Quotes About Process

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

I took about a year to fully adjust. Like there's a death at the family or a divorce, you don't just snap your fingers and it's over.

I would quit while you're ahead. Really. It's an awful field. Just torture. Awful. You write and you write, and you have to throw almost all of it away because it's not any good. I would say just stop now. You don't want to do this to yourself. That's my advice to you.

But seeing those words that were first written, and scratched out, and rewritten again in print and bound into a book, I know that I love the process of writing and publishing. To take a thought and work on it, to render it into the clearest form possible, and then to send it out into the world—this is work so precious and so joyful that I am not surprised that men have kept it to themselves.

To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing. Picasso

for certain limited purposes it may be useful to think of phenomena as isolated statically in time, they are in point of fact never static:

For the plan grows under the author's hand; new thoughts occur to him in the act of writing; he has not worked out the argument to the end before he begins.

I don't think it is possible to give tips for finding one's voice; it's one of those things for which there aren't really any tricks or shortcuts, or even any advice that necessarily translates from writer to writer. All I can tell you is to write as much as possible.

A favorite verse of Scripture says it best and most succinctly : Delight yourself in the Lord; and He will give you the desires of your heart (Psalm 37:4). This doesn't mean that He's necessarily giving you what you want, but rather that He is in the process of transforming your soul to desire what He wants.

Want me to warm up the sauce?" "Do we do that? I mean, it's in a jar, right? Can't you just dump it over the pasta?" "Well, you can, but it tastes better if you warm it up." "Oh." Eve sighed. "This is complicated. No wonder I never cook.

Life is a work is progress.

Este elemento cognoscitivo puede ser una perla ya formada o una semilla que debe aún crecer; pero en cualquier caso, hay que buscarlo, cultivarlo, merecerlo, recibirlo. No está ahí; no es inmediatamente dado a todos. Es fruto de un proceso aunque éste no sea homogéneo o paulatino. Aunque pueda ser instantáneo como un relámpago, el mismo relámpago ha debido ser nube por mucho tiempo antes de revelarse como luz.

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

There's no tragedy in nature, only process -- and therefore no triumph, either.

Yet we humans have the hubris to think we can build eternal cities, stop the aging process, control the climate

I don't believe in writer's block, writing well is very easy; it's writing horribly, the horrible work necessary to do to get to writing well, that is so difficult one may just not be willing to do it.

There's been a lie told. I've told it. I'm going to let the truth reclaim me. If I can't survive that process, so be it.

Creation is a process where something seems to come out of nowhere. You are an example of this, because you exist right now, but prior to your conception, you did not exist as a physical entity.

All living things are looking to gain an advantage for themselves, but the process also imposes a burden on them. Generally speaking, the potential gain right in front of you causes you to forget the potential disaster right behind you. The two are connected." Chuang Tzu

Some jobs in medicine require a certain ruthlessness to complete successfully; detachment is necessary to inflict pain in the process of effecting a healing

the curious alchemy of cookery, that process of making the transfer of life from one being to another palatable.

I don't have assistants and things in the studio.

It took a bit of talking through administrative people, but only once did an attorney try and get in the way of the process and say their artist couldn't do it.

I've always found that I have to audition, but that's a process that I kind of enjoy. I enjoy the challenge, and 'We're The Millers' was the same. It was a long audition process that I had to go through, but I enjoyed the challenge of that.