Quotes About Process

What you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing.

Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your inner life.

I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.

the fundamental question Juvenile Court was designed to ask - What's the best way to deal with this individual kid? - is often lost in the process, replaced by a point system that opens the door, or locks it, depending on the qualities of the crime, not the child.

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

life is a process not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.

Thinking about thinking is the core process of the creative arts, but it tells us very little about how we think the way we do, and nothing of why the creative arts originated in the first place.

Rome wasn't deconstructed in a day.

Sanctification is like a clumsy, slow walk rather than a light switch that we turn from off to on.

Although providing a corrective emotional experience may sound easy, it can be challenging to do—especially when all of this is so new to therapists-in-training. To help, Hill (2009) encourages therapists to be asking themselves the same process-oriented question throughout each session: Right now, am I co-creating a new and reparative relationship, or am I being drawn into a familiar but problematic interaction sequence that is reenacting for this client?

Toward the end of the first session, no matter how well it seems to have gone, the therapist is encouraged to ask clients how the session felt to them and whether they have any concerns about the treatment process or the therapist.

The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding of his subject and mastery of his process.

Adopt and spread a visionary thought, executes the best process; however, steal and claim that as its thinker, exhibits an utterly hideous practice.

As honey bees dare to suck the nectar of the flowers and juice of fruits to store for honey; similarly, such process accrues between a lover and beloved to crown for love.

Before focusing on whatever process, realize the surroundings and people since such awareness educates and results in precisely as your desires.

Birth and death are an event; however, between that, life is a process.

Love cannot adopt and adapt the way that beloved becomes under a process of judging since such practice neither represents love nor sincerity and honesty accordingly its perception and essence.

Nature always stays permanent in all of its dimensions; whereas, the change is an optional process in various ways, forms, and sizes.

Nature is natural science; scientists turn that into the artificial and biological process.