Approaches Quotations

Most of the planet's terrestrial surfaces are visually accessible through video cameras and satellite imagery, if not physically within reach. Even the approaches to Mount Everest are now littered with human debris. One can drive to Timbuktu, which for centuries was synonymous with inaccessibility.

As winter approaches - bringing cold weather and family drama - we crave page-turners, books made for long nights and tryptophan-induced sloth.

The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation.

As the BBC approaches the final phase of decisions about its future, it will be important for those involved to be established in post and ready to take responsibility for implementation of the outcome.

The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly institutions in the country. Yes, conservative: Economists joke that their discipline advances one funeral at a time, but many fields must wait for wholesale generational turnover before new approaches take hold.

Approaching life through '40 Chances' gives reasons to hope and actions to take, and it offers fresh approaches that our world desperately needs.

The closer Iraq approaches freedom and democracy, the more impediments and barriers the terrorists will erect.

I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.

There are some kinds of Christianity that insist you have to believe literally in doctrine. The Gnostic gospels open out the complexity and multiplicity of approaches to this. If you think the story of the virgin birth is mistranslated, for instance, it doesn't mean you have to throw out the whole thing.

So I've learned in the past, if a company approaches me and they want something like this, or something like that that I've done and I turn them down, they're going to do it anyhow.

My father is just getting better and better, and that speaks so well of the way he approaches the work.

Second, the President's popularity has not translated into increased support for the Republican party or for the policies and approaches on domestic policy championed by the President.

The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don't tell me jokes - I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provoke to get a reaction.

It is a curious historical fact that modern quantum mechanics began with two quite different mathematical formulations: the differential equation of Schroedinger and the matrix algebra of Heisenberg. The two apparently dissimilar approaches were proved to be mathematically equivalent.

The United States government approaches patient choice in medication as Singapore does free speech: its pronouncements sound reasonable and tolerant until you threaten its prerogatives.

I guess law was always interesting to me because you deal with constants. I like to deal with constants, abstracts, constants and reason and ration, rational approaches to things. I don't know, I never really thought why I wanted to study law. But if you ask me whether I would do it again, absolutely.

We were called, male and female, to do great works with separate approaches and separate assignments.

People have all kinds of approaches when they come up to me. Some of them are so nervous: 'You know, Mr. Cosby, you are my biggest fan!' I am? Some of them even claim that I raised them.

We're going to go work on our short game when we get back, and our approaches to the green. I think that's where we're losing strokes.

We found exceptional, innovative approaches to ensuring rapid treatment of patients, ... We used management techniques and flow charts to define achievable times for each step.

With the participation of a wide range of policymakers -- from Margaret Thatcher to Jimmy Carter to Condoleezza Rice -- it has helped lay the groundwork for new approaches to national and world issues,

We're still in the stage where different business models and technological approaches are being tested out.

We're still in a range especially in euro/dollar between $1.17-$1.20 and any time it approaches the extreme ends of that range, the market corrects.

We're seeing a grand experiment under way now. Many open-source project teams are trying different approaches to monetizing their projects.

When you're trying to find that line between are you doing comedy, are you doing drama, what are you doing, Martin, for me, anchors it very often, because he approaches it from such just a pure acting standpoint.

What we missed with Williams is the total integration of both companies to form one homogenous team, ... We made several approaches to achieve that but apparently the corporate culture and the way to run the business is different.

We decided to let the songs determine where the record was going to go. I had written only a couple of songs before, but we decided just to go with our gut and try different approaches to everything.

When I have sat at home with this God-given talent for music for a long time, somebody approaches me out of the blue and asks me to play for them. It's almost as though there's a force somewhere which is saying 'no sittin' around, out you go!

When the market is good, you have a lot of creative approaches to real estate. But, I have been in the business for 34 years, and you see a lot of peaks and valleys.

The pitches were different, the approaches were different. The pitch today was in a different place than last night. As a hitter, you have to understand that every at-bat is different. If not, you can go up there trying to do too much.

