Quotes About Process

The key to flow is to pursue an activity for its own sake, not for the rewards it brings."--(psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on the state of being he calls "flow")

Patience is not passive waiting. Patience is active acceptance of the process required to attain your goals and dreams.

Stay positive. When you resist change, you are trying too hard to control the outcome and not paying enough attention to the process.

Religion is a living process. When the Spirit takes hold of a man to transform him into a child of grace, working faith in him, and opening his eyes to see the boundless riches of grace, the work goes on continually. There is growth of knowledge, faith, and hope. The more the spiritual process advances, the more does religion become distinguished from all its outward forms, and attain likeness to the infinite benevolence of God.

In learning any art the important things to learn are, first, Principles; and second, Method. This is true of the art of producing ideas.

Perfection itself is boring; it's only everything leading up to it that's interesting.

The path is never easy, and you may take some L's along the way, but never lose belief in yourself or become so insecure that you step off the path for an easier, safer one. The risky, difficult path is usually the one that leads to your true destiny, to your true calling. So always respect the process, and never give up no matter what.

Brugge, 14 mei 1978 Ik wil mijn lichaam onderwerpen aan folteringen. Mijn lichaam pijn laten lijden. Mijn lichaam laten sterven. Mijn lichaam laten oprijzen. Om zo zo in het proces van dood en wedergeboorte mijn lichaam los te weken van de realiteit en het te schenken aan de kunst.

How do you know a piece is finished?:) It's never finished. The subject is never exhausted. -Louise Bourgeois

True creativity comes from enjoying the moments, which then fulfill themselves, and a part of the creative process is indeed the art of relaxation, the letting go

Every first draft is perfect because all the first draft has to do is exist. It's perfect in its existence. The only way it could be imperfect would be to NOT exist.

Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.

After having the 4-5 wraps, you are now done with wrapping around the bead, so you should now finish on the sides.

It is doubtful that real personal change can occur without the conscious and painful process of self-criticism that is required to reject power and ego.

Never get old. It's a ridiculously uncomfortable process Ath Creator should be made to find a cure for.

Wir können Kornblumen nicht befehlen, Getreide zu werden

Strive to get what you want, what you need, especially if your intentions are good and nobody gets hurt in the process."

There are times in life when we need to allow a sad memory to run its course."

Bringing something into physical form can be a way not only of expressing but also integrating what's inside.

When we start designing something, we sketch out ideas with a big, thick Sharpie marker, instead of a ballpoint pen. Why? Pen points are too fine. They're too high-resolution. They encourage you to worry about things that you shouldn't worry about yet, like perfecting the shading or whether to use a dotted or dashed line. You end up focusing on things that should still be out of focus.

People are curious about how things are made.

Lancaster says that the magic around a reinvention intervention is that the people involved in the process have a say but the establishment—the leadership—doesn't. "I was there as one member of a team wearing jeans and working alongside everyone else," says Lancaster, "not as a boss, owner, or CEO.

After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.

la justicia no es sólo cuestión de fondo. Sobre todo, es cuestión de forma.