Approach Quotes - page 8

I never shot on sets, but if I was traveling somewhere or on location, I would always have my camera, and I'd always be - it's that kind of fly on the wall approach to photography, though. I don't engage the subject. I like to sneak around, skulk about in the dark. (Jessica Lange)
You are spending millions and millions of dollars of other peoples money when you make a movie. You have to at least approach it in a way where you can see how you can make that money back for the people who are investing. View quote
Duncan Jones
I don't plan to take a formal, cold approach with my children, but I expect a lot. I don't want my children to view me as their best friend. I want to be their mom. View quote
Ivanka Trump
But it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of the film, because the film is really about the soul of Schubert and the soul of Bach. View quote
Isabelle Huppert
We're constantly getting these messages to mind our own business and look the other way if we want to be well liked, to not tell the truth or speak our mind or say anything too intense. Well, I'm telling you here that this approach not only makes you party to other people's crimes against themselves but is a prescription for mediocrity and delusion. View quote
Kelly Cutrone
As you embrace the process-oriented approach described in The Practicing Mind, you'll achieve better results in any endeavor. View quote
Michael J. Gelb
A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason. View quote
Harold Geneen
I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh. View quote
Alberto Sordi
I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone. View quote
William Weld
I have a way of filming things and staging them and designing sets. There were times when I thought I should change my approach, but in fact, this is what I like to do. It's sort of like my handwriting as a movie director. And somewhere along the way, I think I've made the decision: I'm going to write in my own handwriting. View quote
Wes Anderson
Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that ‘language' themselves (just as musicians learn a more technical musical language than the layman needs). Social scientists who want to work with visual materials will have to learn to approach them in this more studious and time-consuming way. (Howard S. Becker)
Nearer the gods no mortal may approach. View quote
Edmond Halley
I always say I have a Socratic approach to most things that I do. I pummel people with questions, because I need to know what they're thinking, what they're trying to achieve, what they believe the final outcome is going to be. View quote
Tim Gunn
I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach. View quote
Bill Condon
Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal.... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain. View quote
K. Pattabhi Jois
Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach. View quote
Donald Pleasence
A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best. View quote
Raymond Carver
I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it. View quote
Sam Raimi
When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting is about. View quote
Harry Stack Sullivan
My approach has always been rather sensual. View quote
Jil Sander
I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all. (Alexander Downer)
Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur. View quote
Alfred Eisenstaedt
I like taking a path into new country, and I always take the darker path. Not because it's dark, but because there's a secret there that you can share when you get out. That's what I liked as a kid. That's how I approach my work. With a face like mine, it's lucky I have a heart that likes that. View quote
Amanda Plummer
I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken. View quote
Andy Hertzfeld
One game, one pitch can change everything for a hitter. The way I like to approach it is that every at-bat is its own unique opportunity to go out there and do something really good. View quote
Anthony Rizzo