Quotes About Process

The preexisting and presumed congruence and harmony of law and statute, justice and legality, substance and process dominated every detail of the legal thinking of the legislative state. Only through the acceptance of these parings was it possible to subordinate oneself to the rule of law precisely in the name of freedom.

An unconditional equivalence of law with the results of any particular formal process, therefore, would only be blind subordination to the pure decision of the offices entrusted with lawmaking, in other words, a decision detached from every substantive relation to law and justice, and, consequently, an unconditional renunciation of any resistance.

We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being.

The world is complex, and we capture it with different languages, each appropriate to the process that we are describing.

We have a hundred billion neurons in our brains, as many as there are stars in a galaxy, with an even more astronomical number of links and potential combinations through which they can interact. We are not conscious of all of this. "We" are the process formed by this entire intricacy, not just by the little of it of which we are conscious.

An individual is a process: complex, tightly integrated.

The world is not a collection of things, it is a collection of events.

we understand the world by studying change, not by studying things.

a star must ignite for hydrogen to begin to burn there into helium. What causes stars to ignite? Another process that increases entropy: the contraction due to gravity of one of the large clouds of hydrogen that sail throughout the galaxy.

We are processes, events, composite and limited in space and time. But if we are not an individual entity, what is it that founds our identity and its unity?

The second ingredient on which our identity is based is the same as for the chariot. In the process of reflecting the world, we organize it into entities: we conceive of the world by grouping and segmenting it as best we can in a continuous process that is more or less uniform and stable, the better to interact with it.

It isn't true, as is sometimes stated, that life generates structures that are particularly ordered, or that locally diminish entropy: it is simply a process that degrades and consumes the low entropy of food; it is a self-structured disordering, no more and no less than in the rest of the universe.

it is simply a process that degrades and consumes the low entropy of food; it is a self-structured disordering, no more and no less than in the rest of the universe.

Geçmi? ile gelecek aras?ndaki fark yaln?zca ?s? söz konusu oldu?u zaman vard?r. Gelece?i geçmi?ten ay?ran temel olay, ?s?n?n daha s?cak nesnelerden daha so?uk nesnelere geçmesidir.

This reads: "Delta S is always greater than or equal to zero," and we call this "the second principle of thermodynamics

There is not an 'I' and 'the neurons in my brain'. They are the same thing. An individual is a process: complex, tightly integrated.

So what should we praise? The effort, the strategies, the doggedness and persistence, the grit people show, the resilience that they show in the face of obstacles, that bouncing back when things go wrong and knowing what to try next. So I think a huge part of promoting a growth mindset in the workplace is to convey those values of process, to give feedback, to reward people engaging in the process, and not just a successful outcome.

That's what Sunny was beaming about. This was what she loved—the process of making art even more than the final product.

the path is more important than the goal

I derive just as much happiness from the process as from the results.

The great teachers believe in the growth of the intellect and talent, and they are fascinated with the process of learning.

La mentalidad de crecimiento permite que la gente valore lo que está haciendo sin tener en cuenta el resultado.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations." —Paul Valery

One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously.