Quotes About Process

I don't try and be competitive with auditions. When I go on one, I kind of just forget about it.

When we first put 'Let It Be' out, I had to cut out a lot of stuff that I really like and wanted to stay in there. The stuff in the new DVD has a lot of the stuff that had to be cut out. So for me, it's like the egg is now complete.

I hardly ever go into the studio with a work complete in my head. It emerges from communal activity.

I've never even watched one of my films since they're completed.

I haven't read for pleasure in 35 years. I mean, I get a lot of pleasure from what I read... For me, it's gotten so that it doesn't seem as though I've read a book unless I've written about it. It really seems the completion of the reading process.

The only way for me to compose is intensively. To pick at it over a long period doesn't seem to work.

In the 1990s music was a beautiful collaborative process between the composer, lyricist and director. They would exchange ideas and magic used to happen.

I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.

In the design process, there's a need to be culturally comprehensive.

A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.

I do not go down and sit in front of the computer and make myself write; that's not my style.

Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.

To me, Berlin is as much a conceit as a reality. Why? Because the city is forever in the process of becoming, never being, and so lives more powerfully in the imagination.

The conclusion I came to was that even if I couldn't sell books, I still liked the process of writing.

It typically takes bipartisan work to build enough consensus to get things through our legislative process.

I got my process down, I got my way I go about things and I surround myself with good people around me and they've done a great job of protecting me.

American elections should be for Americans. And the idea that we would have foreign nation-states coming into the American electoral process, or the information surrounding an election, is really, really bad.

I suspect many people have the problem that they type much more slowly than they think. Consequently, they keep resynchronizing their thought processes with what they have typed so far, and they match a later part of the thought with an earlier part that they have typed.

I suspect that writers and other creators are never really finished with any work.

I suspect you've noticed that making art can be lonely.

Usually, I would mistrust a book if it took that long to write. Usually, if it isn't done in two years, I suspect there's something wrong and throw it away.

Night raids are only the first step in the American detention process in Afghanistan. Suspects are usually sent to one of a series of prisons on U.S. military bases around the country. There are officially nine such jails, called Field Detention Sites in military parlance.

The system of creating opportunities for those who were by law excluded, you've got to do that. But you mustn't create a perception that the process is devoid of competitiveness... devoid of building a world class, sustainable black business community.

Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.