Quotes About Process

I just didn't realize that I'd ever be able to pull it off so smoothly or that, in the process, I was creating a hunger that could never be satiated. After another two months of workshops, I flew back to Los Angeles for a break.

It is always a painful process and often a most discouraging one. The process continues until all that can be shaken is removed and only those things which cannot be shaken remain. Through this shaking the deliverance for which we prayed is accomplished. Through it all, we will be brought into the secure place for which we long."3

Stories, like food, lose their flavor if cooked in a hurry.

In the Philippines, formalizing home ownership was until recently a 168-step process involving fifty-three public and private agencies and taking between thirteen and twenty-five years.

Pure monetary theory, however, cannot explain why in one country the inflationary process proceeds so much further or faster than in another.

The reality, as we shall see, is that history is a process too complex to be modeled, even in the informal ways favored by Turchin and Dalio. Moreover, the more systematic modeling is done of historical phenomena—notably pandemics, but also climate change or environmental degradation—the easier it becomes to go "from being roughly right towards being precisely wrong.

Just as Hitler had predicted, it was rival empires more than indigenous nationalists who propelled the process of decolonization forward.

As soon as something happens to us in America, everyone begins talking about healing. But before you heal, you have to mourn.

To re-live these characters would be wonderful, because I know when the show ends it will be huge mourning process.

I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.

There's a little mourning process when you leave a show.

I did feel that a part of my work was to empty myself out and let it move through me.

The life of a film is very strange. Once the film is done, you wish you could forget about it and move on.

I remember watching Mel Gibson direct himself on 'Braveheart' and he would do two takes, shrug and move on.

Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

I think very abstractly when I'm writing. Then, as the project moves on, it becomes more like sculpting.

We often get impeachment inquiries or moves for impeachment inquiries on one president or another, and it doesn't go anywhere.

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.

What I love about movies is, no matter how many people are involved or how complicated the process is, at the end of the day, it's just what's inside of that frame. It's going to be people sitting in a movie theater watching one shot at a time. And that's my focus.

Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.

Movies are not finished. They are abandoned. A movie is never finished.

Making movies is controlled anarchy, chaos.