Quotes About Process

operator overloading — coding methods in a class that intercept and process built-in operations when run on the class's instances.

I don't like to talk about my songs. It's self-defeating, it is the antithesis of what a songwriter wants to do. He writes a song so he doesn't have to talk about it.

Coming out for gay people is a process, not a one-time event. Some days you feel free, open, and ready to piss on the world if they care what you do in bed. On other days, even if you've been out to yourself and others, you're ready to hide in the darkest closet—because sometimes it is safer, easier, and more secure to hide.

We thus see the artist performing a dual function: first, furthering the integrity of the process of self-expression in the language of art; and secondly, protecting the organic continuity of art in relation to its own laws. For like any organic substance, art must always be in a state of flux, the tempo being slow or fast. But it must move.

If I've learned anything it's that writing is an arduous but joyful craft. It calls upon hidden resources & the process is its own reward.

I think a good novel is a slow reveal--of the character and the plot. It's a process of discovery for the reader.

Each time I begin writing a new book I feel as though I'm learning to write all over again.

Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery!

Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.

Panicky despair is an underrated element of writing.

The next movement is still in the factory.

It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect my own thing.

It's funny, I write lyrics in a bizarre way - I'm always writing lyrics, mostly when we're traveling or walking around New York, that's when I'm writing most of the stuff.

It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.

Self-discover is not as someone would have us think, a heavy, awesome, moral process where everyone sits around and frowns. As you progress towards enlightenment, you become funny.

To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection.

I think that the Iraqi ground defenses shot down dozens of missiles. We are in the process of counting all these missiles quickly

It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it takes so long to get a book (written) -- for me, it's never quick.

Why do we wait until a pig is dead to "cure" it?

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

I just wrote a book. But don't go and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished.

We need a very progressive and strong agenda to bring people into the political process because I worry very much about the future of the American democracy where so many people are giving up.

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

Entrepreneurship is a process, not a job or profession. So be faithful to the process and remember that even when times are bad, the process will give you a glimpse of the future that lies ahead.