Quotes About Process

Natural or artificial stimulation of nerves gives rise to a process of progressive excitation in them, leading to a response in the effector organ of the nerves concerned.

In a large mass of muscle deprived of its circulation, the rate at which the recovery process can go on, after severe stimulation, depends on the rate at which oxygen can reach the fibres by diffusion.

I'll know when a song's really awesome, for sure, and I get super stoked, and I'm so high when I'm hearing it back, but then you sit with the record forever. You're mixing it, and you can really just over-think everything.

I can't usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it's new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it's about function.

Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.

Fire is the origin of stone. By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.

Novel writing, like so many things in life, is an iterative process. You come at it again and again, working at it like you would a piece of pottery or a stone sculpture, chipping away the parts that don't make sense, smoothing over the rough edges.

There's a process: you audition, you get rejected, occasionally you get jobs, and it's exciting, but it's all little stepping stones.

The early firings contained many stones.

Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.

I never stopped DJing through the entire 'Game of Thrones' process. I never saw the need to stop because I do love it so much.

The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.

Jon Kyl did a really good job of presenting a case and moving issues. John McCain probably is one of the more effective legislators, getting things on through the process. I always thought, too - and this may seem kind of odd - Richard Shelby was just an effective guy a lot of times at stopping things.

I'm always writing. There's no stopping. It's just that you can't see it sometimes.

I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.

Parliament is relentless, it never stops.

We've already learned a lot about the production process, and we can't wait for our audience to see what we have in store next.

It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you're fulfilling that inner need, and for me the need is more the process than the finished product. My photographs are stories of the process.

I write these shows one joke at a time. There's no continuity. I do try to figure an order to the stories, but there's not continuity.

The most beautiful products or the most elegant or seductive products, in my mind, are those that tell a story of a process.

It's weird - on almost every film I've worked on, the first sequence we storyboard ends up being the first sequence that goes into animation, and ends up being almost shot-for-shot the same.

I don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course of the writing. It's one of the reasons I've never been comfortable doing screenplays, because in order to get the contract for the screenplay, you have to sit down and tell them what's going to happen.

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.

I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different element of that storytelling process.