Quotes About Process

And the higher and purer the original object, and the more unselfishly it may have been taken up, the slighter is the probability that they can be led to recognize the process by which godlike benevolence has been debased into all-devouring egotism.

My artwork isn't evolving, it's deconstructing, and I don't know why.

She sighed. "I'm your intake officer. You'll meet your probation officer after we're done with intake." "Will I have to take a number again?" "Yes." "Then please change my annoyance level to nine.

writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all

young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.

Somebody at one of these places asked me: What do you do? How do you write, create? You don't, I told them. You don't try. That's very important: not to try, either for Cadillacs, creation or immortality. You wait, and if nothing happens, you wait some more. It's like a bug high on the wall. You wait for it to come to you. When it gets close enough you reach out, slap out and kill it. Or if you like it's looks, you make a pet out of it.

Creation is like anything else good: You have to wait on it; ambition has killed more Artists than indolence.

è sempre un processo di lasciar perdere, in un modo o nell'altro.

Slow though the process of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by his power of artificial selection, I can see no limit to the amount of change to the beauty and infinite complexity of the coadaptations between all organic beings, one with another and with their physical conditions of life, which may be effected in the long course of time by nature's power of selection.

If he's serious about turning, I can probably walk him through the process using the tablet as a teaching tool: damn Alex for inventing such an easy-to-understand visualization. If you could broadcast it over a TV channel … my blood runs cold at the thought.)

Life is a process which may be abstracted from other media. —JOHN VON NEUMANN

More specifically, there was no orderly process for allowing a handful of giant troubled firms to go bankrupt in a way that would not cause the rest of the system to unravel (e.g., Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG).

The ratings agencies were supposed to be the ones who made sense of this process by evaluating individual securities and assigning them a rating based on their relative risk: AAA, AA, BBB, and so on.

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report describes, "By the time the process was complete, a mortgage on a home in south Florida might become part of dozens of securities owned by hundreds of investors—or parts of bets being made by hundreds more.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

El proceso de fabricar cosas ha empezado a parecerse más al proceso de producción digital.

A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise.

fiction writing can be a blast when you set aside debilitating notions of perfection and just dive headlong into the creative process.

I don't know how anyone ever makes a good movie. It's a miracle every time.

You first do the assembly cut, which is basically the cut that mirrors the script. You've got to start with that.

I'm never more miserable than when I write, and never more happy than having finished and having it sitting in front of me.

I love writing but it's a real pain. It's a miserable process - very satisfying but very miserable.

I think art doesn't have to be created in a period of misery, but it certainly helps.

But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.