Quotes About Process

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, "How did I do it?" The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

But what can be found can also be lost. The process of differentiation, creating the possibility of integration, brings into being the lifelong theme of finding and losing, which before now could not have existed.

A writer has to strain to make the reader recover the process in the words 'human being'; we talk about 'a being' and 'beings.' This book is about human being as an activity. It is not about the doing which a human does; it is about the doing which a human is.

Ours is a psychological age rather than an institutional one. What used to be done for us by institutional structures and through ritual process, we now have to do inside ourselves, for ourselves. Ours is a culture of the individual rather than the collective.

If it says méthode champenoise on the label, it has been clarified by dégorgement—a process in which all sediment is allowed to settle down into the neck of the inverted bottle, after which the neck is frozen and the ice plug, along with the trapped sediment, is removed. Beers are rarely clarified

The reason that most sea salts have large, irregularly shaped crystals is that that's what slow evaporation produces, whereas the rapid vacuum-evaporation process used in making shaker salt produces tiny

care, selected to match his personal taste. Champagne bottles weren't just opened, they were "sabered," a dramatic and theatrical process in which the force of a saber, slid along the body of the bottle toward the neck, snaps the collar from the neck of the bottle, leaving the cork intact but the bottle open.

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.

kaizen: using small steps to accomplish large goals. Kaizen

The first draft of anything is shit. — ERNEST HEMINGWAY

As Prigogine summarized, "Stress is the way intelligence grows." Or as rich dad would say, "Stay with the process.

Blue came from grinding a stone called lapis lazuli into dust. Red came from crushing tiny beetles. Yellow came from the juice of one kind of berry.

We walk this planet for such a short time. In the overall scheme of things, our lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity. So have the wisdom to enjoy the journey and savor the process.

Parece irónico, pero cuanto menos pienses en el resultado final, más rápido se producirá éste.

No puede haber éxito sin fracaso. Es parte del proceso. Para ganar tienes que fracasar. 85

To me, success is all about being in the process of joyfully creating a life that reflects your highest values, your deepest beliefs and your greatest dreams.

Ironically, the less you focus on the end result, the quicker it will come.

Earlier I taught you that we each think about 60,000 thoughts on an average day. By writing out your desires and goals on a piece of paper, you send a red flag to your subconscious mind that these thoughts are far more important than the remaining 59,999 other ones. Your mind will then start to seek out all opportunities to realize your destiny like a guided missile. It is really a very scientific process. Most of us are simply not aware of it.

The farmer has patience and trusts the process. He just has the faith and deep understanding that through his daily efforts, the harvest will come.And then one day, almost out of nowhere, it does.