Quotes About Process

When God wants to make a mushroom, he does it overnight, but when He wants to make a giant oak, He takes a hundred years. Great souls are grown through struggles and storms and seasons of suffering. Be patient with the process.

anyone in recovery will tell you, setbacks are part of the process in long-term change. Rather than beat myself up, I simply asked God and my friends to help me get back on track.

The fundamental difference between a social network explanation and a non-network explanation of a process is the inclusion of concepts and information on relationships among units in a study.

Jess drew the way some people drink whiskey. The peace would start at the top of his muddled brain and seep down through his tired and tensed-up body.

My best advice for aspiring writers is to read a lot and write. Don't worry if you don't get your first, fifth or tenth novel published, if you keep going you'll make it. Also read how to write books as they may make the process a bit quicker.

What would happen, I wonder, if I stopped questioning and doubting what I do, stopped judging my own efforts, stopped critiquing the sentences I write, and begin instead to simply trust the process- not just the ups and downs of my work, but everything else as well, the endlessly evolving process of life itself?

A novel in progress doesn't have a clear, forward process. It's messy, like a beloved, balky child.

What occurs under the public gaze with so much pomp and ceremony is often the conclusion, or mere ratification, of what has taken place over weeks or months within the walls of such houses.

Though you must understand, it's still work in progress. And it's not always easy for a layperson to understand the way these things slowly take shape.

Thank God for your amazing powers of persuasion." "Yeah, if only they worked when he was really pissed. And really pissed off." "Still, you need to teach me how to do that sometime, so I can use it on my dad, get whatever I want." "Like you don't already." "Maybe. But I'm always looking for ways to fine-tune the process." He shook his head and waved me to the truck.

Real invention is a process of repeated, crushing failure that leads, very rarely, to a success. If you want to succeed faster, there's nothing for it but to fail faster and better.

El Espíritu no es un estadio particular ni una ideología concreta ni tampoco un dios o una diosa preferidos sino la totalidad del proceso de desarrollo, un proceso infinito que, aunque se halla completamente presente en cada uno de los estadios finitos, deviene cada vez más accesible en cada nueva apertura evolutiva.

Quality combines people power and process power.

Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.

All of this has to be understood as part of a process leading ultimately to a treaty that will give an international body power over our domestic laws.

The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.

Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.

The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.

Bread takes the effort of kneading but also requires sitting quietly while the dough rises with a power all its own.

Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative process. Don't just brainstorm; praystorm.

An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement.

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.

I don't dislike everything I do. Especially with a film, you don't have an easy relationship with it when it's done because it's been your life.