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Quotes About Process

That's why at the start of every season I always encouraged players to focus on the journey rather than the goal. What matters most is playing the game the right way and having the courage to grow, as human beings as well as basketball players. When you do that, the ring takes care of itself.
~ Phil Jackson
Wavefunction collapse is a generator of knowledge: it is not so much a process that gives us the answers, but is the process by which answers are created. The outcome of that process can't, in general, be predicted with certainty, but quantum mechanics gives us a method for calculating the probabilities of particular outcomes. That's all we can ask for.
~ Philip Ball
The revolution of blood is a necessary historical process.' The people who say that it is NOT inevitable are the only ones who, to my mind, understand revolution. In other words, the only ones who understand revolution are the ones who say that a nonviolent revolution is possible.
~ Philip Berrigan
After the fiasco, Kennedy ordered an inquiry to figure out how his people could have botched it so badly. It identified cozy unanimity as the key problem and recommended changes to the decision-making process to ensure it could never develop again.
~ Philip E. Tetlock
Zimbardo and Boyd Time perspective is the often nonconscious personal attitude that each of us holds toward time and the process whereby the continual flow of existence is bundled into time categories that help to give order, coherence, and meaning to our lives.
~ Philip G. Zimbardo
On the contrary. In this case I think there's every chance the republic would fall apart if the legal process was observed.
~ Philip Kerr
To have a degree of control over a result two things are essential. First, you must have some influence over the process leading to the result. And second, you must use that influence to impose a relevant direction on the process, helping to ensure that a suitable result transpires.
~ Philip Pettit
Waste not, want not' is the Engineers' motto, Miss. Properly processed human ordure makes very useful fuel for our city's engines. And we are experimenting with ways of turning it into a tasty and nutritious snack. We feed our prisoners on nothing else. Unfortunately they keep dying. But that is just a temporary setback, I'm sure.
~ Philip Reeve
The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
~ Philip Roth
I don't ask writers about their work habits. I really don't care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they're actually trying to find out, "Is he as crazy as I am?" I don't need that question answered.
~ Philip Roth
To define the limits of the Kenosis, and to adjust it to the immutability of the Godhead and the intertrinitarian process, lies beyond the sphere of exegesis and belongs to speculative dogmatics.
~ Philip Schaff
The idea came to me complete from start to finish – a most unusual occurrence, as any writer will tell you, for ordinarily a story has to be struggled with, changed around and mixed up.
~ Philip Van Doren Stern
IT helps to think of the whole development thing as a process; you go in looking like a girl, and you'll come out at the other end looking like a woman. The stuff in the middle is just what everyone goes through, it;s almost never much fun.
~ Philip Van Munching
Op mijn leeftijd ga je niet in één klap dood. Je bent als een huis waarvan de luiken worden gesloten, waar de meubels een voor een worden weggehaald, waar eerst het gas wordt afgesloten, dan het water, en ten slotte het licht, totdat de deur voor de laatste keer op slot wordt gedraaid en de sleutel wordt weggegooid. Een grappige gedachte. Niemand ziet het, maar ik glimlach.
~ Philippe Claudel
Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process.
~ Phillips Brooks
Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now... Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.
~ Phillips Brooks
The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.
~ Phineas Parkhurst Quimby
The healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.
~ Phoebe Stone
I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.
~ Phoebe Stone
You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.
~ Phyllis Gotlieb
Véritable défi à toutes les formes d'économisme, l'ordre littéraire (etc.) qui s'est progressivement institué au terme d'un long et lent processus d'autonomisation se présente comme un monde économique renversé : ceux qui y entrent ont intérêt au désintéressement ; comme la prophétie, et spécialement la prophétie de malheur, qui
~ Pierre Bourdieu
In the first place, sensation (aisthesis) is a corporeal process which we have in common with animals, and in which the impression of an exterior object is transmitted to the soul. By means of this process, an image (phantasia) of the object is produced in the soul, or more precisely in the guiding part (hegemonikon) of the soul
~ Pierre Hadot
There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
I take a pretty expansive view of craft, which is to say I don't see craft as just being technique - it's also process; subject; ideas and feelings; visions and dreams; the words that are put down and the words that are avoided.
~ Laura van den Berg