Quotes About Process

I spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge.

Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.

Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.

Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process.

Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.

All that is happening in art is part of a process of exploration and discovery. I hope to live for a few more years so that I can catch glimpses of the oncoming future.

If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the Earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface.

The audition process is always grueling. You always hope to just get offered things, and sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesnt.

Hope is not strategy. Hope fits with vision, but we must have a strategy and a process to make our vision become a reality.

The process of writing is a process of learning; and much has become clearer to me in the attempt to transform my original rough notes into what I hope is an intelligible presentation.

I discovered science, and in the process I hope I became a better environmentalist.

Ageing is a process of exchanging hope for insight

To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get written.

The healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.

I wanted to change history and preserve humanity. But in the process I changed myself and preserved my own.

Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

Humor is basically a cognitive process. And it's a creative process not only on the part of the cartoonist but on the part of the viewer.

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

She needs tampons. Evidently it helps with this process. We have to secure the location of where they are being sold, acquire them and then get them back to my mate posthaste.

Sometimes I don't even know why I'm writing what I'm writing...I'm just following these people around and taking notes.

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding in an hour.

Writing is like making love, editing is like giving your great grandfather a sponge bath.

Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms as invention.

Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.