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Quotes About Process

I remember that at one time I always made a drawing before going to bed!! - Of myself I mean - though I finally destroyed most of them.
~ James Whistler
The rehearsal time is almost my favourite part of being an actress, particularly if you're working on a play that hasn't been done before.
~ Jane Asher
A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.
~ Jennifer Yuh Nelson
I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.
~ Jim Hodges
Two weeks, maybe three. You never know with psychosomatic injuries You have to take your time with them.
~ Jim Palmer
I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't.
~ John Dos Passos
Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time.
~ Joel Edgerton
For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel.
~ Alice Munro
Growth takes time. God knows that. I know that. And to my surprise, His abundance is mine in the process - not as a prize at the end.
~ Carol Kent
With time some poems just fall by the wayside. Other poems get better over time with revision, revision, revision. My ladybug poem took 10 minutes to write but was 10 years in the making.
~ Douglas Florian
Hayek was making us think of the productive process as a process in time, inputs coming before outputs.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
It's a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical.
~ John Cusack
You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.
~ John Guare
Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time.
~ Kenneth Noland
The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.
~ Leonard Cohen
It takes a long time for words to become thought.
~ May Sarton
It's frustrating actually, the time involved in getting something released these days. My new CD has actually been finished for a year. It's only now that it's being released
~ Mick Taylor
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
~ Paul Cezanne
When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.
~ Ray Bradbury
There's no such thing as a short review. It will take a long time to get it started. That's the reality. And it will be probably even longer to complete it.
~ Seamus Mallon
Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time.
~ Steven Pinker
It can take a surprisingly long time to get from one part of my mind to another.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
I spend a lot of time in preproduction working with authors, and a lot of time in postproduction.: editing, music, all that sort of stuff. Casting. On the set there's not a lot for me to do.
~ Charlie Kaufman
It's very slow for me to create humor. It takes me a long time to write a humor piece. It takes days.
~ Dave Barry