Quotes About Process

Joy's life in the doing (..) I mean it's the writing, not the being read that excites me.

How he wrote and it seemed good; read and it seemed vile; corrected and tore up; cut out; put in; was in ecstasy; in despair; had good nights and bad mornings... and could not decide whether he was the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.

Nothing happens here except that I write and write, and curse and burn.

It is a singular reaction, this sitting still and writing, writing, writing, or ruminating at length, which is much the same, really.

I happen to be the kind of author who in starting to work on a book has no purpose than to get rid of that book....

The artist, like the scientist, in the process of evolution of art and science, is always casting around, understanding a little more than his predecessor, penetrating further with a keener and more brilliant eye—and this is the artistic result.

There are three mutually reinforcing elements that define fair process: engagement, explanation, and clarity of expectation

plans, as of yet there has been no theory or process for true strategy creation. We believe the four-step process proposed here goes a long way to correct this situation. By being built around a picture, it addresses many of managers' discontents with existing strategic planning and yields much better results. As Aristotle pointed out, "The soul never thinks without an image.

By fair process we mean engaging all the affected people in the process

people in the front line care as much about the proper process as those at the top.

By violating fair process in making and rolling out strategies, managers can turn their best employees into their worst, earning their distrust of and resistance to the very strategy they depend on them to execute. But if managers practice fair process, the worst employees can turn into the best and can execute even difficult strategic shifts with their willing commitment while building their trust.

As of yet there has been no theory or process for true strategy creation.

Winning is overcoming obstacles to reach a goal, but the value in winning is only as great as the value of the goal reached. Reaching the goal itself may not be as valuable as the experience that can come in making a supreme effort to overcome the obstacles involved. The process can be more rewarding than the victory itself.

Uncomfortable without a standard for right and wrong, the judgmental mind makes up standards of its own. Meanwhile, attention is taken off what is and placed on the process of trying to do things right.

To me it makes sense to build any system of instruction upon the best possible understanding of natural learning, the learning process you were born with.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

She sank down in the chair again, gingerly, as if it would splinter. It might. Hades had made it himself, discovering in the process that he was a better Lord of Souls than he was Lord of Furniture.

Doing a lot of reading is not the prerequisite to writing.

Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.

But the development of human society does not go straight forward and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.

I think this is an exercise in fertility, but okay.

The dreaming, the making, the resting— all part of the creative process.

Generally, we associate groupthink with a distorted and failed policy process. It is important to note that this process develops out of certain group dynamics and is not a conscious process. A process is not a technique! Groups do not decide to use group-think.

The first series I wrote, 'L.A. Candy ' was always meant to be a three-book series, so when I started out it was all outlined that way and by the time I was done with the third book, I had become so involved and the process and the stories, I was a little bit sad to be done.