Quotes About Process

The struggle is lost from the beginning, long before the victorious party or army conquers state power and 'betrays' its promises. It is lost once power itself seeps into the struggle, once the logic of power becomes the logic of the revolutionary process, once the negative of refusal is converted into the positive of power-building.

A whole world of horror is contained in the process of definition.

If you're a writer, the problem is that, when you try to call a halt to thinking about your novel-in-progress, your imagination still keeps going; you can't shut it off.

You know, it's not only writers who have this problem, but writers really, really have this problem; for us, a so-called train of thought, though unspoken, is unstoppable.

Imagining the stories you want to write, and waiting to write them, is part of the writing process—like thinking about the characters you want to create, but not creating them.

I will stay very little while, for as I am in a train of writing now I fear to disturb it—let it have its course bad or good ...

Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs.

The process by which money is created is so simply that the mind is repelled. Where something so important is involved, a deeper mystery seems only decent.

Biological systems are the product not of logic but of evolution, an inelegant process. Life does not choose the logically best design to meet a new situation. It adapts what already exists. Much of the human genome includes genes which are "conserved"; i.e., which are essentially the same as those in much simpler species. Evolution has built upon what already exists.

And the way one goes about answering a question, one's methodology, matters as much as the question itself. For the method of inquiry underlies knowledge and often determines what one discovers: how one pursues a question often dictates, or at least limits, the answer.

Indeed, methodology matters more than anything else.

In fact, biology is chaos. Biological systems are the product not of logic but of evolution, an inelegant process.

It takes as long as it takes.

Sometimes in a nervous frenzy I just fling words as if I were flinging mud at a wall. Blurt out, heave out, babble out something—anything—as a first draft.

Since you may take a month, or ten months, or several years to turn one idea into a piece of writing

Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process.

Art is a process, not a product.

Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!

Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits.

Education is a right, it's a journey, it's a process, and it's something we have to stand for, as hard as it is.

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

The root of democracy is in mass education. This foundation becomes stronger, when the citizens of tomorrow, our children are also educated about the electoral process.

When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.