Quotes About Process

I only write maybe one or two songs every couple of years that I think are good enough to play alone without other stuff happening.

The script comes first. If that isn't good enough, you know it's gonna be a long ride.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Question Period is not part of the legislative process,and has nothing to do with it. It is a means of monitoring the Executive that the Government cannot evade.

'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.

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

In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.

Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.

In government and out, there are vast realms of the bureaucracy dedicated to seeking more information, in perpetuity if need be, in order to avoid taking action.

A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process.

It is hardly lack of due process for the Government to regulate that which it subsidizes.

Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives.

Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

When theres no sense of possessiveness or ownership in the artistic process, great things happen.

I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.

One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.

Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average.

I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.

The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative.

One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.

The joy of the creative process, minute by minute, hour after hour, day by day, is the sublime path to true happiness.