Quotes About Process

A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.

A pencil in my hand, its secret life / is charcoal, the wood already burnt, / a sacrifice.

For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.

Fermentation is right up there with cooking as one of the most powerful methods to transform food.

The aliens are using us, the argument goes, for their own purposes, replenishing their genetic stock at our expense after some sort of holocaust on their own planet. If they make us feel that there is something worthwhile about the whole process, this is the result of deception. I would not say that the aliens never resort to deception to hide their purposes, but the above argument is, in my view, too narrow or linear an interpretation.

and a campfire for illumination. Usually a slow writer—he

Sometimes the best solution to a problem is active waiting. There is wisdom in allowing events to unfold in their own time.

if you've got writer's block, you aren't empty - maybe it's just like Twitter - overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking a while...

One waxes pessimistic? Not so much Ã¢â'¬Â¦ There is a pessimism about land which, after it has been with you a long time, becomes merely factual. Men increase; country suffers. Though I sign up with organizations that oppose the process, I sign without great hope.… Islands of wildlife and native flora may be saved, as they should be, but the big, sloppy, rich, teeming spraddle will go. It always has.

I've had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I don't get involved in that process. I know nothing about making movies and I stay away from it and hope for the best.

In many ways, history both begins and ends with questions; which is to say that it never really ends, but is a process.

The trick, of course, is to lose one day and come back to win the next. But that is possible only when we draw healthy pleasure and confidence from our creative processes.

Knowing how polarities work, the wise leader does not push to make things happen, but allows process to unfold on its own. The leader teaches by example rather than by lecturing others on how they ought to be. The leader knows that constant interventions will block the group's process. The leader does not insist that things come out a certain way. The wise leader does not seek a lot of money or a lot of praise. Nevertheless, there is plenty of both.

Set the cart before the horse.

We shall remain prisoners of culture unless we become aware of the process and force ourselves to confront it and to deprogram it.

I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.

the yen upturn coincided exactly with the start of a topping process in global stocks. By first quarter 2008, the yen had risen to the highest level in three years against the U.S. dollar as global stocks tumbled.

The process of digestion of carbohydrates is a disassembly of the larger, complex molecules of starches to yield sugars, and this elemental and straightforward process begins in your mouth. So simple is the process that some starches are rendered into sugars through chewing and saliva even before they hit your throat. The result is a long list of sugars, but these in turn reduce to two in the main: glucose and fructose.

SEO is all about catching buyers when they are already in the purchase process

The process by which money is created is so simple that the mind is repelled.

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.'

Application is complication',

biology is chaos. Biological systems are the product not of logic but of evolution, an inelegant process.

Magic is a building of many small efforts towards a final, greater end," Hywel said. "Magic is slow.