Quotes About Process

Los corazones al igual que las flores no se pueden abrir por la fuerza, que tienen su propio ritmo.

Trying to work too quickly, trying to work in too polished a way too quickly, expecting clarity too soon, can set us up for failure.

The most productive writers and creative people I know realize that dreaming and daydreaming are important parts of how writers work. We might not know, now, what to do with the images our dreams or daydreams provide, but one day, if we continue to try to unravel their meaning, as Naylor's process illustrates, we will.

As we begin a work, remembering we needn't know how it'll turn out or whether it'll be successful might be comforting. And we can cultivate our ability to work despite confusion

Let's imagine how we might grow as writers if we work in a slow writing way rather than rushing through our work trying to accumulate a pile of pages. Just imagine what we might gain from being writers who move slowly through our work and slowly through our lives.

The three books I wrote by hand and with a typewriter took less time than the ones I've written using a computer.

Hemingway said write first and then take out all the good stuff and what's left is story. (By "good stuff" Hemingway meant all the material that the author has fallen in love with—not everything that was proper for the story.)

Es un runrún creativo que te acompaña mientras conduces, cuando paseas al perro, mientras estás en la cama intentando dormir. Uno escribe todo el rato.

I think 'slow writing' is the answer when the feeling of burn out threatens, something akin to the 'slow food' movement. Anxiety and panic are counterproductive to the creative process.

how perfect it would be if sleep could not only restore one but iron out all anxieties in the same process, so that one could wake with a totally clear and untroubled mind, as smooth and empty as a beach, washed and ironed by the outgoing tide. But

In the CPS model, holding a kid accountable means that the kid is participating in a process in which he's identifying and articulating his own concerns or perspectives, taking yours into account, and working toward a realistic and mutually satisfactory solution

Já foi dito que a conquista da glória é um processo que se inicia com um impulso destrutivo e se encerra com a "obtenção de um triunfo vingador".

Boil 'em once or twice in hot water, and they'll come as fair as chicken and ham.

History is an intricate process. It errs, advances and retreats, searches here, there, and sometimes gets trapped in a dead end. Only the future can judge, can find appropriate measure.

The levelling process is the victory of abstraction over the individual. The levelling process in modern times, corresponds, in reflection, to fate in antiquity.

However, a self, every instant it exists, is in process of becoming, for the self [potentially] does not actually exist, it is only that which it is to become. In so far as the self does not become itself, it is not its own self; but not to be one's own self is despair.

You think your relationship with your daughter is something that is, a noun, a thing that can be broken, or fixed. Neither of those things are true. Time moves. Ruri is dead, she died long, long ago, and you are alive. What you have with your daughter isn't a thing, it's a process, a verb, it's something you create with each and every moment.

Our approach to QA is based on the belief that the balance between control and accountability on the one hand and quality enhancement on the other must be weighted towards the latter. Only if the QA process is perceived as bringing advantages to those who interact with it, will they contribute to it co-operatively and positively, and only in such circumstances will quality be enhanced.

The process of revision should be constant and endless

There's certainly no unchanging self that is carried through from one moment to the next. Its a processes; it's not a thing. You're a verb more than you're a noun (from the point of view of neuroscience).

Without the strength to endure the crisis, one will not see the opportunity within. It is within the process of endurance that opportunity reveals itself.

Life as a Christ follower will always be a learning process of depending less on our own strength and more on God's power.

Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike. But for me a story is as daunting a prospect as a novel.

When you expand a business as fast as McDonald's did, part of the strength you have is the process and the efficiency.