Quotes About Process

I am always living in the now, so I like what fate brings to you. That's always fun for me. To have a process and someone be like, 'How about this?' And you just grab onto that and see where it takes you.

I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

I think India's policy that the openness of trade should be carried through a multilateral process is the right one.

The organization is a way for people to find us and deal with us and know how we operate.

We need to stay on the leading edge of technology, that technology in our products, in our internal process and manufacturing. But most importantly, we need the talent. It's multidisciplinary talent. It's talent that knows how to operate globally, that has technology savvy and a business savvy.

I just don't like the idea of having an operation to hold up the ageing process.

I don't think that military-style information operations is conducive for any democratic process.

I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit.

I have never written a novel yet...without doing 40,000 words or more and finding they were all wrong and going back and starting again, and this after filling 400 words with notes, mostly delirious, before getting into anything in the nature of a coherent scenario.

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

It would be very interesting to preserve photographically not the stages, but the metamorphoses of a picture. Possibly one might then discover the path followed by the brain in materializing a dream.

When someone tells you, 'I don't need your idea,' you must not fling your drink in his or her face; instead, you must ask, 'Why?' It's the most difficult—and ego-bruising—part of the creative process.

Magic happens in the rewrite!

The process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

Many feel that process and creativity are in conflict, believing that creativity needs spontaneity and unstructured approaches. No doubt, a lot of creativity is a by-product of informal, spontaneous thinking.

She hated cleaning up after making something.

A book is a really long continuous process, which ideally, should be interrupted only by sleep.

Your system is perfectly designed to yield the result you are getting." This

Sin always splits the self to some degree, yes. You know that you have harmed yourself and others, but you probably are not going to come to terms with that because you're carrying on a charade of righteousness, even if you don't believe it. So confession is very deep in the process of discovering the soul.

Witnessing is not thought of as bringing knowledge, but as attempts to convince people to do things. When you divorce faith from knowledge, you wind up in the position of trying to get people to do things, not of providing them with a basis on which they can then decide how to live and how to lead their lives together. Witnessing has turned into a kind of process of bothering people, and very few people witness because of that.

Spiritual formation in Christ is the process whereby the inmost being of the individual (the heart, will, or spirit) takes on the quality or character of Jesus himself.

When you think about it, it makes sense," says Lt. Colonel William Leek, commanding officer of the Los Angeles Recruiting Station. "Recruiting and basic training are two sides of the same coin. Why have two commanders for what is essentially one process, the making of Marines?

Process transforms any journey into a series of small steps, taken one by one, to reach any goal. Process transcends time, teaches patience, rests on a solid foundation of careful preparation, and embodies trust in our unfolding potential.

Learning is a process of refining errors to the point where they no longer prevent our desired goal.