Quotes About Process

It's really great when you can admonish a lawmaker, but at the same time, get them to talk about the process of making government more transparent, then that's great.

It is actually in not doing that we have achieved this wondrous thing, Sire. All we did was create the space for the painting to happen and let it paint itself.

Small steps work—grandiose goals don't.

One cannot do such harm to another and not wound one's own soul in the process.

The brain is a furnace./ Is transformed and transforms.

The idea of being able to serve as an example, based upon how to process, how to think, how to realize our own dreams, we can pass that down to our children.

At that moment I was fully aware for the first time how far advanced the process of paralysis already was in me—it was as if I were moving through flowing, bright water without being halted or taking root anywhere, and I knew very well that this chill was something dead and corpse-like, not yet surrounded by the foul breath of decomposition but already numbed beyond recovery, a grimly cold lack of emotion.

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.

It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake.

Part of the process in healing from trauma, like recovering from addiction, is developing connection and support with others.

I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.

Directing the process by the mind can only lead to difficulty, for the mind does not know. Commitment to the Truth is sufficient for the process to unfold.

It's [music composition] the most effortless thing in the world because you don't do anything. I hate to say it like that, but it's the truth.

All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.

True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience

The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.

As long as you are a part of the physical process of the existence, there is nothing that does not change.

Self-evidently, dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth seeking.

Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one

Adjust your doctrine - or just minimize doctrine - to attract the world, and in the very process of attracting them, lose the radical truth that alone can set them free.

If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.

The truth is that one is more frequently blessed with ideas while working.

To me the question of inspiration is an exercise in hindsight. The truth is inspiration is mysterious at the time. I don't think it's ever a rational process.

So many people among non-scientists see science as an unassailable monolith of truth, and it's not. It's an ongoing self-correcting process.