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"History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work."

--- A. J. P. Taylor

#Book #People #Approach

"The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind."

--- A. N. Wilson

#Approach #Mind

"How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography.""

--- Aaron Scharf

#Awareness #Approach #Visuals

"As photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on the right. Watch them grow large as they approach, group and regroup as you shift your position. Relationships gradually emerge and sometimes assert themselves with finality. And that's your picture."

--- Aaron Siskind

#Finality #Eye #Approach

"As applied to substance abuse, the cognitive approach helps individuals to come to grips with the problems leading to emotional distress and to gain a broader perspective on their reliance on drugs for pleasure and/or relief from discomfort."

--- Aaron T. Beck

#Abuse #Approach #Perspective

"All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry."

--- Abbott Lawrence Lowell

#Patterns #Achieve #Approach

"The other world is as to this like the east to the west. We cannot approach the one without turning away from the other."

--- Abdelkader El Djezairi

#Approach #World #West

"Approach or come: refers not to the physical act of coming, but to the mental attitude; the heart is mentioned for sincerity. When they sincerely promise not to fight against you, do not pursue them. Remember that if they had fought against you, your difficulties would have been increased. Their neutrality itself may be a great advantage to you. So long as you are satisfied that they are sincere and their acts support their declarations of peace with you, you should not consider yourself justified in pursuing them and warring against them."

--- Abdullah Yusuf Ali

#Promise #Fighting #Attitude

"The key thing in management is goal setting. In medicine, goal-based approach is particularly important. Management should be aimed at minimizing health damage and, with a high degree of correlation, at reducing mortality"

--- Abel Aganbegyan

#Mortality #Approach #Minimizing

"The spiritual aspect of my work has more to do with the sense that things in the world can be perceived and accepted as being in some respect alive. I try to approach everything that I photograph with this sense of wide-eyed awe."

--- Abelardo Morell

#Approach #Wide #World

"Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last."

--- Abraham Cowley

#Lasts #Approach #Time

"One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words. We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken. We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words - an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words - is an essential prerequisite for prayer. By the word of God the world was created."

--- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Our Time #Awareness #Prerequisites

"From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Finishers #Giants #Asia

"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Finishers #Answers #Approach

"The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit."

--- Abraham Maslow

#Justice #Justice Truth #Approach

"Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one is filled with a sense of hopelessness; in a year and possibly even a month, there is now more economic comment in the supposedly serious literature than survives from the whole of the thousand years commonly denominated as the Middle Ages ... anyone who claims to be familiar with it all is a confessing liar.' I believe that all physicists would subscribe to the same sentiments regarding their own professional literature. I do at any rate."

--- Abraham Pais

#Months #Familiar #Confessing

"It's pretty dangerous if you approach music trying to please other people."

--- Adam Anderson

#People #Please #Approach

"Verse 11. (They presented unto Him gifts). The people of the east never approach the presence of kings and great personages, without a present in their hands. The custom is often noticed in the Old Testament, and still prevails in the east, and in some of the newly discovered South Sea Islands."

--- Adam Clarke

#People #Approach #Testament

"I think most importantly the reason we've been on the upswing is Ring of Honor has been very smart about the speed of its growth. ROH is not a company that says ok we're going to throw all this money in and let's just go for it. ROH has the business approach of slow but steady."

--- Adam Cole

#Thinking #Reason #Very Smart

"New laws, new kinds of things can emerge as the universe evolves. The more moving parts you have in something, the more possibilities there are. There's a whole new science now of complexity, and what we see is that complexity requires a very different approach than the kind of bottom-up approach that fundamental physics has always used. We're gonna have to think about the world in a different way if we want to address complex systems."

--- Adam Frank

#Thinking #Fundamentals #Complexes

"Because obstacles will always present themselves, the hardest obstacle of all is developing a way of living, a way of practicing your approach to life that allows you to keep a healthy perspective on things."

--- Adam Rodriguez

#Perspective On Things #Approach #Perspective

"Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach the period of man's creation, our book becomes more clear, and nature seems to speak to us in language so like our own, that we easily comprehend it. But just as we begin to enter on the history of physical changes going on before our eyes, and in which we ourselves bear a part, our chronicle seems to fail us-a leaf has been torn out from nature's record, and the succession of events is almost hidden from our eyes."

--- Adam Sedgwick

#Creation #Book #Chronicles

"Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport. I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives. But I believe that sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated"

--- Adam Silver

#Protect #Preserves #Sunlight

"Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty."

--- Adam Smith

#Certainty #Approach #Adventure

"Should the political process not work, there is always the other approach."

--- Adel al-Jubeir

#Approach #Process #Political

"At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I'm known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life."

--- Adepero Oduye

#I Can #Play #Beautiful

"As an actor, you really want to resonate with your audience. I played a character on Oz and people still approach me in the streets today."

--- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

#People #Approach #Today

"Some people approach every problem with an open mouth."

--- Adlai E. Stevenson

#People #Approach #Mouths

"A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth."

--- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Politician #Statesmanship #Approach

"Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian parody of a would-be rational learning process."

--- Adrian Smith

#Answers #Complexes #Approach

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