Quotes About Process

Everything looks like a failure in the middle.

Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.

Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.

You can't expect success. It's a process. Part of getting to success is failure.

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.

It is not your part to guide or supervise the creative process. All you have to do with that is retain your vision, stick to your purpose, and maintain your faith and gratitude.

I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.

No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion.

When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.

Change is an inseparable part of life. Some changes bring progress and prosperity while some do not but there is no power that can stop the process of changing.

In order to attain one's goal, a person must be conscious of the thought process that impel or impede him or her.

My life isn't focused on results. My life is really focused on the process of doing all the things I'm doing, from work to relationships to friendships to charitable work. If I focused on results, if it's only about the ultimate results, I'd be a failure in Sudan, I'd be a failure in film, I'd be a failure with my friendships, I'd be a failure in relationships. I look at it as an ongoing process.

It's how you go through the process that determines the outcome.

Instead of a last-gasp sprint, death can be a marathon.

Most of my writing usually feels to me like a bad idea, which makes it hard for me to know which ideas feel bad because they have merit, and which ones feel bad because they don't

She has always had a secret liking for this part of the embroidery, the 'wrong' side, congested with knots, striations of silk and twists of thread. How much more interesting it is, with its frank display of the labour needed to attain the perfection of the finished piece.

How much more interesting it is, with its frank display of the labour needed to attain the perfection of the finished piece.

Consultants, being the intelligent people we are, have formalized the guessing process; we call it a proposal.

La única forma lógica de servir a la «fuerza» primigenia era mediante el «proceso». La idea consistía en contribuir a impulsar el proceso hasta el último objetivo de la fuerza: la homogeneidad cultural, política, social y económica de las naciones de la Tierra.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

We are, as a species, in the process of proving Malthus's proposition that population will always outstrip resources.

Frustration is one of the greatest things in art; satisfaction is nothing.

All things manifesting in the lower worlds exist first in the intangible rings of the upper spheres, so that creation is, in truth, the process of making tangible the intangible by extending the intangible into various vibratory rates.

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.