Quotes About Process

I begin by noting that the books of the Bible were not sacred when they were written. Paul, for example, would have been amazed to know that his letters to his communities were to become sacred scripture. Rather, the various parts of the Bible became sacred through a process that took several centuries.

Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

A road is a process, not a location.

So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with.

Pearls are congealed oyster spit.

Jon smashes things, and glues the shards into place in the pattern of breakage. I can see the appeal.

Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

To iterate is human, to recurse divine.

I'm known for being very enthusiastic about using technology. A lot of the attraction is the way that it streamlines the process and takes a lot of the drudgery out of it.

Psychological and emotional wellness is an ongoing process for everyone.

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value-added wastes.

An infant always learns. The less we interfere with the natural process of learning, the more we can observe how much infants learn all the time.

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

If I have an idea in my head, within no time it's into the computer, it may take more time to make it sound right, but that's the only issue.

You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.

You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home.

I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the common details.

Everyone needs time to develop their dreams. An egg in the nest doesn't become a bird overnight.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we know. We trust our process. We don't get scared and say, 'Oh, no, this film isn't working.'

The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it."

Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.