Quotes About Process

Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.

Mainstream America, in the long run, will always stand for highly qualified, impartial judges and for a fair process and for senators who do their jobs and vote - not who unfairly smear good men like Judge Alito.

If bitter party name-calling turns people off then smear politics just destroys all credibility in the aims of politicians, the role of political parties and the political process itself.

This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

We are here today because of grass-roots conservatives all over the place. That's the way the democratic process is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be a bunch of guys in a smoky room in Austin picking the next Senator.

Whatever I read about Emergency as a part and process of my film, I can say, as a citizen of a democratic country called India, I am certainly not 'for' Emergency, a decision that snatched away the normalcy of human life for 21 months.

Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.

Film is not like a book; it's not a writer's baby at all. So many people have put in their talent, by that time that you feel grateful for what they've done, you don't feel possessive about it in any way.

Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

After so many years, I've learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That's why writers, for example, like to establish routines for themselves.

I love the entire process of being on the set and being able to create a character. It's so much fun. In 'Think Like a Man,' I have a very small part. They told me it wasn't a big budget, but I don't care about any of that. I'll do it for free simply because I love being on the set with other creative people.

I've worked on movies that are being rewritten as you go, but you take so long and so much time doing it, that it's not really an issue knowing what's going to happen or how the movie is going to end.

Most recipes try to rush the process, promising to wrap things up & get the dish on the table in a couple of hours. These days recipes are steeped in the general sense of panic about time & so have tried to speed things up, the better to suit our busy lives.

When a seed sprouts, it's a violent process. The skin breaks and splits in two. Something dies and something is born. Anytime you paint a strong or violent image, you may be expressing that part of yourself that's opening in order to let the new emerge.

You can't heal until you've forgiven. Forgiveness is not the last step of a process; it's the first step that begins a process.

In other words, the process of observation determines the final state of the electron.

Master: It is Love. Love is the medicine that accelerates the process of healing. There is no other medicine but unconditional love. Not: I love you if, or I love myself if. There is no if. There is no justification. There is no explanation. It is just to love. Love yourself, love your neighbor, and love your enemies. This is simple, common sense, but we cannot love others until we love ourselves. That is why we must begin with self-love.

the mastery of transformation is the process of unlearning what you have already learned. You learn by making agreements, and you unlearn by breaking agreements.

The process of domestication can be called the dream of the first attention because it was how your attention was used for the first time to create the first dream of your life.

The trouble is, writing the damn thing is like unscrewing your skull and pouring the contents of your brain into an empty tank. The tank has a shape, more or less - has more or less defined edges, a bottom and sides. But what it mostly has is volume: a hungry space I've somehow got to fill.

Un flujo pieza a pieza al menor coste posible.» Tal como hemos visto en el capítulo 3, esta visión no procede de Toyota ni de Japón, y ya ha sido perseguida desde hace unos cuantos cientos de años. ¿Por qué no adoptar esta visión de la producción ampliamente reconocida y ponerse en marcha?

Meta skills define the how-to, not the what-to.

No se trata de ir a la caza y captura de desperdicio en el proceso. El paso por las diferentes etapas de este análisis de proceso tiene el propósito de obligarle a examinar y hacer frente a los detalles de un proceso, para que así pueda definir cómo debería operar un proceso. Una vez que disponga de un estado objetivo, entonces podrá esforzarse en avanzar hacia el mismo, hacer las cinco preguntas e identificar aquello en lo que tiene que trabajar.

Figura 5.11. La pauta heijunka como estado objetivo. Heijunka es una de las técnicas más importante del arsenal de herramientas de Toyota, y un estado target u objetivo especialmente útil porque el esfuerzo por alcanzarlo arroja luz sobre muchos elementos del proceso de montaje y el flujo de valor asociado. Una vez que hayamos entendido que heijunka, o nivelación, no es un corsé, sino un estado objetivo, podremos cosechar mejor los beneficios de haber ido tras el mismo.