Quotes About Process

The thing about making butter is that it feels like it'll never be done, almost right up to the moment when it is done. If what you want is butter, you have to keep going, even if you only half believe you'll get there.

Writing is easy. All you have to do is sit down at the typewriter, cut open a vein, and bleed.

the mastery of historical destiny is a tortuous process in which powerful forces may be beguiled, deflected, and transmuted but never simply annulled or defied.

Once the unanimity comes about, the crowd seizes on the victim who emerges from the process, and it refuses exchange for another victim. The time for substitutions is over, and the moment of violence has sounded. Pilate comprehends this.

The Gospels suggest that a mimetic process of rejection exists in all communities and not only among the Jews. The prophets are the preferential victims of this process, a little like all exceptional persons, individuals who are different.

We are all at different places in our healing process. Do not become invested in getting someone who is not yet where you are to understand you. They truly cannot hear you

Sometimes I think they are writers who do not write. That "writers write" is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers that write at all.

Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.

Oh yeah, 'coming out may be more of a process than an event.

When you live with intention, your primary focus is the process rather than the end result.

Modus omnibus rbus. (Plautus Poen. 238: sc. est.)

The outstanding examples are still Cardozo's Nature of the Judicial Process18

When people say they're frustrated, it's actually a verb. When people say "I have doubts," they've turned the verb into a noun and made it so that it becomes an event or a thing. When people say, "I have frustration," they don't actually have a bucket of frustration. They're in the process of being frustrated. That is an activity. When you turn it back into an activity, you can find out so much more about it.

Thinking should always be an active process where you think in a way that gets you the results you want.

Thinking isn't a passive process unless you do it passively. Thinking should always be an active process where you think in a way that gets you the results you want.

the Bible contains the record of a dynamic, developing tradition of thought, and the aim of interpretation should be to let Scripture involve its reader in its own process of thought, so that the reader's own thinking may continue in the direction it sets

Indulgence is a long-term process full of thousands of moments.

Life is a process--just one thing after another. When you lose it, just start again.

Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn't work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right just before they go on to the next one.

In our system, rights are almost always procedural (for example, to a fair process) rather than substantive (for example, to food, housing, or education).

Of course, ownership of education is about much more than grades. Helping children to love learning itself, and to see education as a process of self-discovery and of recognizing their aptitudes and gifts so they can build on them for their college major and their career—these are the real measurements of educational success and the real areas where we want our children to feel equity. So our task is helping kids to feel ownership

For the scientist the analytical process does not diminish the splendour of what he or she sees. Every detail added is an extra stanza added to a great epic poem, one that is never complete, nor yet ever tedious in its particulars

People hated to take their disagreements to the President; it was as though a failure to agree somehow reflected badly on each of them, and consensus, rather than clarity, was often the highest goal of the process.

Maurice Nicoll says all history is a living today. We are not enjoying one spark of life in a huge, dead waste. We are, instead, existing at one point "in a vast process of the living who still think and feel but are invisible to us.