There are many approaches, thousands of approaches out there can help you stop smoking. There's the gum, there's the patch. But what's important is what's going to work for you. And I think you and your physician, having a conversation about that, can provide the best results,

Luke has matured. His outlook has changed. He approaches the sport from a different point of view now. He was so aggressive. He'd come out like a maniac. Now he's smarter, more calculated.

Life, as he conceived of it, was a long decline from a glorious past, and if a reader approaches a newspaper in that spirit, he can find much to confirm him in his belief, particularly if he has never examined any short period of the past in day-to-day detail.

Look, what really matters is how people are going to see his policies over the long haul. Over the long haul, they are going to see this administration as one that is committed to using new technology and new innovative approaches to clean the air, clean the water and clean the land.

She approaches the problem of our country with all the one-dimensional subtlety of a comic strip.

One thing that I don't like about some human rights approaches is that they rest on the notion of negative liberties. Some people take it that rights they have secured from the state means the state has to keep its hands off (on that issue).

Now, things are different. Mike admits he has a lot to prove. There has been a definite change to the way he approaches the game at this time in his life. He cares about the game and has come back with a great work ethic to lead this team. Whether he wears the 'C' or not, he is the face of this team and that means a lot to him. He wants that responsibility.

Policymakers would be wise to reconsider the wisdom of current sentencing and drug policies, both to avoid expensive incarceration costs and to invest in more productive prevention and treatment approaches to crime,

One of the biggest barriers research and academic institutions face is the ability to get discoveries made in the lab into clinical testing. The new Exploratory IND guidance emphasizes the flexibility available to researchers when conducting early clinical testing of these cutting-edge treatments. As we enter the era of personalized medicine, these exploratory approaches enable scientists to take full advantage of new technologies to target the development of more individualized therapies.

Catholics, in their ecumenical work, must assuredly be concerned for their separated brethren, praying for them, keeping them informed about the Church, making the first approaches toward them. But their primary duty is to make a careful and honest appraisal of whatever needs to be done or renewed in the Catholic household itself, in order that its life may bear witness more clearly and faithfully to the teachings and institutions which have come to it from Christ through the Apostles.

I founded Samasource because I was frustrated by traditional approaches to poverty alleviation. Even those approaches focused on jobs often equip poor people with skills for which there is little market demand.

Former approaches may not work in this set of circumstances, ... We may have to think outside the box. We may want to create some overarching entity to direct the efforts." ()

Frequently, they will benefit from these approaches without significant risks such as side effects.

I emphasized to members of the European community that I continue to be as optimistic as the president that, working constructively with our friends and allies through international processes, we can develop technologies, market-based incentives and other innovative approaches to global climate change.

If the total cost of the hurricane recovery effort approaches $200 billion, as some have suggested, that would amount to every family in the country paying about $2,500. The last thing we need to do would be to saddle taxpayers with a tax increase,

If the cell were a forest, we can now pull out individual trees to study them. We are using virtual reality approaches as they are being developed for the computer gaming industry. Nonetheless, what we eventually want to do is to be able to walk into the forest and explore it in that way.

If someone approaches you on the street or on the subway, and flatters you by saying, 'You've got the look that we are looking for,' hold on to your purse strings. You may be on your way to being a victim, not playing a role or posing for pictures.

I always found it helped if my partner and I had similar approaches and attitudes to our work, but we didn't need to be in love!

He won't be changed, the way he approaches the game and his teammates. He has too much character to let long-term security affect the way he goes about his business. He puts the price of winning above the price of his own bank account.

He has a very live personality that very positively impacts a football team. This is a physical game. If you can't watch the way he plays and have admiration for the pounding he absorbs in a football game and appreciate the way he approaches his performance, then you should be playing something else.

This wasn't a no-logging-versus-lots-of-logging kind of battle. It was people asking them to take some new, smarter approaches to logging. We're saying, do it smarter. Don't go into these places that shouldn't be logged, like right next to a salmon stream.

There is a disconnect between the investment we're making in discovering treatments and the result in practical treatments that are reaching patients. We think that there are scientific approaches we could be taking that would help us learn more about drugs in a shorter time and for less cost.

