Quotes About Process

In animation, the directors are part of a huge team of animators who all have opinions, too. It's a much more democratic process. Also, the animation executives oversee things more.

One step at a time," murmured Abe. "No point in letting the larger picture overwhelm us. We'll just start at the beginning.

Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it.

Larry McMurtry and Woody Allen, still use manual typewriters to compose their books and scripts, because computers and word processors pose too many potential distractions.

People's desire and ability to think — to process, gather, and study information to ensure they arrive at an accurate conclusion — has been greatly diminished.

The texts we write are not visible until they are written. Like a creature coaxed from out a deep wood, the text reveals itself little by little.

What I think it should have done was realize that preparing customers for transitions is just like getting them through the new product adoption process, except in reverse.

The fundamental problem is that in a world dominated by those pursuing exploitation, the innovation process is light amusement at best, a dangerous threat at worst.

So before you let people blunder around reinventing the process every time someone gets the urge to innovate, it makes sense to understand it first.

Growth is a perpetual process that continues throughout our lives. And challenging ourselves is the foundation upon which growth is enhanced.

You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.

Once we see an inner pattern of mind clearly and bring to it mindful awareness and acceptance, this in itself initiates the process of self-liberation.

We repeatedly tell patients we are not in a hurry; there are no trains to catch and we don't care when the baby comes, only how! A doctor who is in a hurry does not belong in the field of obstetrics. As my chief pointed out, "An obstetrician should have a big rear end and the good sense to sit calmly thereupon and let nature take its course."

Recovery from the Nice Guy Syndrome is dependent on revealing one's self and receiving support from safe people. It is essential, therefore, that men who want to break free from the Nice Guy Syndrome find safe people to assist them in this process.

Each of us is a microcosm in which the universal process actualizes itself.

Making a movie is like chipping away at a stone. You take a piece off here, you take a piece off there and when you're finished, you have a sculpture. You know that there's something in there, but you're not sure exactly what it is until you find it.

It's just that smart people are prone to look into matters to see how they might go about buttering their toast. Then they butter their toast.

The NLP process of modeling, for example, involves making a map of a person's patterns of behavior, which may then be applied in various ways.

I know I am finished with a book when I never want to see it again. And if you have worked at it long enough to hate the sight of it, I promise you will come to love it again some sweet day. That is when you will know you did a writer's work.

Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.

There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.

I've concluded, after many years, that my mind works by process of elimination. Problem is, it hasn't eliminated anything yet.

As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there.

we need to not confuse the intellectual with the emotional (forgiving someone intellectually does not make the energy of anger and pain disappear) - and to not kid ourselves that using the tools allows us to avoid the process.