The Process Quotes

The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

It is not the project but the living process that will be the measure of our actions.

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

I write a lot of songs people don't hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish 'em all. I don't think there's a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.

A design career is a process of learning better and better what you know instinctively.

The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.

There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.

I think it's important that members of the United States Senate spend time not just on Capitol Hill but making contact with ordinary people and engaging them in the political process.

I'm certainly not saying that my life is what success is all about. To me, success is the ongoing process of striving to become more.

The practice of S/M is the creation of pleasure.... And that's why S/M is really a subculture. It's a process of invention. S/M isthe use of a strategic relationship as a source of pleasure.

Free choice is one of the highest of all the mental processes.

Everything you do counts forever. You are an expression of the whole process of creation; you are a cocreator.

There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way.

I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies.

Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.

The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.

Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.

We have new developing ties with Japan whom always supports our democratic process and economic development.

Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines.

The Biblical story of the creation is an excellent parable of movement. The work of art, too, is above all a process of creation, it is never experienced as a mere product.

Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.

In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.

Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes.

The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.

Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

For the first time in 23 years I'm enjoying the process of supporting it, of going out and doing shows, and doing the interviews, and doing everything.

I support copyright. I mean it is intellectual property, it is the thought process of someone and those things should always be protected.

Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb higher and faster, and be much happier in the process.

The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.

There's nothing wrong with delighting in what you do. In fact, most of the fun you'll have as a poet will come about during the process of writing.

No true manhood can be trained by a merely intellectual process. You cannot train men by the intellect alone; you must train them by the heart.

Creativity is a force moving through us, and only through practice do we learn how to cooperate with it. The 'process' is like a muscle. It needs to be exercised in order to function effortlessly.

One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation.

In the action of no-action (wu-wei), a cardinal aspect of the true creative process is set forth. In wu-wei, the mind is silenced and the work is allowed to express itself.

At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.

There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.

My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's going on, and you go back and bring it up to that point.

All fresh meat is eaten in a state of decay. The process may not have proceeded so far that the dull human nose can discover it, but a carrion bird or a carrion fly can smell it from afar.

Your part in the co-creation process to attract more money in your life is to act on the ideas that are coming to you.

What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.

Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.

I don't like watching myself in the movies because I don't like being aware of the product. I like the process. I enjoy that.

My creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I'm washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious to do the work.

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.