Quotes About Process

For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.

You have to grow about 800 grapes to get just one bottle of wine. If that isn't an argument to finish the bottle, I don't know what is.

From vine to finish. A single grape the start of it, this unlabeled bottle right here in my hand the end of it, the eight hundred grapes inside.

butter in a golden lump, drowning in the buttermilk. Then Ma took out the lump with a wooden paddle, into a wooden bowl, and she washed it many times in cold water, turning it over and over and working it with the paddle until the water ran clear. After that she salted it. Now

Grief isn't a neat series of stages. You can jump around in the stages, you can get stuck at one point or the other, and you even get to revisit stages you've already finished. Grief isn't a neat, orderly kind of thing. It's messy, and it sucks.

But desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. The more my uncle Toby pored over his map, the more he took a liking to it!—by the same process and electrical assimilation, as I told you, through which I ween the souls of connoisseurs themselves, by long friction and incumbition, have the happiness, at length, to get all be-virtu'd—be-pictured,—be-butterflied, and be-fiddled.

I love the process of learning a thing. It's doing a thing I find so boring.

Whether you are happy or whether you are sad, it is wise to remember you are really in process.

Science is the process of thinking God's thoughts after Him.

As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.

Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong.

We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it's not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out.

Real intelligence must be fiercely capable of investigating every aspect of existence, including the very process of knowledge that we call science .

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the participant in the economic process, lacks objectivity.

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.

The real difficulty about volcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop.

We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable product of any definite process.

It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence.

In order to be a better writer, one must always write.