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Quotes About Process

Photography wasn't even considered part of the art world until fairly recently. I find it ironic that some people in the world of fine-art photography consider digital photography as somehow "less artistic," when it is merely a change in process, not vision. The debates will always be there, but your vision is yours alone.
~ Richard Olsenius
great truth comes over him: Trees fall with spectacular crashes. But planting is silent and growth is invisible.
~ Richard Powers
But what did psychological mean anymore, except a process that did not yet have a known neurobiological substrate?
~ Richard Powers
In a matter of months, the Canadian physician developed a distinctive process for making illuminating gas from bitumen with coal oil as an intermediary. When he applied for a Nova Scotia patent on his process in June 1849, he used the patent to protect his products' brand names as well, calling them kerosene and kerosene gas (from keros, Greek for "wax," and -ene to associate the new products with familiar camphene).
~ Richard Rhodes
Later that day Frisch looked me up and said, "You work in a microbiology lab. What do you call the process in which one bacterium divides into two?" And I answered, "binary fission." He wanted to know if you could call it "fission" alone, and I said you could.
~ Richard Rhodes
Distilling these mixtures in turn came to be called "cracking" them—breaking them open, as it were.
~ Richard Rhodes
In the end, we do not so much reclaim what we have lost as discover a significantly new self in and through the process. Until we are led to the limits of our present game plan and find it insufficient, we will not search out or find the real source, the deep well, or the constantly flowing stream.
~ Richard Rohr
St. John of the Cross taught that God has to work in the soul in secret and in darkness, because if we fully knew what was happening, and what Mystery/transformation/God/grace will eventually ask of us, we would either try to take charge or stop the whole process.8 No one oversees his or her own demise willingly, even when it is the false self that is dying.
~ Richard Rohr
With this access point, God becomes more a verb than a noun, more a process than a conclusion, more an experience than a dogma, more a personal relationship than an idea. There is Someone dancing with you and you no longer need to prove to anyone that you are right, nor are you afraid of making mistakes. Another word for that is faith.
~ Richard Rohr
How you get there is where you arrive.
~ Richard Rohr
Trust the process.
~ Richard Rohr
All that each of us can do is to live in the now that is given. We cannot rush the process;
~ Richard Rohr
Once you wake up, as Jesus and Pope Francis have, you know that cleaning up is a constant process that comes on different timetables for different people, around many different issues, and for very different motivations. This is why love and growth demand discernment, not enforcement.
~ Richard Rohr
God has to work on the soul in secret and in darkness because if we fully knew what was happening and what Mystery-Transformation-God-Grace will eventually ask of us we would either try to take charge or stop the whole process. No one oversees his or her own demise willingly even when it is the false self that is dying.
~ Richard Rohr
Love is the source and goal, faith is the slow process of getting there, and hope is the willingness to move forward without resolution and closure. And these are indeed, 'the three things that last' (1 Corinthians 13:13). People who have these gifts—faith, hope, and love—are indestructible.
~ Richard Rohr O.F.M.
Slow, tick decides. Thinks happen slow. she isn't quite sure why this understanding of the world's movement should be important, but she thinks it is. ...Take her parents- At the time, their separation had seemed a bolt from the blue, though she now realizes it had been a slow process, rooted in dissatisfaction and need....Mybe
~ Richard Russo
Novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy. Trying something, and when that doesn't work, trying something else. Welcoming clutter Surrendering a good idea for a better one. Knowing you won't find the finish line for a year or two, or five...
~ Richard Russo
old textile mill, which was in the process of being
~ Richard Russo
People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.
~ Richard Russo
you can't understand how wine is made simply by drinking lots of it.
~ Richard Sennett
education is a process through which truth is not introduced into the mind from without, but is "led out" from within.
~ Richard Tarnas
Artemis smiled. You have done well, my lieutenant. You have made me proud, and all those Hunters who perished in my service will never be forgotten. They will achieve Elysium, I am sure. She glared pointedly at Hades. He shrugged. Probably. Artemis glared at him some more. Okay, Hades grumbled. I'll streamline their application process.
~ Rick Riordan
Each person's grief has its own life span; it needs to follow its own path.
~ Rick Riordan
working with Permasteelisa was very collaborative. They were very open to the process and grasped using this technology very quickly. The reason being, they were already computer literate. Permasteelisa installed CATIA in their office after this, and they began using it on all their subsequent projects.
~ Rick Smith