Quotes About Process

In the jury selection process, the court needs to be reassured that the verdict will be based on evidence.

The human is not a fixed entity from the beginning but, along with the rest of creation, is in the process of becoming.

I hope to show in the process that critical analysis can be fun, and in doing so help to demolish the myth that analysis is the enemy of enjoyment.

First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into shape. Third draft: comb its nose and blow its hair. I usually find that most of the book will have handed itself to me on that first draft.

It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got at the truth, however improbable; it was by the much harder process of eliminating the possibilities. You worked away, patiently asking questions and looking hard at things. You walked and talked, and in your heart you just hoped like hell that some bugger's nerve'd crack and he'd give himself up.

For example, the dwarfs found out how to turn lead into gold by doing it the hard way. The difference between that and the easy way is that the hard way works.

He's bound to have done something ," Nobby repeated. In this he was echoing the Patrician's view of crime and punishment. If there was crime, there should be punishment. If the specific criminal should be involved in the punishment process then this was a happy accident, but if not then any criminal would do, and since everyone was undoubtedly guilty of something, the net result was that, in general terms , justice was done.

The real world was far too real to leave neat little hints. It was full of too many things. It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got at the truth, however improbable; it was by the much harder process of eliminating the possibilities.

If we practice walking meditation, we walk just for walking, not to arrive.

And though they clamor endlessly to ask, "Where do you get your ideas?" (a question I have never heard any SF writer worth her or his salt seriously try to answer), the question, "How do you put these ideas together?" (which, with a little thought and analysis, is sometimes answerable) is much rarer.

All phenomena are neither produced nor destroyed, because they are in a constant process of manifesting.

A louder government with less journalism does not enrich our democratic process.

One of my favorite things I read was John Steinbeck's journals while he was writing 'East of Eden,' which was so cool.

It's about the journey and the process. I do things because I love doing them, or trying them.

Each project is torturous and joyful, and it's always an inspiration.

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

I don't make judgments about my own work, and I don't analyze it; I just let it happen. That applies to everything I've done.

The first draft is usually junk. You have to work on it seven to eight times.

I think people need to stop looking at trying to be the judge, the jury and executioner and let the system do its job.

I just kind of like to feel myself into stuff by writing scenes and seeing what characters end up saying.

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

I like to say that I always have a whole book in front of me. I write down the major beats, the major action moments or emotional moments. In theory, that's a book - it's just one page long. Then I start to go back and fill things in.

Creating the perfect lyrics is not a process, it's just something that comes in your brain.

When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.