Quotes About Process

What I have done is packaged the time-honored information into a process that is doable and has inspired millions to act on it.

There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.

If you do improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or less based on a writing process.

The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.

Allí donde un sastre remendaría su tela, donde un calculista hábil corregiría sus errores, donde el artista retocaría su obra maestra todavía imperfecta, la naturaleza prefiere volver a empezar desde la arcilla, desde el caos, y ese derroche es lo que llamamos el orden de las cosas.

It has been said that love brings up everything unlike itself, and sometimes just when we feel we are moving toward a solution, the problem jumps up again and grabs us by the throat. That is natural. It is part of the process. Do not despair.

Marie refuses to describe herself as cured. She feels such a label ignores the process of getting and staying healthy. 'When I was released from Sutton State Hospital, I didn't come out 'well.' It was a process of getting well. In my first years out, I would sometimes have to sit rigidly by the door, stuck in my anxiety, disconnected from my feelings. I still had to learn that I couldn't demand love and attention - I have to learn to exchange feelings.' (xiii)

The environment is the agent that does the shaking of the sieve.

No one, especially not Birkhoff himself, would claim that the intricacies of aesthetic pleasure could be reduced entirely to a mere formula. However, in Birkhoff's words, In the inevitable analytic accompaniment of the creative process, the theory of aesthetic measure is capable of performing a double service: it gives a simple, unified account of the aesthetic experience, and it provides means for the systematic analysis of typical aesthetic fields.

may ask me anything." "How long would it take to get a closed stove installed

A vision is not a static picture but a process that gets refined over time

Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative process. Don't just brainstorm; praystorm.

The name potash is derived from the process used for making potassium carbonate, cooking down water and wood ash in earthen pots.

The finished paper is still 5 percent water.

Herzl had said that attracting the Jewish diaspora would be a slow process, but after a half century as a nation, according to the Israeli Ministry of Tourism, only 17 percent of American Jews have ever visited Israel.

integrity is an unending process of letting our inner experience and our outer experience complete each other, in spite of our very human lapses.

If counseling is a process of discovery and recovery, then grace is essential to help clients experience enough safety to explore the hidden places of their lives.

Reading any novel, good or mediocre, is a workshop for a writer.

A writer must learn to trust the process; the words and ideas will flow from some deep inner recess once the writing has begun.

if you take away one single thing from Climategate, it's that the global warm-mongers have wholly corrupted the "peer-review" process.

In a dry wind like this, snow and ice can pass directly into the air as a gas without having first melted to water. This process is called sublimation; tonight the snow in the yard and the ice in the creek sublime.

It is the beginning of a work that the writer throws away.

Todo el mundo debería saber hacer una tortilla francesa. Cocinar huevos es un comienzo tan bueno como cualquier otro, porque es la primera comida del día y porque el proceso de aprender a hacer una tortilla, para mí, no es solo una técnica, sino una forja de carácter. La técnica de la tortilla enseña delicadeza, necesariamente; comprender lo que sucede en tu sartén y saber actuar en consecuencia requiere cierta sensibilidad.

When you're at odds with yourself, it's hard to create. Sometimes the writing process is as easy as opening up the window and letting in the breeze. And sometimes it's like chiseling away at a block of granite with a pencil.