What I'm most concerned about is not necessarily his leadership or emotional state as he approaches the game. If he does that, he'll manage the game just fine.

Today, I have signed a 'platinum chip' world-class champion whose persona transcends sports and approaches folklore in the Philippines. I feel privileged that Manny has chosen me as his promoter.

There is an ongoing conflict between 'whole organism' and 'molecular' approaches to studying insects. Friction has evolved because molecular biology is taking over a tremendous amount of resources, including funding and space within universities.

How we understand our own selves and how we work with our DNA software has implications that will affect everything from vaccine development to new approaches to antibiotics, new sources of food, new sources of chemicals, even potentially new sources of energy.

He certainly has the pace and is professional in the way he approaches his racing.

Guys with those kinds of approaches are very difficult to pitch to.

I would urge Presidents and Prime Ministers to make this WRI report and the findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment indispensable parts of their reading. I am sure that the conclusions will suggest to them, as they do to me, fresh, imaginative, sensible and truly sustainable approaches to the pressing development issues of the day,

Just watching him and how he approaches the game and how he handles the pitchers, it really helps me out just to watch him and see how he goes about it.

Joe approaches modern agriculture with the attitude and passion that surrounds a successful family farmer.

I talked to different communities, who treated me warmly, and guided me with approaches to the problem.

I think that he approaches government differently than perhaps his predecessors, but I don't think it has anything to do with the White House, per se, but his management style.

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

I think we have a patchwork right now of trying to respond to the latest threat that we hear about. The system is not a system yet in this country. It is a patchwork of different approaches to security. We're playing catch-up.

I thought our kids really had good approaches at the plate against some pretty good Kentucky pitching. I was proud of the way our kids played.

I think they are showing a greater willingness to look for new suggestions, new ideas, new approaches than at any time in the presidency. I think they realize the larger system has failed: They are not where they want to be on Iraq; the first week after Katrina was an absolute failure.

I think there's a sense that as the next hurricane season approaches quickly, there needs to be some good, solid language in place so we can maximize the local contractors.

Just as a flower gives out its fragrance to whomsoever approaches our uses it, so love from within us radiates towards everybody and manifests as spontaneous service.

Large market daily newspapers are well-served with the existing Sunday magazines, but weekly and small market dailies require fundamentally different approaches for editorial content, production and distribution. We are focusing our efforts solely on these markets.

Our kids came out tonight, competed and enjoyed the moment and got after it. I thought we played the whole game well. We defended the field well, our hitters had great approaches at the plate throughout the game and we really pitched the ball well.

Our client-focused culture will remain the same, ... We're a close member of many of our clients' teams. They count on us for ideas, solutions and creative approaches to their marketing communications and corporate affairs challenges. We believe supporting our employees' growth and professional development is critical to our clients' success.

Our people don't usually need to come in the home so there's usually not a need for us to be doing that. We don't collect money in the field so if anybody approaches the house or approaches you with those kind of stories be sure to be a little skeptical.

President Chen's latest policy initiative will only increase cross-Strait tensions. The tax season approaches and this will draw liquidity away as retail investors sell.

Our recommendation is one (social worker) to every 400 (students), but no state yet approaches that.

Partial approaches to donations only causes more burdens.

Our offense has a nice pace, a nice feel right now. We're being aggressive when we have to, being patient when we have to. Good balance up and down the lineup, good approaches at the plate.

Such understanding is required for researchers to develop new and much-needed approaches to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases, such as diabetes, bipolar disorder, cancer and many others.

Sure. I expect it to be ongoing. I guess we could take two approaches which is, make it simple, or we can keep trying to build the way we want to play and get the players to continue practicing it and develop confidence in it and kind of go from there.

Names that are broad, like Food.com, have no value unless you create meaning underneath them. It approaches the generic and defines what you do. It has a short-term advantage but in the long run limits you.

Like with any long-term plan, I had to make reservations. My immediate goal for the flight would be to study Russian and American engineering approaches and to learn from the experience.

