Quotes About Process

Making art is difficult. We leave drawings unfinished and stories unwritten. We do work that does not feel like our own. We repeat ourselves. We stop before we have mastered our materials, or continue on long after their potential is exhausted. Often the work we have not done seems more real in our minds than the pieces we have completed. And so questions arise: How does art get done? Why, often, does it not get done? And what is the nature of the difficulties that stop so many who start?

To all viewers but yourself, what matters is the product: the finished artwork. To you, and you alone, what matters is the process: the experience of shaping that artwork. The viewers' concerns are not your concerns (although it's dangerously easy to adopt their attitudes.) Their job is whatever it is: to be moved by art, to be entertained by it, to make a killing off it, whatever. Your job is to learn to work on your work.

The artist's life is frustrating not because the passage is slow, but because he imagines it to be fast.

A]ll knowledge goes through both stages, the annunciation out of noise into fact, and the disintegration back into noise again. The process involved was the making of increasingly finer distinctions. The outcome was an endless series of theoretical catastrophes.

Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.

the way evolution has always worked, a "secular" process in which life's most sacred secret is embedded.

I know everything I said works because I designed it personally for me only and washed, rinsed, repeated, and recycled the process over 1000 times in my life with each cake I Baked

As like flour, sugar, eggs, etc. all needed to bake a cake the same process is needed in your life to bake your cake, all of us have all the ingredients we ever need to bake any cake we desire

Evaluation is not an afterthought to training, but rather is meant to be integrated into the entire learning and development process. If you wait until after a program is designed, developed, and delivered to consider what value it is supposed to provide to the organization and how you will evaluate it, there is little chance of the program having much value.

A brand or business that skips the creative process has not been founded and is just a failed dream with a worthless title of being founded

You can't found a brand or business until after you lay your foundation first as it starts with your creative process that lays the foundation for your brand to be built on

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous.

Making an espresso is a performance that lasts ninety seconds and then you're done. You go on to the next performance. You may get applause or you may get boos, and then you move on.

One kilogramme of coffee produces about 10 litres of carbon dioxide in the roasting process.

Espresso is probably the most intolerant method of preparation of any food or drink in the world.

Just because it's common sense,' he says of the process, 'doesn't mean it's common practice.

You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it's working on; then you can write a novel.

Just as Marx himself had been brilliant and prophetic in his analysis of capitalism but vague—perhaps deliberately so—about the process of revolutionary change that would finish it off

Nobody is born a Bolshevik. It has to be learned. And it cannot be learned solely from books either. It is learned, over a long time, by a combination of field work, struggle, personal sacrifices, tests, study, and discussion. The making of a Bolshevik is a long, drawn-out process. But in compensation, when you get a Bolshevik, you have got something. When you get enough of them you can do anything you want to do, including making a revolution.

Give yourself permission to be bad. Write first, polish later.

Keep writing. Get to the end. Don't allow yourself to abandon the project. You must finish what you write. But what, you ask, if I have a chaotic mess at the end? Celebrate. This is the way it usually is, even for veteran novelists.

Why, oh why, must we always go through pigs to get our truffles?

More accustomed to relying upon himself to shape events, he took the greatest control of the process leading up to the nomination, displaying a fierce ambition, an exceptional political acumen, and a wide range of emotional strengths, forged in the crucible of personal hardship, that took his unsuspecting rivals by surprise.