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Quotes About Process

Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not preparation for life but is life itself.
~ John Dewey
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
~ John Dewey
Nature hath no goal, though she hath law.
~ John Donne
If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.
~ John Dos Passos
Understanding is not about progress; its about process. What we may finally come to understand is that we won't,can't,understand and that incomprehension is essential to our existance. Mystery is our maker.
~ John Dufresne
You wouldn't be here if you didn't want to write, so let's write. We'll chat later. Get out your pen and paper or fire up the computer. Pour yourself a coffee. Unplug the phone. Once you start, you can't stop. Give yourself a half hour. Relax. Don't think too much. You're starting a journey, and you don't know where you're going. But you do know you're going someplace you haven't been before.
~ John Dufresne
Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inevitable end.
~ Henry Miller
Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life.
~ Hubert Selby, Jr.
Do not measure your life by your goals but what you are doing to achieve them.
~ Peter Drucker
The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.
~ Natasha Lyonne
I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again.
~ Philip Roth
As you learn to TRUST YOURSELF something miraculous happens. You begin to TRUST THE PROCESS you are living and the miracles life brings!
~ Iyanla Vanzant
The whole world is there for you. Gifts will happen, but only if you are patient with life itself, the shooting process, and your own limitations.
~ Jay Maisel
It's part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what's been printed about me.
~ Winona Ryder
it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it
~ Alfred Lansing
For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.
~ Marjane Satrapi
Things can change. Life is all a learning process.
~ Mike Tyson
Your trade becomes very much impacted by the quality of your life experiences and your capacity to process them.
~ Natasha Lyonne
Maybe it's because it's connected to my childhood, or it's connected to the origins of what drove me creatively, but I feel like my life never makes more sense than when I'm in that process.
~ Zachary Quinto
A film has its own life and takes its own time.
~ Aaron Eckhart
One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.
~ Andy Goldsworthy
Life is a process of losing our illusions, until we finally lose the illusion that we're alive.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
Pain is a part of life. It's certainly part of my creative process.
~ Brett Dennen
Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.
~ Cesar Chavez