“It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a general atmosphere of animosity and contention that has taken over our public discourse.” IfsTwoWarProblemFightingSidesTakenApproachMetaphorTendenciesAtmosphereDiscourseHeadlinesTwo SidesContentionUsing MeAnimosityPublic Discourse Author:Deborah Tannen
“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 UPA government is non-serious, it has taken the people for granted & it is not bothered about the youth. Their approach shows lack of faith in democracy. Our goal is to win the trust of the people & give dignity to them.” PeopleGivingShowsGovernmentPoliticsWinningGoalDemocracyTakenYouthSeriousApproachDignityIndiaGrantedBotheredLack Of FaithNot Bothered Author:Narendra Modi
“I wrote Normal Life using concepts that have been helpful to me, and hoping to offer those as accessible tools for thinking differently about the pitfalls trans resistance faces, in particular the temptation to focus on legal equality and the limitations of that approach, and the alternative approaches being taken by racial and economic justice focused trans activists.” ThinkingHas BeensFacesJusticeTakenFocusEconomicParticularOffersNormalApproachConceptsToolsFocusedResistanceTemptationAlternativesLimitationHelpfulActivistTransNormal LifePitfallsEconomic JusticeThinking Differently Author:Dean Spade
“We are internally related to everything, not [just] externally related. Consciousness is an internal relationship to the whole, we take in the whole, and we act toward the whole. Whatever we have taken in determines basically what we are. Wholeness is a kind of attitude or approach to the whole of life. If we can have a coherent approach to reality then reality will respond coherently to us.” IfsKindWholeRealityConsciousnessAttitudeTakenApproachDetermineRelatedInternalsWholeness Author:David Bohm
“Instead of thinking about building up my image or building up my brand or building up my career, I've turned it and taken the approach of focusing on what I can give instead of what I can get. It's been a very enjoyable process for me. That's more of a heart position that I've taken. It's been one of the greatest things I've ever done.” ThinkingGivingHeartI CanDoneProcessCareersTakenPositionBuildingApproachBrandsEnjoyableBuilding Up Author:Kelly Clark
“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