Quotes About Process

Life is a series of changes—a process of going from the old to the new—from chronos to kairos. Growth, change, revival—all are processes. Life is connected. Not understanding this, we tend to despise the chronos times of preparing, sowing, believing and persevering. Our preference is to always live in the kairos times of fresh and strategic opportunities.

The plan is useless; it's the planning that's important.

How do you master all the varied techniques? By writing stories. Which is to say, by being willing to be wrong. Then, having been wrong, you check back through your stuff for process errors . . . places where you skipped over steps, or went off the path, or started with the road map upside down. Do that enough times, on enough stories, and eventually you'll learn.

What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.

You have to enjoy life in the process. It may sound corny, but it's true. At the end of the day, we can't always achieve everything that we dream of but you do have to enjoy life in the process.

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

I begin with an idea, but as I work, the picture takes over. Then there is the struggle between the idea I preconceived... and the picture that fights for its own life.

Success is not something you achieve, conquer, climb, or complete. Success is a process; it's a way of life.

A writer doesn't solve problems. He allows them to emerge.

The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.

Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.

Life is a process--just one thing after another. When you lose it, just start again.

Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.

Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

Healing is not an overnight process; it is a daily cleansing of pain, it is a daily healing of your life.

Life is a constant process of change, for better or worse.

If you don't try and force it, a song will find the proper moment to come to life.

My creative life is a constant struggle to achieve a balance between letting things flow in and letting things flow out.

The pursuit of excellence is a continuous process through life. Enjoy the pursuit.

More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina.

just like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution.

If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there would be nothing at all.

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.