Quotes About Process

The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me.

So you know, as a filmmaker you have to get it all right in the writing stage. After that, one has to leave it on the judgement of your trusted ones and the audiences.

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

I learned patience. I'm not a real patient guy, but with me trusting in my coach, my managers and my team, I just trust the process and just continue to stay patient and just follow suit.

I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.

When I'm working on something, even when I don't know exactly where it's going, I have a sense of what I'd like to make. So maybe doing things right is following that sense even when I stop trusting myself. The rightness is in the process, even if it doesn't match up with my plans.

A lot of these dips that you go through in the season, it's about persisting through the process and trusting it.

You take the opportunities when you get them, and you try to see if there's any cues the opposition gives you, but more important is focusing on your own process, trusting your instincts, and being decisive.

For me, it's just staying myself, trusting the process, trusting the game, just going through my reads at the end of the day.

Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the namely-est guy ever, exhausted our supply of hyperbole.

I believe that anyone who wants to wear a thong should have to go through an application process.

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby.

I need to know how the clock is made after you tell me what time it is. I want to know all the details so I can understand how it works.

I'm trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It's like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.

I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.

How' is always more important that 'what.' See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.

I used to want to be fully observational, but I'm just not that kind of writer. My process always changes depending on how, when, and where inspiration stiles me.

When you've just done it, you're not sure. But when you've sat with it for a couple of hours and you don't want to do anything more to it, that's a great feeling. It can stand on its own two feet.

I have a very clear vision as to what I want at the end of my prep, and then I throw it out and let the creative process take over.

If you create you will also wait, and while you're waiting you will want to be patient but not idle... responses from the world often take a long time.

While we believe there are fruitful opportunities to update and improve old rules, we do not want to set up a review process that could create a litigation morass.

In the editing process, I delete what I do not want to use, move what remains around if necessary and add elements that I feel will make my visual statement as clear and understandable as possible.

I am not a great planner, so I have just a vague idea. And then I start to find out what kind of book I actually want to write.