Quotes about Approach

You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

Every approach unto God by ardent love and delight is transfiguring. And it acts itself continually by,—(1.) Contemplation; (2.) Admiration; and, (3.) Delight in obedience.

As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

The danger never lies in a technique in itself, but solely in the spirit in which the technique is applied and handled.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

Attitudes are more important than facts.

Attitudes are more important than facts." That is worth repeating until its truth grips you. Any fact facing us, however difficult, even seemingly hopeless, is not so important as our attitude toward that fact. How you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You may permit a fact to overwhelm you mentally before you start to deal with it actually. On the other hand, a confident and optimistic thought pattern can modify or overcome the fact altogether.

Attitudes are more important than facts." That is worth repeating until its truth grips you.

The Master replied, "The person who would wrestle a tiger bare-handed or march across the Yellow River,106 and who would go to his death without regret—this person I would not take along. It would have to be someone who would approach any situation with trepidation, and who would be fond of planning with an eye to success.

It is easier for most of us to affirm positive behavior than to deal with negative behavior in a positive way.