Quotes About Process

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

I think I have a responsibility as a film-maker to bring not only controversial subject matter to the screen but also to inspire a thought process.

My thought process when I'm on the court is always thinking about getting better, and thinking about how I'm playing. Thinking about it as a process, as the big picture and what I need to work on, instead of being close-minded and thinking, 'I'm so nervous and have to win this match, if I don't, it'll be the worst.'

Education is the best way to relieve someone from a bad thought process.

I wanted to have a shoe as a professional, and that sparked that creativity and thought process of what that could be like if I could have my own.

Any Supreme Court confirmation needs to be a thoughtful process, with full respect for the separation of powers outlined in the Constitution.

I think about it as not so much 'I need to get it out of me,' it's not that my thoughts are poison, I just want to write good music.

We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process.

The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music.

I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.

Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day, and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper.

You don't write a book. You write a sentence and then a paragraph and then a page and then a chapter. Looking at writing 400 plus pages or seventy thousand odd words is incredibly daunting, but if you just focus on the immediate picture - say, 500 words - it's not so overwhelming.

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.

Who becomes Character. What becomes Action. (What happened.) Where becomes Setting. When becomes Chronology. Why becomes Cause or Motive. How becomes Process. (How it happened.)

I promise you a case of writing paralysis if you think about too many of these tools when you sit down to write. Let your writing flow early. You can reach for a tool later. •

Everything is a consequence of Something. The element of coincidence doesn't exist. We only think it exists because we cannot keep up with all processes that happen around us.

You're not allowed to chart love. The reason … is because we think of love as a binary thing: You're either in love, or you're not in love. You love, or you don't love. I think the reality is that love is a process

It is not anti-scientific to question established beliefs, but central to science itself. At the creative heart of science is the spirit of open minded inquiry. Ideally, science is a process and not a position or a belief system. Innovative science happens when scientists feel free to ask questions and build new theories.

The term "dialectic" has its origins in ancient Greece. It was seen as a special process of dialogue whereby opposing views or opinions could be reconciled with each other to establish the truth.

The point of the journey is not to arrive.

Write the tests first, or second, or third. But write the darned tests.

There's only the writing, which I admit to knowing very little about. But then it's probably best not to know. It allows one to work without expectation. Best to let the poem do the thinking while we concern ourselves with what's called the personal life.

Once we have a constitution and relevant legislative institutions in place, working out details may then be facilitated, although it need not be very democratic.