I think Roger is one of the fiercest competitors I've seen, ... It reflects in the way he approaches his job and the way he carries himself on the mound. When he goes out there, his teammates know he's going to do everything in his power to help them win a ballgame.

I think, on balance, most Missourians agree with the approaches that the legislature and governor have taken to reform the Medicaid system while still providing a very generous benefit to low-income Missourians.

I think Morris has a fantastic zest for life. He's hit upon something, and that is this central question: 'I'm full of life now, but what do I see in the future? A slow, steady disintegration into paralysis. Do I go out while I'm on top, or do I want to hang around, inch by inch, watching myself decay and have my family watch me decay?' He approaches this subject with tremendous humor, and he's never depressing -- he's always way ahead of everybody else, and full of life. He's a fantastic character.

We've translated early information from genetic research into valuable medicines for HIV/AIDS, heart disease and the prevention of organ rejection. But these advances have only scratched the surface of possible revolutionary approaches to treat and cure diseases. Pfizer, the NIH and other public/private biomedical research interests have complementary missions greater than the sum of their parts. Our hope is that this public/private initiative will encourage a deeper collective understanding of the genetic factors of disease for major new therapeutic advances.

We've translated early information from genetic research into potentially valuable medicines for HIV/AIDS, heart disease, and prevention of organ rejection, but these advances have only scratched the surface of possible revolutionary approaches to treat and cure diseases. Pfizer, the NIH and other public/private biomedical research interests have complementary missions greater than the sum of their parts. Our hope is that this public/private initiative will encourage a deeper collective understanding of the genetic factors of disease, for major new therapeutic advances.

We've talked to a number of intermediaries about potential approaches to dealing with the maturing debt, but we don't have a firm arrangement with anybody and we don't have any programs that have been launched, ... Time is obviously not our friend and we're moving forward in finalizing our plans, but we have nothing launched yet.

We need new medical approaches to preventing and/or curing disease. We need new scientific approaches to generating, storing, and being more efficient with energy. Maybe we need more space exploration. Maybe we need more undersea exploration.

The $2.0 million less the cost of the studies might leave $1.5, $1.3 million. You might get the ramps for that, but if you get into reconstruction of that bridge and the approaches to bring them to standards for the next 30 to 40 years, that would could easily double the cost of construction.

The approaches to bridges are at the greatest risk of scouring from the storm surge. The National Guard is going to take a Hummer with satellite communications and drive all the way down to Mile Marker 0. They're just waiting for the winds to start dropping.

The approaches have been straightened out and smoothed so you don't have to hit bumps going up to it. The crossing itself was tearing the under-carriages of cars out. It was so bad,

That was probably my No. 2 reason for coming here, outside the talent that was around, ... I know Bill, I believe in him as a coach. I believe in the way he approaches things.

That's the way he approaches things, and that's why we were successful last year. He realizes that for us to go where we're trying to go ... he and his position are going to have to elevate their play. We snuck up on some folks a year ago, and that's not going to happen this year.

You just got to make the best of the situation. (Starting) doesn't really matter to me. Whatever is best for the team, that's the way that Montgomery approaches it and that's the way me and Adonal approach it.

well in excess of the four-to-one ratio the U.S. Supreme Court has suggested approaches the constitutional limit of such awards.

We don't harass them or own them. We just want to grow them. Even without an equity position, we can have a similar impact as an equity investor in that we do pursue long-term relations with suppliers because we know those lead to innovative approaches to our supply situations.

We believe these workshops are timely and necessary to inform government agencies, businesses, landowners, home-owners and community associations on the latest approaches to protecting our precious coastal resources.

We have two approaches in our research - the empirical model and the mechanistic model. The empirical model generates life prediction from accelerated degradation test data, while the mechanistic model relates life prediction to changes in battery materials. Our approach provides an independent measure of battery life so we don't have to rely on what battery manufacturers tell us.

Yeah, it was pretty exceptional. Since the NCAA era, to my knowledge, there's nothing that approaches that.

We need joint integrated approaches to battlefield challenges. We need weapon systems capable of producing the precise and timely destruction of enemy targets.