Quotes About Process

Nonviolent communication does not mandate that we remain completely objective nd refrain from evaluating. It only requires that we maintain a separation between our observations and our evaluations. Nonviolent communication is a process language that discourages static generalizations, instead, evaluations are to be based in observations specific to time and context.

Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally.

The process approach employs narrative explanation that notes the contributions actions and events make to a particular outcome and then configures these parts into a whole episode ( Polkinghorne, 1988). It

Karen Dandurand's view that Dickinson did not publish because poetry to her was never finished. She looked upon her verse as constantly in play and the work of a lifetime. Her attitude is reminiscent of Paul Valéry's assessment: "A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

The one good thing about having emotions was that it accelerated the repair process for my memory storage. (The bad thing about having emotions is, you know, OH SHIT WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO ME.)

Jade was having her first clutch at the end of the second rain season, and Moon was beginning to have doubts about his ability to survive the process.

One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.

It Takes Awhile to Create Nothing

Imagine waking up in the morning and going to the kitchen and to make yourself some breakfast. You take some soybean grits, mix them with some tainted cattle meat, throw in a few beaks and feathers, smother your concoction with processed sugar syrup and chemicals, then sprinkle on a few preservatives and dyes. Pressure cook the hell out of it, let it cool-and dig in!

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

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

Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.

Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country to receive submissions from the general public, also our opponents.

Artists never finish a project — they just abandon it.

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

The Buddha does not see nibbana as a special, metaphysical place to go to but as a process of dissolution that one can achieve here and now.

It's almost impossible to reconcile creativity with cleanliness. The sculptor gets metal dust all over his studio. The writer must wade through a clutter of notes, books, and crumpled drafts to get to her desk. The rock musician must weave through a tangle of cables, black boxes, guitar stands, and song notes to sit down and create.

The world is filled with too many of us who are inclined to indicate our love with an announcement or declaration. True love is a process. True love requires personal action. Love must be continuing to be real. Love takes time.

He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify [them] and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the LORD." Malachi 3:3

Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives.

I've often thought that the process of aging could be slowed down if it had to go through Congress.

Onion soup sustains. The process of making it is somewhat like the process of learning to love. It requires commitment, extraordinary effort, time, and will make you cry.

Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had.

How can you tell when a piece is finished?'I asked. 'You can't,' he said flatly. 'All you can tell is when you can't do any more to it. And then you need to stop because if you don't, you will spoil it.