Quotes About Process

I'm not the kind of writer that can write eight hours a day... I'm the kind of writer that the more time I have, the less efficient I am.

I've tried writing on a computer thinking it would make me more efficient, but if you're writing crummy stuff, being efficient is no help.

It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.

I love this country, and I won't let losing an election force me away from the process.

Sometimes in politics, you get a wallop in the electoral process.

The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.

I'm not always the first person to run out and see something I'm in. I don't know; for me, that's not why I did it. I did it because I wanted to act. I don't really think about the end result. I don't feel like I have to see it - for me, it already happened.

Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.

Stay engaged; be part of the process.

The difference between a film that ends up three hours and a film that is envisioned as three hours is that it's written that way.

I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.

If you just stay with it and take it scene by scene, episode by episode, all of the questions that I have, as an actor, tend to answer themselves.

I don't need music to write, but sometimes I put music on. I don't need special clothes or even my own equipment.

Music - which I could never listen to while writing before I had children - became essential to my process.

Sometimes I can really agonize over a creative project and forget that it's essentially professional play, you know?

With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over again.

Every time I write a song my approach changes.

Going to school is an everyday process; it isn't something we accomplish and are all done with.

I like to dress up every day, so I think fashion is an everyday process.

Nature is change, the continual elaboration of the new, a totality being created in an essentially open process of development without any preestablished model. "Life progresses and endures in time."16 The only part of this progression that intelligence can grasp is what it succeeds in fixing in the form of manipulable and calculable elements and in referring to a time seen as sheer juxtaposition of instants.

The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.

Only rarely do doctors in training have the opportunity to sit continuously with laboring women for hours. Most are taught to intervene in the normal process so often and so early that they have never witnessed a normal labor and birth.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. – Eleanor Roosevelt

The work of the Program focused on the alpha-theta brainwave biofeedback process and was at first funded primarily by the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH), constituting very high societal approval and support.