Quotes About Process

Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.

I signed 'Aurangzeb' because I loved the story. I thought it was an untold tale. For whatever reason, the audience did not like the film. Fair enough, but I still enjoyed the process.

Before shooting, I prepare with the actors much more like it's a theater play than a movie. Apparently, that way of working is very unusual.

Within the songwriting community, there are these unwritten rules for the way that a song should be written in country music, and I think that those rules are constantly being broken over the years, and the molds change and the process is evolving.

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

You make decisions, take actions, affect the world, receive feedback from the world, incorporate it into yourself, then the updated 'you' makes more decisions, and so forth, 'round and 'round.

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

I went to Northampton College of Further Education. I left there - when I was 16, I left Kingsthorpe Upper - and I went and did a diploma in performing arts, so it was my start in the training process to becoming an actor.

I started writing 'Normal People' not knowing that anyone would read it, not knowing that anyone would read the first book, so I didn't really have any hang ups about, 'Oh, I can't do this again. I've done this already.' It was just a project I was working on for my own amusement.

In 'Good Grief', in trying to create this sense of the huge downs and ups, stumbles of this process, we're almost using the music to make it uplifting, so it's not completely hopeless.

Of course any kind of film process has ups and downs and days where you're stuck and have breakthroughs.

I haven't been as healthy as I'd like or as spry as I'd like. But it's all relative to the sport. So I'm just enjoying the process, really. It's been ups and downs obviously and frustrating times. I know that's the beauty and the struggle.

I think the problems with comedians that are political, and there are some brilliant ones, are the ones that offer no solutions. Not that there's a moral obligation for a comic to fix things, but I like to see a comic that's upset about something and offer a solution. It can be a funny solution. I like to see the thought process.

Town meetings are not bean bag. I've had hundreds of them, and sometimes folks get upset. And that's part of America, part of our process.

I never thought of acting as a creative process. Christ, I used to go to the movies and see Brando talking like he was trying to sell shoes, and he was great. I thought anybody could do it. Then I tried it, and I got so uptight, I'm limited as to what I can do on film.

Trust the process. Your time is coming. Just do the work and the results will handle themselves.

Making steel may be compared to making a chappati. To make a good chappati, even a golden pin will not work unless the dough is good

no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.

You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.

We should work on our process, not the outcome of our processes.

You don't think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking.

I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.