Quotes About Process

You write a hit play the same way you write a flop

By refusing to respect you and your needs, the other is bringing about a certain set of natural consequences, which themselves can become the other's teacher. Your job is to simply facilitate the learning process, beginning by asking reality-testing questions, and proceeding to warnings.

Music, she thought, perhaps could be a continuing process, like life, a shedding of one skin as fast as another grew. Instead every tune seemed to exist with its notes firmly rooted in an event or an emotion or a period of time.

Evidently he had the first quality of an angler, which is not to measure the pleasure by the catch.

Nothing was wasted that could contribute to the process of waste. The last dying kick was brought into military utility.

the redress of the grievances of the vanquished should precede the disarmament of the victors." As will be seen, the reverse process was, to a large extent, followed by Britain, the United States, and France. And thereby hangs this tale.

I just didn't grasp the finer points and once tipped a process server who knocked on my door and handed me a summons.

The difference between God and the rational animal is far greater than that between man and the insect world, and it is inconceivable that the human intelligence can understand the process of divine revelation, even though he is the recipient of it.

We went online to surrogacy agencies. We interviewed lots of people - and I have to say, with all due respect, some of them were freaks. I was very leery of the process the whole way through.

In humans (and humans alone), sexuality is embodied in desire--in the primordial desire for life-as-relation. That the sex drive serves the vital desire for relation--that on the level of the primordial process, the desire for life-in-itself clothes itself in the sex drive--belongs to the particularity of being human.

A quilt may take a year, but if you just keep doing it, you get a quilt.

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.

You've got a million bad drawings in you; you better get started.

All of you have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone.

The road is better than the end.

I believe we leaders need to live according to a biblical process, not according to a ministry model.

Stories are like wine; they need time. So take the time. This isn't a hot dog eating contest. You're not being judged on how much you write but rather, how well you do it. Sure, there's a balance — you have to be generative, have to be swimming forward lest you sink like a stone and find remora fish mating inside your rectum. But generation and creativity should not come at the cost of quality. Give your stories and your career the time and patience it needs.

Tai chi does not mean oriental wisdom or something exotic. It is the wisdom of your own senses, your own mind and body together as one process.

Real success or victory is measured by the quality of that very process of attention and mindful involvement, practice, and commitment.

if you trust in the process, forget about all the bells and whistles and just put in the work, disparate things can eventually come together and become something far greater than the sum of their parts.

With imagery scenes the process, from original stressor to final reward, takes place entirely in imagination —except for the relaxation. That is real.

Jessy should control the whole process, from the determination of the stressor and the identification of the problem behavior, to the choice of the reward, taken from her treasury of Enthusiasms.

These fragments of book mean that I work in ruins.

quero não o que está feito mas o que tortuosamente ainda se faz. Minhas desequilibradas palavras são o luxo de meu silêncio.