Top 593 Approaching Quotes & Sayings

Censorship, in my opinion, is a stupid and shallow way of approaching the solution to any problem.

Making someone happy is perhaps the humblest way of approaching happiness.

The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

What are more delightful than one's emotions when approaching a trout stream for the initial cast?

We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.

There is a huge fan base for the Black Panther comic and for Marvel as a whole. And I think there is great anticipation across the board for the movie. I think that's how Marvel is approaching it and I know that's how I'm approaching it.

Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.

I'm approaching 70. Unfortunately, from the wrong direction.

The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.

I got a lot of film companies approaching me to write some songs for their films.

A part of my job, when I'm playing a character and approaching a role, is to rationalize and to not judge whatsoever.

The Age of Northeast Asia is fast approaching.

It's very important that I'm approaching a character that I've either not played before, or I can give it a different take.

Art is something special because it can come up with a way of approaching the truth that is a little to the side.

You find yourself approaching middle age, playing another scuzzy rock club.

Another way of approaching the thing is to consider it unnamed, unnameable.

I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.

That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest.

We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson.

Every manager has their own way of approaching games.

I've literally become comfortable with approaching whatever style of music at any time.

Our daughter was born in Chicago, and she's already showing it. The temperature has to be approaching zero for her to wear a hat.

Are you an angel that approaching you should be so terrifying?

Time and time again when I talk to individuals about approaching love with will and intentionality, I hear the fear expressed that this will bring an end to romance. This is simply not so. Approaching romantic love from foundation of care, knowledge, and respect actually intensifies romance

The work of cultivating experiences called "peak experiences" or "mystic moments" or "breakthroughs" until they become more accessible is part of the essential nature of genuine spiritual discipline. These are moments, at the very least, of approaching the experiential verification that there does exist something Higher within and perhaps also outside of ourselves. Moments at the very least of approaching what the religions call God.

Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.

I'm in favor of approaching both the night and the day with intention.

He [Barack Obama] is been boffo at fundraising - 220 fundraisers, and he raised something approaching $1 billion.

Approaching people looking for something in return isn't a relationship, it's a transaction.

I started The McCoys in 1962, so I'm approaching my 40th year in the entertainment business.

I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.

People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Being out of the mainstream is entirely consistent with the way Donald Trump is approaching his presidency.

For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault.

I think game theory creates ideas that are important in solving and approaching conflict in general.

Now that I have conquered social anxiety disorder, I find pleasure in fans approaching me.

Trying to identify and understand, as opposed to judging, is very important for me, in approaching characters.

Xs were used because there was no mass literacy - a state we are rapidly approaching once more.

I was a fan once, and I remember what it was like approaching footballers for their autographs. I used to get starstruck a lot of the time.

If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.

The person is only a phenomenon, the principle is behind it. Thus from both sides, simultaneously, we find the breaking down of personalities and the approach towards principles, the Personal God approaching the Impersonal, the personal man approaching the Impersonal Man.

Opera contains music that reflects a culture of poetry and aesthetic. Spirituals are no different. What separates a spiritual for me is that I also happen to love Jesus. When I'm approaching these songs, I'm not approaching them like Mozart. I see my faith and the struggle of my ancestors and of a people seeking freedom beside what these songs are going to be in terms of their arrangement and delivery.

Typically, highway bridges have about 50 years. But over in England, they have iron bridges approaching 250 years. In France, there are Roman aqueducts that are approaching 2,000 years old. So a bridge can last a very long time if it's built properly in the first place and then maintained properly.

People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy

If we have a strength, it is in recognizing when we are operating well within our circle of competence and when we are approaching the perimeter.

But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it

The end of the world is approaching, maybe by the year 2010.

The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.

Hollywood itself is a little intimidating and exciting. There's definitely a way to go about approaching it.

I have no qualms approaching directors who I know will help me grow as an actor.

Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.

But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it.

Whenever you're confronted with a tough work situation, stop for a second and try to honestly answer this question: Am I approaching this emotionally or am I approaching this professionally?

My last point about getting started as a writer: do something first, good or bad, successful or not, and write it up before approaching an editor. The best introduction to an editor is your own written work, published or not. I traveled across Siberia on my own money before ever approaching an editor; I wrote my first book, Siberian Dawn, without knowing a single editor, with no idea of how to get it published. I had to risk my life on the Congo before selling my first magazine story. If the rebel spirit dwells within you, you won't wait for an invitation, you'll invade and take no hostages.

If you are approaching the music with more reverence than the original guys invested into it, you are effectively doing it a disservice.

Even though it was six o'clock, there was no sense of approaching dawn.

Many directors are approaching me with good scripts. I will concentrate on production and music.