Quotes About Process

In any conceivable method ever invented by man, an automaton which produces an object by copying a pattern, will go first from the pattern to a description to the object. It first abstracts what the thing is like, and then carries it out. It's therefore simpler not to extract from a real object its definition, but to start from the definition.

While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the more important aspect involving putting the right process in place.

In handing down a ruling in Hedgepeth v. Washington Metro , Judge Roberts stated that "no one is very happy about the events that led to this litigation." Ansche Hedgepeth, he recounted, "was arrested, searched, and handcuffed. Her shoelaces were removed, and she was transported in the windowless rear compartment of a police vehicle to a juvenile processing center, where she was booked, fingerprinted

dat de liefde geen eindpunt is, maar een proces, waarin de een probeert de ander te leren kennen ...

the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.

love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.

Liefde is geen eindpunt, maar een proces, waarin de een probeert de ander te leren kennen.

the process of recreating ancient artifacts step by step can shed light on the lives and habits of the original craftworkers that no amount of armchair theorizing can give.

He had worked to save those men, though it had been hopeless work. Mankind had acquired an appetite for dying; doctors had become shepherds to the process.

Mindfulness can encourage creativity when the focus is on the process and not the product.

in a society concerned primarily with process, the notion of deviance might have much less, if any, significance.

A painting is never finished—it simply stops in interesting places. PAUL GARDNER

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

I didn't have a hard time making it, I had a hard time letting it go.

she knew that once she had the plot, she could write the book fairly quickly.

If you listened carefully, you could hear the kitchen sink being dragged into the studio. We might have been better off had we realized less is sometimes more, but you don't think like that when you're making your first album.

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

I really like being pregnant. Not that there aren't things I don't love, but when I think about what my body is doing - creating a child - it just blows my mind. I'm in awe of the process and science.

In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.

Having clear decision rules saves heartburn later.

But life is not the wax or wick of the candle, it is the burning. It is not the complex nitrates and the carbon compounds in which it sits but their combustion.

Human beings are infinitely fallible, completely unreliable. Science is not. Science is absolute. Under strict principles, if you do A and B, then C will occur. This rarely happens if you inject the inefficiences of humanity into the process.

Science also deems perception to be the source of all our knowledge of external nature. But it regards it as something more, and different. For perception is itself a part of nature, a natural process, the product of antecedent causes, the cause of subsequent effects. It requires, therefore, like other natural facts, to be observed and explained; and it is the business of science to explain it.

That's what it's like when you're creating things. On the one hand, it really seems like you're keeping it all moving on your own, and you can tell yourself that you've got inspiration raining down on you, but ultimately you can't make anything happen on your own. I