Quotes About Process

Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with.

All too often we bemoan our imperfections rather than embrace them as part of the process in which we are brought to God. Cherished emptiness gives God space in which to work. We are pure capacity for God. Let us not, then, take our littleness lightly. It is a wonderful grace. It is a gift to receive. At the same time, let us not get trapped in the confines of our littleness, but keep pushing on to claim our greatness. Remind yourself often, "I am pure capacity for God; I can be more.

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.

One of the most helpful tools a writer has is his journals. Whenever someone asks how to become an author, I suggest keeping a journal.

Very few of us understand Honorable Bird, except to acknowledge that without his power and grace nothing would be written, painted, or composed at all. To say anything beyond this about the creative process is like pulling all the petals off a flower in order to analyze it, and ending up having destroyed the flower.

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

Stefan Collini comments that the "fallacy of accountability" is "the belief that the process of reporting on an activity in the approved form provides some guarantee that something worthwhile has been properly done" (What Are Universities For? 108). The

They were so focused on the mechanics and the process that they never looked at the problem holistically. In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.

You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.

presenting long rows of data arrayed in complex charts and referring to this kind of gene or that kind of physiological process, and they themselves were talking instead about the mysterious and

think we get in trouble when this process of editing is disrupted—when we can't edit, or we don't know what to edit, or our environment doesn't let us edit.

The central components of the "institutional approach" outlined here – the adoption of a central focus on institutions, process, social control, new psychological foundations, and empirical and instrumental "scientific" investigation – serve as a reference point to identify the movement and its adherents.

So the president set out the policy guidance and said it had to take place in a multilateral fashion so that other countries in the region could be invested in the success of this process.

If you try to find success in fame or in things, you will fail. If you find happiness is the process you will be a success.

Success requires, a human touch, intuitive powers and provocative thinking processes

We mine our greatest value through the process of proactive thinking

Success is a journey, not a destination.

True success is a silence inner process that can empower the mind, heart and soul through strong aspiration for great achievement.

An effective follow-up system is the key to an effective coaching process, which will lead to significant behavioral changes. True success is in the follow-up.

Most people dont understand the process. They get frustrated by it. Dont Be. Focus

Preparation is a process.

Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and true shape and form!

Imagine yourself doing what is best for you. Commit yourself to excellence. Transform yourself with dedication into excellence, from daily self-improvement and practice. Enjoy doing the process.