Quotes About Process

You need to work even if it is a menial or dirty job, because every job is participating in the process of creation.

Writing is like painting a painting. Layer over layer over layer.

Only cooked time tastes well

When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.

I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book.

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know great writers who find the process agonising but to me, writing has always been sheer joy.

No matter what you are after, if you are too focused on the end result, you may miss the rewarding journey that will ultimately get you there. Your achieved goal is the cumulative sum of the small decisions that you make along the way to steer you in the right direction and push you forward. So appreciate your progress, constantly refine your process, and embrace all the struggles that you encounter because overcoming them can endow you with the confidence you need to keep going.

Success is about creating benefit for all and enjoying the process. If you focus on this and adopt this definition, success is yours.

Experience is a continuous process which makes one wiser & wiser after one is subjected to honest commitment to his endeavor. It is honesty in commitment which gives the wing of experience which writes ones success story.

A novel is something that stands at the end of a lengthy process called writing. It is not a preexisting Platonic form embedded within the writer... I do not have a Boston marathon inside me waiting to get out. The marathon is a peak experience I am rightly entitled to only as the culmination of years of regular training and love of running.

But to a bureaucrat paper was never just paper. Paper was life!

Becoming a refugee is a gradual process, a bleaching ou, a transition into a ghostly existence.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.

my own instinctive feeling is that you do not work through bereavement. It works through you. It is the passivity that's involved in bereavement, the feeling that something terrible is being done to you – which it is – that is the most frightening.

It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within the boundaries of the court. That analysis is just as specious as thinking that the difficulty in portraying King Lear on stage is learning all the lines.

The planning process doesn't produce strategy

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

Every system is perfectly designed to get the result that it does.

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you are doing

Inspection to improve quality is too late, ineffective, costly. Quality comes not from inspection, but from the improvement of the production process.

The transformation can only be accomplished by man, not by hardware (computers, gadgets, automation, new machinery). A company can not buy its way into quality.

Blame the process, not the people.