Quotes About Process

As a collegiate, I think you spend 50 percent of your time recruiting. It is a distasteful process.

When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've finished recording it, you're sick of it.

This time, we went up to Big Bear for 3-4 weeks and sequestered ourselves writing this album [ "The Black Crown"].

A lot of acting is private time.

Lent is a time to renew wherever we are in that process that I call the divine therapy. It's a time to look what our instinctual needs are, look at what the dynamics of our unconscious are.

Drawing takes time. A line has time in it

I'm a quite erratic person: From setups to actually when I'm doing a track, it's just turning and switching and changing all the time.

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.

I bake all the time, but I don't like to eat the cookies when they're done. I just like the dough.

And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone.

Spending energy to understand the audience and carefully crafting a message that resonates with them means making a commitment of time and discipline to the process.

To me, editing is not something you can do in a rush because the artists themselves are not always their own best editors. Time is absolutely everything.

I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them.

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

Power-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education.

Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but its good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.

Working toward perfection is not a one time decision but a process to be pursued throughout one's lifetime.

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I've learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty first draft is to quiet the voices in my head.

Say to yourself in the kindest possible way, Look, honey, all we're going to do for now is to write a description of the river at sunrise, or the young child swimming in the pool at the club, or the first time the man sees the woman he will marry. That is all we are going to do for now. We are just going to take this bird by bird. But we are going to finish this one short assignment.

Bird by bird buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. that thing you had to force yourself to do--the actual act of writing--turns out to be the best part. it's like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony.

Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it.