Quotes About Process

1. Nature possesses a temporal character: it passes, like time. 2. Nature is only ever process: we only ever grasp it in its manifestations, without these manifestations ever exhausting it. 3. It is essential for Nature to pass. There is not Nature on the one hand, and its process as attribute on the other. Nature is pure process. It is comparable to the being of a wave, the reality of which is only global and not fragmentary.

If we want to understand the process of Nature in itself, we could say that Nature is the memory of the world.

Fiction is largely the process of writers solving problems of their own creation.

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

The Axioms are about speculation, not psychological self-help, and therefore they have no advice to offer on how you overcome these obstacles. That is an internal and individual process; the how is probably different for each of us.

o capitalismo atual, que se desenvolveu a ponto de dominar a vida econômica, educa e seleciona os sujeitos econômicos de que precisa por um processo de sobrevivência econômica dos mais bem adaptados.

What is most beautiful in this world of ours has been created by man's labour, by his clever hands; all our thoughts and ideas spring from the process of labour, and this is something the history of art, science and technology convinces us of.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

He was like a long beaker in chemistry class, and the top was always bubbling over because some interesting process was taking place inside

I cannot explain how it begins, or why it happens, what strange alchemy puts such things in motion.

Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one!

Next, it fastens that same thread to the bottom of the twig. Then it hangs

Books are never finished. They are merely abandoned." Only thirty percent of published books turn a profit, so we can rule out material motivation.

Blue Plate Special was the most difficult book I've ever written, as well as the easiest. The material was all there. I just had to find the thread, weave it through, and tie it together at the end. No big deal. Ha! It was agony a lot of the time. Ecstasy the rest of the time. Such a roller coaster. I kept vacillating between "I can't do this, it's too hard" and "God, this is fun.

Tottumaton kirjoittaja saattaa kuvitella, että ensin mietitään mitä halutaan kirjoittaa, niin että se on valmiina päässä ennen kirjoittamista, mutta oikeastaan ei voi tietää mitä ajattelee ennen kuin alkaa kirjoittaa, sillä kirjoittaessaan ajattelee

Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of today as strange in that they seem to associate shame and even sin with the very process of conceiving new human life. Perhaps centuries from now scholars and historians will be classifying them as 'sterility cults.

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Passing a healthcare replacement bill is a lot like trying to put socks on a rooster

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.

They must also be expert in the principles of organizational design, business process improvement, and skills development and management.

you build a team of competent people whom you trust, you establish goals and metrics to monitor their progress, you translate higher-level goals into specific responsibilities for your direct reports, and you reinforce them through process.

No matter where you land, the keys to effective delegation remain much the same: you build a team of competent people whom you trust, you establish goals and metrics to monitor their progress, you translate higher-level goals into specific responsibilities for your direct reports, and you reinforce them through process.

He would have planned to engage in a systematic learning process—creating a virtuous cycle of information gathering, analyzing, hypothesizing, and testing.