Quotes About Process

Language has historically stood as a barrier for some voters seeking to participate in the electoral process.

I do want to say the process of writing a novel is riddled with self-doubt and self-loathing.

When you first sit down to write songs, you have to be selfish.

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.

Some people get turned on by my work, and it sells, but what drives me is the process of making it.

It was a really long process, dropping out of college. I was there for a semester, then I would take a semester off and go on tour, then I would go back for a semester.

Running for Senate is a very involved process.

I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them.

The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process.

There are artists that actually don't like going into the studio. They get mad when people say they've got a session. I'm just the opposite. I actually enjoy it.

I like shocking, but I don't like to shock as an automatic process. Sometimes it happens, but it's not my main drive.

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

It took me a year just to edit 'Shotgun Stories.' Actually, it took me two years to edit 'Shotgun Stories.'

Having grown up watching my father direct films and having worked with him and my brother, I know how films are made, how shots are taken.

I write every day... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good.

I was writing songs in my room for like six year, not showing anyone.

I'm process-orientated. Awards, by their nature, are results-orientated.

Sometimes our awards process can be very political in terms of just driving personal agendas, and I think we forget.

Fame and success and awards should never be the aim. The aim should be: Are you enjoying the making of the thing?

To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only.

I'm trying to demystify the whole process. Make it simple, make it palatable. I want people to have respect for the law, and I want to educate people on the basics of the law.

I wish we were smart enough that, every time we had an idea for a script, that it was great right off the bat.

You know, we never really know what we're going to write next. Which is part of the excitement when we go in and do a new album. No battle plan, we just go in and do it and what comes out, comes out.

Obviously, I want my kids to be happy, and I believe that they can be super successful at whatever they want to do, but don't make the successful part more important than the process of doing it. Especially if it's an artistic endeavor.