Quotes About Process

no industrial designer worth his salt, or our attention, has been trained to work exclusively on any particular product, unless by accident. What he has been trained to do is practice a process called design, a process that includes esthetic choices but does not consist only of them.

Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.

Four-Step Dimensional Design Process The four key decisions made during the design of a dimensional model include: 1. Select the business process. 2. Declare the grain. 3. Identify the dimensions. 4. Identify the facts.

Dimensions provide the "who, what, where, when, why, and how" context surrounding a business process event. Dimension tables contain the descriptive attributes used by BI applications for filtering and grouping the facts.

Practicality requires that we stop somewhere in the process, but nothing actually says we can't keep on writing and revising. In fact, most writers continue to develop ideas and themes from one book to the next in what is essentially a lifelong evolution and revision.

Much has to change in us in order to make us capable of deep union with God. The wounds of both original sin and our personal sins are deep and need to be healed and transformed in a process that has its necessarily painful moments. The pain of purification is called by John of the Cross the "dark night." It is important not to be surprised by the painful moments of our transformation but to know that they're a necessary and blessed part of the whole process.

Execution is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, questioning, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability.

Acceptance of ones' mortality is a process, not an epiphany.

Blamers are notorious for not accepting court orders. Acceptance is part of the grieving process, and people with PDs have a difficult time grieving.

Life is either a continuous process improvement, or a terminal disease that we will all die from anyways.

Management is a methodical process; its purpose is to produce the desired results on time and on budget. It complements and supports but cannot do without leadership, in which character and vision combine to empower someone to venture into uncertainty.

I was fascinated by the simplicity and effectiveness of the system they described that night. Each step in producing the limited menu was stripped down to its essence and accomplished with a minimum of effort.

But I paid particular attention to the french-fry operation. The brothers had indicated this was one of the key elements in their sales success, and they'd described the process.

The Singularity involves an event that will take place in the material world, the inevitable next step in the evolutionary process that started with biological evolution and has extended through human-directed technological evolution.

The other required resource for continued exponential growth of order is the "chaos" of the environment in which the evolutionary process takes place and which provides the options for further diversity.

The essential thing is to recognize that consciousness is a biological process like digestion, lactation, photosynthesis, or mitosis";

The evolution of animal behavior does constitute a learning process, but it is learning by the species, not by the individual, and the fruits of this learning process are encoded in DNA.

Writing is art.... it reflects a creative process of experimentation and self-expression.

From a biological perspective, motivation is a process that "determines how much energy and attention the brain and body assign to a given stimulus—whether it's a thought coming in or a situation that confronts one

I number my drafts, and by the time a book is done, I'll have 75 or 80 drafts of some sections.

I'm not calculating enough in the way I approach writing.

I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.

We're certainly not in position to expand into the East. We've been very candid and up front that if, in fact, we go through an expansion process, the world will know about it.

I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.