln close behind). Johnson was able to get things done, to read other people, and to adjust his own approach accordingly. One of the reasons he has so fascinated biographer Robert Caro over the years is Johnson's consummate skill in acquiring and using influence.” PeopleYearsReasonDoneAbleBehindsInfluenceSkillsApproachFascinatedJohnsonAbrahamThings DoneBiographers Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“If you go around a time when you're hungry, around mealtime, then you have a desperate search to find something to eat and you have this interplay between approach and avoidance. You go in a place, you smell, if it doesn't smell so good you go to the next place, you look at all the people, they're happily eating, and then you choose that place. So having to reconnoiter, having to go on a kind of treasure hunt for food is one of my favorite things.” PeopleIfsLooksKindNextGoes OnApproachEatingMy FavoriteSmellTreasureHungryDesperateYou ChooseHuntsAvoidanceFavorites ThingsTreasure Hunt Author:Robert Sietsema
“People deserve to have their experiences understood in a genuine bio-psycho-social approach. All too often, this is ignored in favor of what is a very reductionist, bio-medical, model.” PeopleSocialApproachModelsUnderstoodDeserveMedicalFavorsGenuineIgnoredPsychoBios Author:Peter Kinderman
“They thought we were just basically keeping ourselves underground on purpose. And it was just strange for people to approach music that way. And for rap, trying to get recognition, and be seen as a regular form of music like anything else. I mean, the Soul, R&B, Rock 'N Roll, they would dis the hell out of rap when it first came out.” PeopleWayTryingFirstsMeanSoulFormPurposeHellRocksStrangeApproachRapRecognitionRock N Roll Author:Ice Cube
“It's risky to allow radiation to constantly go up into the atmosphere. The main criticism of this approach of entombing it is that it would cost too much, involve too many resources and people. But think of the cost of having all the crops impounded by the government, all the milk being thrown into the river, people's livelihoods destroyed.” PeopleThinkingGovernmentToo MuchCostApproachResourcesRiversCriticismDestroyedAtmosphereThrownMilkRadiationCropsLivelihood Author:Michio Kaku
“My songwriting and overall approach to music go beyond just good singing and strong musicality - I want people, now more so than ever, to feel something and be moved somehow by the content I create.” PeopleWantFeelsStrongApproachSingingMovedSongwritingMusicality Author:Rayvon Owen
“It's clear that North took some original steps in that direction, but Hall probably had the most complete approach and should get the most credit. But for Hall, unfortunately, the data are all impressionistic - what people said. None of his machinery survived. His patents were all lost in the Patent Office fire.” PeopleShouldSaidLostStepsClearFireOfficeApproachOriginalsCreditDataHallsSurvivedMachineryPatents Author:Charles R. Morris
“If you want to make something that's aggressive and challenging and peculiar and strange and trying to step outside of a traditional approach, some people aren't going to like it.” PeopleIfsWantTryingChallengesStepsStrangeApproachTraditionalAggressivePeculiar Author:Casey Spooner
“You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach.” PeopleIfsWantAbleEnergyApproachGasEmissionsGreenhousesGreenhouse Gases Author:Ramez Naam
“I think therapeutic spirituality has largely been a help in the modern world. So the fact that people can approach religion with practical needs.” PeopleThinkingWorldNeedsFactsHelpingSpiritualityModernApproachPracticalsModern WorldTherapeutic Author:Mitch Horowitz
“There are some people in occult history who warned against using the Ouija Board, who said: "This is a dangerous door to the unconscious. Don't approach this thing."” PeopleSaidDoorsDangerousApproachBoardsUnconsciousOccultOuija Board Author:Mitch Horowitz
“I'd like to describe a sort of life 20 years ago as being a fried egg. There was a yolk and a white and the white was maybe work, and the yolk was life. Today, it's more of an omelet. It's more mixed and it's more interspersed and I think that that's a more interesting state of being and for some people, they'll say well I want the crisp, fried egg approach to life.” PeopleThinkingWantYearsWellsStatesTodayWhiteInterestingApproachYears AgoEggsCrispsOmelets Author:Nicholas Negroponte
“I'm not alone in having obese people in my circle and in my family. I have loved morbidly obese people, and I don't approach obesity with revulsion or judgment but with empathy and compassion.” PeopleCompassionJudgmentApproachEmpathyMy FamilyCirclesNot AloneObesityObeseRevulsionCompassion And Empathy Author:Lori Lansens
“I don't know if I approach choice any differently than the sighted people do, but what I am very cognizant of is that choice does have limits and because of that I really try to take advantage of the domains in which I do have choice.” PeopleIfsKnowsTryingDoeChoicesLimitsApproachAdvantageDomainCognizant Author:Sheena Iyengar
“I try to emulate his approach of really get the most out of people by allowing them to experiment and certainly allowing people to make mistakes.” PeopleTryingMistakeApproachExperimentsMaking MistakesAllowingEmulate Author:Brian Henson
“People are considered pure of heart when they do not approach power and pomp; but those who can be near without being affected are the purest of all. People are considered high-minded when they do not know how to plot and contrive; but those who know how yet do not do so are the highest of all.” PeopleKnowsHeartKnow HowPureApproachHighestPlotTaoismAffected Author:Zicheng Hong