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Quotes About Process

The sympathy based on motives, indeed, leaves its point of the identity mark, in that the doubts take place as a natural process and lead to any determination. Such sympathy meets regret. The wise people keep them away from that.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Whatever persons and subjects never become incredible and unique before a tedious and arduous process of life-struggles since as gold becomes jewelry after smelting in the fire and similarly stone through tools as a statue.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.
~ Elaine de Kooning
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed — it is a process of elimination.
~ Elbert Hubbard
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Tive a impressão de que voar submetesse todas as coisas a um processo de simplificação e suspirei, tentei me abandonar.
~ Elena Ferrante
When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.
~ Elena Kagan
Das Schreiben ist kein Genuss. Es ist das Quälende. Etwas, was man tut, wie Kotzen. Man muss es tun, obwohl man es eigentlich nicht will.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
~ Elias Canetti
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation, and it seems most true when it eschews artistic devices of any sort.
~ Elias Canetti
Creating a piece of writing is really the easiest thing in the world—about as natural as creating excrement (and many writers will, indeed, describe their work as such).
~ Anthony Marais
for as long as self-doubt is not paralysing, it also allows for alternative points of view to be given their proper weight and consideration and so can be considered a vital step in any sound decision-making process.
~ Anthony McCarten
Adaptation for film is, by definition, a process of editorializing.
~ Anthony Minghella
A stochastic process is about the results of convolving probabilities-which is just what management is about, as well.
~ Anthony Stafford Beer
Human consciousness created objective existence and meaning, and man found his indispensable place in the great process of being.
~ Anthony Stevens
Coming to terms with loss is a difficult, painful, and largely solitary process which may be delayed rather than aided by distractions. Any rituals which underline the fact that bereavement is a profoundly traumatic event are helpful.
~ Anthony Storr
Be ready to be surprised. Be ready to hear evidence and arguments for positions you may not like. Be ready, even, to let yourself be swayed. True thinking is an open-ended process. The whole point is that you don't know when you start where you'll find yourself in the end.
~ Anthony Weston
Life is a chemical process.
~ Antoine Lavoisier
Stop thinking. From the moment one enters the airport, one is subject to a host of procedures and mechanisms designed to get one from point A to point B. Stop thinking and be the cargo.
~ Antoine Wilson
The real work of destruction had been done long before by satire, libel and rumour; Marie Antoinette had become dehumanized. The actual assault by a body of people inspiring each other with their bloodthirsty frenzy was the culmination of the process, not the start of it.
~ Antonia Fraser
But more often the language is not plain and unambiguous, so that to figure out its meaning, the implicit process of interpretation that we apply to plain and unambiguous language must be made express.
~ Antonin Scalia
Our appointment and confirmation process has, in other words, evolved into a mini-plebiscite on the meaning of the Constitution whenever a new justice is to be seated.
~ Antonin Scalia
The whole of language is a continuous process of metaphor, and the history of semantics is an aspect of the history of culture; language is at the same time a living thing and a museum of fossils of life and civilisations.
~ Antonio Gramsci
Nothing that is complete breathes
~ Antonio Porchia