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Quotes About Process

hayat bir olma sürecidir, içinden geçmemiz gereken süreçlerin bir kombinasyonudur. insanlar?n burada baÅŸar?s?z olduklar? nokta; bir durum, kendilerine bir hal seçip orada kalmak istemeleridir. bu bir nevi ölümdür.
~ Anais Nin
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
~ Anais Nin
From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.
~ Ananda Coomaraswamy
Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.
~ Andre Breton
The process of learning will expand your thinking, opening you to new possibilities and new ways of doing things.
~ Andrew Hunt
You almost always get better results if you slow the process down and spend some time going through the steps
~ Andrew Hunt
In the Gospel story we find five great points of special importance; the birth, the life on earth, the death, the resurrection, and the ascension. In these we have what an old writer has called the process of Jesus Christ; the process by which He became what He is to-day--our glorified King, and our life. In all this life process we must be made like unto Him.
~ Andrew Murray
What does one ever ask an author except: "How?" And the answer, as Less well knows, is obvious: "Beats me!
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Boredom is essential for writers. It is the only time they get to write.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.
~ Anita Shreve
The creative impulse, the thing that gets deep inside me, goes from brain to the fingertips. When you're writing by hand, even when you're not consciously thinking about it, you're constructing sentences in the best way possible. And I still get the thrill of the clean pad of notepaper and the pencil all sharpened.
~ Anita Shreve
Maybe knitting is like writing a story-- an act of discovery. But that seems unlikely, given the very precise directions.
~ Ann Hood
Still, your food just gets all mixed together in your stomach anyway.
~ Ann M. Martin
We need not come to the end of the path to experience the benefits of walking it.
~ Sam Harris
This is stressful—and spiritual life is a process of gradually unraveling our confusion and bringing this stress to an end. According to the Buddhist view, by seeing things as they are, we cease to suffer in the usual ways, and our minds can open to states of well-being that are intrinsic to the nature of consciousness.
~ Sam Harris
As the biologist Richard Dawkins has observed repeatedly, the only natural process we know of that could produce a being capable of designing things is evolution.
~ Sam Harris
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
~ Samuel Johnson
Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.
~ Samuel Johnson
To ACTIVATE  (A'CTIVATE)   v.a.[from active.]To make active. This word is perhaps used only by the author alleged. As snow and ice, especially being holpen, and their cold activated by nitre or salt, will turn water into ice, and that in a few hours; so it may be, it will turn wood or stiff clay into stone, in longer time.Bacon'sNat. History,No 83.
~ Samuel Johnson
Getting the vegetables submerged is the most critical factor for success in vegetable fermentation.
~ Sandor Ellix Katz
Jennifer Doyle (2015, 33) observes that "the filing of a complaint often leads to the filing of more complaints—counter-complaints and complaints about the complaints process." The immanence of complaints—complaints are made in situations that complaints are about—could be well described as a crash site: to complain is to collide into other complaints. Another way of saying this: some complaints get uptake; others do not.
~ Sara Ahmed
The person who puts the complaint forward ends up being the conduit; they have to hold all the information in order that it can be circulated; they have to keep things moving. We sense a difficulty here given that many of the experiences that lead to complaint can make it hard to hold yourself together, let alone an unwieldy process.
~ Sara Ahmed
At this moment, the story in his head was perfect. He also knew from experience that it would degenerate the second he started typing, because such was the nature of writing.
~ Sara Gruen
I've said that if you write, you're a writer. The reverse is also true: if you're a writer, you need to write. Even if you're not achieving certain career or artistic markers on your schedule, you'll be self-actualized or in the process of self-actualizing, and that's what helps equip you to give back to the world in a variety of ways.
~ Sara Zarr