“My greatest fear in working is always the end. Lately I have taken to tricking myself into finishing by leaving a hole in the middle somewhere, then stitching the two pieces together - the Union Pacific approach.” TwoEndsTogetherArtistTakenPiecesMiddleApproachUnionsLeavingHolesFinishingPacificGreatest Fear Book:Push Comes to Shove Source: Push Comes to Shove
“The script is like music to me. I approach it like it's a musical piece and I hear how it's supposed to sound when people say the words. There's rhythms and there's intonations and things, and so, when somebody comes in and hits the notes that I hear, I go okay. Or, they come close enough, and then I'll say "Well how about you try it like this?" and if they have a good ear and they can pick it up, then I think okay, they've got it.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingWellsEnoughSoundPiecesApproachPicksOkayEarsNotesMusicalScriptsRhythmIntonation Author:Rob Reiner
“Walt had a seat-of-the-pants approach on what he wanted musically. We kind of 'read' the boss and had a very high batting average, but there were occasions when he felt we had just written the wrong piece for the situation he wanted. We invariably listened to what he wanted - he was very descriptive in what he wanted and we could read him. We'd go back to the drawing board and work out what he wanted. He was a great inspiration, but a tough taskmaster.” KindInspirationWantedFeltSituationPiecesWrittenApproachToughAverageWork OutDrawingOccasionsBoardsSeatsBossPantsWaltBatting Author:Richard Sherman
“My approach is simple. It is nothing other than what I am thinking at the time I make each piece of clothing, whether I think it is strong and beautiful. The result is something that other people decide.” PeopleThinkingBeautifulStrongSimpleResultsPiecesApproachClothings Author:Rei Kawakubo
“I love the balls-to-the-walls rule-breaking approach the Beatles had in the studio (which I emulate), although I don't try to make my songs "sound" like their songs. But every time I crank a knob of some piece of equipment, or plug an instrument into the "wrong" amp/effect, I am channeling the Beatles.” TryingSongSoundPiecesEffectsWallApproachBallsInstrumentsStudiosEquipmentEmulateChannelingPlugsCrankKnobs Author:Alan Cohen
“I try not to think retrospectively. It's important, as an artist, to look forward, always. I do try to take work that involves some challenge. If you approach a piece of work and you're going, "Yeah, yeah, I can do that," then that's kind of a red flag.” IfsThinkingTryingLooksKindI CanImportantArtistCan DoChallengesPiecesApproachRedYeahFlagsRed Flags Author:Cillian Murphy
“Frame is a good enough piece of software that there are actually rewards to taking an intelligent and formal approach to your problem. But if you want to be stupid, you can think of Frame as a version of Microsoft Word with most of the bugs taken out.” IfsThinkingWantEnoughProblemTakenPiecesStupidApproachIntelligentRewardsVersionsGood EnoughSoftwareFormalBugsMicrosoftMicrosoft Word Author:Philip Greenspun
“Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano.” WritingPiecesApproachTraditionalPiano Author:Bill Bruford
“Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach which the latest term for this in the most advanced form is what's called Object Oriented Programming.” FormTermPiecesWrittenObjectsApproachTricksProgrammingSoftwareComponentsRewriting Author:Bill Gates