Quotes About Process

One shouldn't expect anyone to be complete at any given moment.

Since our brains are wired to make us emotional creatures, your first reaction to an event is always going to be an emotional one. You have no control over this part of the process. You do control the thoughts that follow an emotion, and you have a great deal of say in how you react to an emotion—as long as you are aware of it.

It is not easy to properly position and structure a book, not to mention to do the actual writing.

If you set a goal, then forget about it and instead focus on creating an enjoyable process that you love and find personally rewarding, what happens is that you end up doing better at achieving the goal you set in the beginning.

When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.

UnutuÅŸun tekniÄŸi yoktur, hâlâ rastgele, doÄŸal süreçlere baÄŸl?y?z, beyinsel lezyonlar, unutkanl?k ya da ne bileyim, yolculuk, alkol, uykuya kaç??, can?na k?yma gibi doÄŸaçlamalara.

no theory of hermeneutic legitimation can be indeed legitimate if not by the process of hermeneutic reading… At the origin of the hermeneutic practice, there is a circle; it does not matter how holy or how vicious.

calcination

That is what art is, a process of creation, which makes itself a part of life, and builds new life in its own image, immortal and eternally operating within the soul of man. One accent of the Holy Ghost the heedless world hath never lost!

No, but I can't help wishing that political and economic problems might be settled by free discussion and majority consent. At least I feel bound to advocate that method for my own country, and for all others which have established the democratic process.

some devil was engaged in making a caricature of the democratic process, reducing it to a farce, to prove that the people were incapable of thinking and must really have a master

As commonly used, the meanings of the terms invention and innovation have a large overlap, but innovation is perhaps best understood as the process of introducing, adopting, and mastering new materials, products, processes, and ideas. Accordingly, there could be plenty of invention without commensurate innovation

Discerning the Core Values is a discovery process.

Emphasizing the body as art, these artists amplified the role of process over product and shifted from representation objects to presentational modes of action.

I believe that life is a process of continuous change and a constant struggle to make that change one for the better.

This was a vital part of the process of simple realization, the realization that knowledge led either to wholesale illusion or to irrational depression.

When a caterpillar changes into a butterfly it loses it's caterpillar life.

The first draft is the child's draft, where you let it all pour out and then let it romp all over the place, knowing that no one is going to see it and that you can shape it later.

For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very--it's like being a shoemaker. You know, shoemakers stick to your last and you stay there working over your last, and it's pretty drudgy in a lot of ways.

Before there is wine or there is oil, the grape must be trodden and the olive must be pressed.

Where we begin is not necessarily our starting point. Every journey has it's mileposts.

It's a disgusting process, emptying our stomachs.

All tamed things are made a bit ridiculous in the process, you know.

You're just shy of figuring out how to shuffle your horde of hormone-curdled control-obsessed malignant narcissists offworld. In short, you were about to become our problem. But now there is no problem! Now there is a process.