Quotes About Process

Very little arrives (those asteroid impacts are few and far between), and only a whisper of gas escapes. Everything else must be endlessly recycled: and so it is. The rain becomes the ocean and the ocean becomes the rain, the mountains are ground down to cover the sea-floors with silt, ancient silts rise up to make new mountains.

This process of continual internal state-change is the cogitation that is the raison d'être of the monad and the fundamental process of the universe.

The most expensive of all was verdigris, which was made by hanging copper strips over a vat of horse dung and vinegar and then scraping off the oxidized copper that resulted. It is the same process that turns copper domes and statues green – just quicker and more commercial – and it made 'the delicatest Grass-green in the world', as one eighteenth-century admirer enthused. A room painted in verdigris always produced an appreciative 'ah' in visitors.

The most important lesson: that each ingredient should be cooked separately.

Nobody knows of a way to make cement without going through this process. It's a chemical reaction—limestone plus heat equals calcium oxide plus carbon dioxide—and there's no way around it. It's a one-to-one relationship. Make a ton of cement, and you'll get a ton of carbon dioxide.

Leadership is a journey, not a destination. It is a marathon, not a sprint. It is a process, not an outcome. (quoting John Donahoe)

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery -- it recharges by running.

Programming is like sex: It may give some concrete results, but that is not why we do it.

From one point of view, all that a program ever does is to compute; that is, it takes some inputs and produces some output.

Programming is like sex: It may give some concrete results, but that is not why we do it. – apologies to Richard Feynman

Ultimul lucru pe care-l afl?m când alc?tuim o lucrare este cu ce ar fi trebuit s? începem.

The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.

First, the process will lead you to look for and adopt better business practices, as Ray Pagano did.

Another strategy was to delay, procrastinate, cite legal restrictions. Lawyer Porter said, "But slow-walking things or not taking things up to him, or telling him—rightly, not just as an excuse—but this needs to be vetted, or we need to do more process on this, or we don't have legal counsel clearance—that happened 10 times more frequently than taking papers from his desk. It felt like we were walking along the edge of the cliff perpetually.

La resiliencia es un proceso que siempre es posible, si la persona que se está desarrollando encuentra un objeto que le resulta significativo.

Mon cher jeune homme, dit Aglaé en souriant, j'ai été professeur de chimie et je vous ferai remarquer qu'il peut y avoir des réactions en chaîne, qui partent très doucement et, s'alimentant elles-mêmes, peuvent se terminer de façon violente.

Other tissues that begin to adapt to the stretching process include the ligaments, tendons, fascia, skin, and scar tissue.

Sculpture is about process, and this process is often fragmented. In a way, our lives are like that. A lot of people have trouble with transitions, with discontinuity. But this is what makes us grow. It's mysterious. You shift to a new platform and see things from a different perspective. Art does that. Wildlife does that. Wildlife and art reveal these transitions and demand we experience them.

During the writing process you're going to discover things about yourself you never knew. For example, if you're writing about something that happened to you, you may re-experience some old feelings and emotions. You may get 'wacky' and irritable and live each day as if you were on an emotional roller coaster. Don't worry. Just keep writing.

But when I took up my pen, my hand made big, jerky letters like those of a child, and the lines sloped down the page from left to right horizontally, as if they were loops of string lying on the paper, and someone had come along and blown them askew.

The thing about writing is not to talk, but to do it; no matter how bad or even mediocre it is, the process and production is the thing, not the sitting and theorizing about how one should write ideally, or how well one could write if one really wanted to or had the time. As Mr. Kazin told me: 'You don't write to support yourself; you work to support your writing.

Each of these magic seven weeks: writing: not the novel yet, until I'm warmed up.

Process of Manifestation, it goes like this:

The journey not the arrival matters.