Quotes About Process

You can't build quality by inspection, but when the quality is not there, the inspection may be the only answer.

Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.

A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it.

I've found most authors have the wrong mental picture of the process. Instead of a sprint, publishing is more like a marathon. Slow, steady and consistent action will get you your audience and success.

Letting it happen is not making it happen. It is not trying hard.

For the teacher or coach, the question has to be how to give instructions in such a way as to help the natural learning process of the student and not interfere with it.

When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice that it is small, but we do not criticize it as "rootless and stemless." We treat it as a seed, giving it the water and nourishment required of a seed.

no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.

Organic growth is a cyclical process; it is just as true to say that the oak is a potential acorn as it is to say the acorn is a potential oak. But the process of writing a poem, of making any art object, is not cyclical but a motion in one direction toward a definite end.

I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the canvas. Spilling a little turpentine can also be helpful.

We didn't want to disrupt the creative process. We have the chance to make the films we want because the films are not expensive. It's very rare to be able to do that. It's completely pure.

When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process.

I'm kind of a nerd, so whenever I get a chance to talk to an artist I really admire, I tend to gravitate to process.

If you write every day, you're going to write a lot of things that aren't terribly good, but you're going to have given things a chance to have their moments of sprouting.

Theater Games are a process applicable to any field, discipline, or subject matter which creates a place where full participation, communication, and transformation can take place.

Integrated marketing communications is a way of looking at the whole marketing process from the view point of the customer.

The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.

Be very slow to go into looking for solutions.

I have never found a better way to enhance the communications process than by reinforcing the points or concepts I wish to make with timely, memorable quotations.

It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me.

I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer.

You never really get to touch anything that you're doing unless you print it out. I don't really enjoy making artwork on a computer because it doesn't seem like I've done anything.

I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.

Design is a thinking process that starts in the head and with sketches. Thinking cannot be done by a computer.