Quotes About Process

In the bedroom time I have generated thoughts, and then in the studio I take those thoughts and try to shape them into something.

I like making comics and animation because it takes such a long time. I'm not a runner of the 100 meter. I like marathons. The longer it takes, the better I feel.

I love being on sets with very seasoned directors as well as very new directors. Every time is a discovery process. You learn something new every time.

One of the things Ive learned is that baseball is something that happens over time.

That's typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more they complain.

It takes us a long time to write a song that we all really like, so it makes sense that it would take a while for the listener to get there, too.

I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.

Incubated. And then raised. And then beheaded. And then plucked. And then cut up. And then put on a grill. And then put on a bun. Damn, it's gonna take a while. I don't have time. Scrambled!

Digital [photography] has sped up the process to a point that it's a bit self-destructive. It is like driving by a new neighborhood without stopping for a walk. Special discoveries need time.

There is no security, no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago, we will do it again. Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we ever did it before.

Understand that writing is like an athletic activity. To play tennis well, you expect to keep practicing, but for some reason with writing, you think you should come out fresh the first time.

Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. ~Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

builded by the water-drip from a stalactite

Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and re-evaluation

That's typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more they complain.

Al igual que la escritura, la pintura parece reflejar un mundo patas arriba en el que, por así decirlo, la flecha del tiempo discurre en sentido contrario. Las invisibles líneas de la velocidad hacen pensar en un nexo de secuencia y proceso muy diferente. De nuevo ese razonamiento. Siempre me intriga y me desazona, es curioso. Me pregunto si todas las artes son así.

Interrogation is largely a process of rebirth done in the clumsiest fashion possible, a system in which the midwife attempts to deliver the same baby a dozen times in a dozen different ways.

How did the distillers decide which part of their production was vodka and which was rubbing alcohol? Or did it matter? While

From start to finish the potter takes hold of the impalpable void and brings it forth as the container in the shape of a containing vessel. The jug's void determines all the handling in the process of making the vessel. The vessel's thingness does not lie at all in the material of which it consists, but in the void that holds.

A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of full victory. It underestimates the value of confrontation and dissolves the confidence born of partial victory by which new efforts are powered.

Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement—not replace—the process of change through legal recourse. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force.

A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of achieving full victory. It underestimates the value of confrontation and dissolves the confidence born of a partial victory by which new efforts are powered.