Quotes About Process

Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a very dirty peanut across the floor with your nose.

Starting a novel is like standing in a field and waiting for lightning to strike.

The first sentence can't be written until the final sentence is written.

If you are having trouble trusting your ability to hear from God, "step out and find out!" Learning to discern God's voice is a process. Even if you fall down, you can trust Him to help you find your way again.

La mente es el campo de batalla. Es de vital necesidad que nuestros pensamientos concuerden con los de Dios. Es un proceso que tomará tiempo y estudio.

Just because we are anointed for leadership does not mean that we get to move immediately into a position of leadership. There is a work that has to be done in us, a testing that has to take place first. Later, we will look at some of the tests of the heart of a leader that we must go through before we get promoted. After

You gave the devil time to process you out of your divine state. Now, you must give God the same amount of years to process you back to Him.

Perhaps also part of what dialogic understanding entails is the acceptance of divergence, breakage, splinter, and fragmentation as part of the often tortuous process of democratisation.

In other words, sex is an ideal construct which is forcibly materialized through time. It is not a simple fact or static condition of a body, but a process whereby regulatory norms materialize 'sex' and achieve this materialization through a forcible reiteration of those norms.

identification is always an ambivalent process. Identifying with a gender under contemporary regimes of power involves identifying with a set of norms that are and are not realizable, and whose power and status precede the identifications by which they are insistently approximated.

Hence, it is not that one cannot get outside of language in order to grasp materiality in and of itself; rather, every effort to refer to materiality takes place through a signifying process which, in its phenomenality, is always already material. In this sense, then, language and materiality are not opposed, for language both is and refers to that which is material, and what is material never fully escapes from the process by which it is signified.

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.

There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.

We must trust our process, look beyond "results.

We are fossils in the making.

You're never confident. You go in fear and trembling every day. It would be awfully nice to think that you know how to write a novel. But what you know is the novel you just wrote. You don't have the slightest notion how to write the one you're going to do next.

The statement that the process does not involve the poet as subject, to the extent to which that is true, precludes direct egotism. On the other hand, without indirect egotism there can be no poetry. There can be no poetry without the personality of the poet, and that, quite simply, is why the definition of poetry has not been found and why, in short, there is none.

Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed; and finally, a textile one, where it is woven.

It is the silence-breaking cry that begins the process that turns pain into joy.

That the manufacture of consent is capable of great refinements no one, I think, denies. The process by which public opinions arise is certainly no less intricate than it has appeared in these pages, and the opportunities for manipulation open to anyone who understands the process are plain enough. The creation of consent is not a new art. It is a very old one which was supposed to have died out with the appearance of democracy. But it has not died out.

Writing is a process of discovery of what you really do know. You can't limit yourself in advance to what you know, because you don't know everything you know.

El amor sano no es una tabla de mandamientos ni un listado de códigos, sino un proceso vital de descubrimiento y crecimiento personal. Amas a una persona cuando respetas su capacidad de crearse a sí misma.

confía en el proceso. Sin tratar de controlar toma todo como se presenta. No vive para lograr poseer sino simplemente para ser todo lo que puede ser en armonía con el Tao. Las

When I used to take tests in college, I would be very anxious," he told me. "So I came up with a process whereby I would always answer the more obvious questions first. Then, as my anxiety would lessen, I'd start to answer more of the questions that required real thinking.