Quotes About Process

It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape.

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.

In business -- every business -- the bottom line is understanding the process. If you don't understand the process, you'll never reap the rewards of the process.

The business of thinking ... undoes every morning what it had finished the night before.

We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.

People must make make risks, must make mess in their life's. They must make make mistakes, they must think - This is the part of the proccess "learning"!

Nothing tells you more about an organization than the way it makes decisions.

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.

examine is an interesting word. It's not a matter of looking and seeing—"Now I've got it!"—but a process of examination and contemplation that leads into being able to relax with insecurity or edginess or restlessness. Much joy comes from that.

Wisdom is a fluid process, not something concrete that can be added up or measured. The warrior-bodhisattva trains with the attitude that everything is a dream. Life is a dream; death is a dream; waking is a dream; sleeping is a dream. This dream is the direct immediacy of our experience. Trying to hold on to any of it by buying our story line only blocks our wisdom.

Being fully present isn't something that happens once and then you have achieved it; it's being awake to the ebb and flow and movement and creation of life, being alive to the process of life itself.

When people ask me how long this will take, I say, "At least until you die.

That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs. Everything is in process. Everything—every tree, every blade of grass, all the animals, insects, human beings, buildings, the animate and the inanimate—is always changing, moment to moment.

Trying to get lasting security teaches us a lot, because if we never try to do it, we never notice that it can't be done. Turning our minds toward the dharma speeds up the process of discovery.

So the intelligent way of working with emotions is to try to relate with their basic substance. The basic "isness" quality of the emotions, the fundamental nature of the emotions, is just energy. And if one is able to relate with the energy, then the energies have no conflict with you. They become a natural process.

I mould him as the Baker moulds the Dough before he pops it in the Oven.

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

Work is a process, and any process needs to be controlled. To make work productive, therefore, requires building the appropriate controls into the process of work.

During the process that precedes the decision, no mention is made of what the answer might be. This is done so that people will not be forced to take sides; once they have taken sides, a decision would be a victory for one side and a defeat for the other. Thus the whole process is focused on finding out what the decision is really about, not what the decision should be. Its result is a meeting of the minds that there is (or is not) a need for a change in behavior.

What if instead we said, "Look at how you …" That would simply turn children's attention to the process and away from fixed-theory explanations.12

If you're going to offer critique, focus on the process and possibility.

The last two forms of feedback, "You tried really hard" and "You found a good way to do it; could you think of other ways that would also work?" focus on different aspects of the process—effort and strategy—and not on the person.

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The result of change cannot actually exist before the change.