Quotes About Process

Primero, escobille las frutas bajo el chorro de agua tal como lo hizo en el método anterior. Luego, ponga las tunas en agua hirviendo y blanquee por 10 segundos. Retire del agua con pinzas. Una vez que se ha calentado en forma rápida la fruta, sus espinas son menos irritantes, y es más fácil pelarla. Blanquee y enfríe sólo seis tunas por vez, porque cuando la fruta se enfría las espinas vuelven a pinchar. La cáscara se bota.

Learning requires curiosity, exploration, evaluation, and dialogue. To be granted the product of knowledge without this process would violate what it means to be a creature.

People think that the opposite of success is failure, but it's not. Failure is part of the process of success.

I do not believe for a moment that the Scriptures are against wealth. But the warning to those who make wealth their pursuit is a stern reality. Wealth must be processed through a philosophy of life that is greater than wealth itself. If not, it shapes the mind for bitter disappointments.

En síntesis, aceptar y celebrar el hilo de nuestra propia personalidad es el primer paso para comprender el diseño del gran Tejedor en nuestra vida. No eres un número. Él te conoce por tu nombre. Cada etapa del proceso tal vez no parezca muy atractiva, pero cada detalle saldrá a relucir y será hermoso a su manera.

We have become so accustomed to hearing preachers or expositors, as important as that is, that many in the process have abandoned the grand privilege of personally hearing from God's Word daily.

Process is the amount of time we give ourselves to feel safe enough to admit what we already know is true.

It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.

Writing can be described in two verbs: Throw up and clean up.

For ten years I wrote at least one short story a week, somehow guessing that a day would finally come when I truly got out of the way and let it happen.

Teachers say if you write a story you must never name what you're trying to write. Just do it. When it's over you'll know what you've done.

In ballet, any dancer who asks himself what step comes next must freeze. Any man who takes a sex manual to bed with him invites frigidity. Dancing, sex, writing a novel--all are a living process, quick thought, emotion making yet more quick thought, and so on, cycling round.

Chi crea non può fare a meno di distruggere.

But we live surrounded by paradoxes. One more shouldn't hurt us. The fact is simple enough. Through a lifetime, by ingesting food and water, we build cells, we grow, we become larger and more substantial. That which was not, is. The process is undetectable.

importancia de las democracias donde imperan el derecho, el debido proceso legal, los sistemas de pesos y contrapesos y una miríada de instituciones implicadas en descubrir, evaluar y decir la verdad.

To be in the middle of composing a book is almost always to feel oneself in a state of confusion, doubt and mental imprisonment....

Munindra-ji, one of my first Dharma teachers, used to say that in spiritual practice, time is not a factor. Practice cannot be measured in time, so let go of the whole notion of when and how long. The practice is a process unfolding, and it unfolds in its own time. It is like the flowers that grow in the spring. Do you pull them up to make them grow faster?

Nothing at all can prevent the universal process of birth, growth, decay, and death.

The art is your technique or process, and the science behind it is the definite response of creative mind to your mental picture or thought. Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. MATTHEW 7:7.

Golf can't be taught, it can only be learned.

The key point to remember is, take care of the process and the results will take care of themselves.

Get through a draft as quickly as possible. Hard to know the shape of the thing until you have a draft. Literally, when I wrote the last page of my first draft of Lincoln's Melancholy I thought, Oh, shit, now I get the shape of this. But I had wasted years, literally years, writing and re-writing the first third to first half. The old writer's rule applies: Have the courage to write badly.

Every collection of poetry makes a force field of energy. When creating you give yourself over to it. In the fiercest moments of imagination the artist may not know where they are going, the how and when of it, and it doesn't matter. What matters is the process regenerates and meaning shifts at every turn.

When writing goes painfully, when it's hideously difficult, and one feels real despair (ah, the despair, silly as it is, is real!)–then naturally one ought to continue with the work; it would be cowardly to retreat. But when writing goes smoothly–why then one certainly should keep on working, since it would be stupid to stop. Consequently one is always writing or should be writing.