The Process Quotes

True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience

If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.

All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new.

I think God is a pretty fair guy, so tithing is a pretty fair process.

My life was one very long process of lying and lying again, to figure out how to cover those other lies.

I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.

It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.

In the process of helping some (perhaps most) people to more utility and justice, the state imposes on civil society a system of interdictions and commands.

I see my studio like a laboratory, where I work like an investigator - it's almost forensic. I love the discovery process in painting.

My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.

In the process of deeply accepting our own inner experience, instead of being identified with a story of a limited self, we realize the compassion and wakefulness that is our essence.

Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.

The best thing is to find something you really love to do and enjoy that process for the rest of your life.

Creating value is an inherently cooperative process, capturing value is inherently competitive.

Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.

This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries.

By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's going to make a difference in someone's life.

No longer in a relational universe, can we study anything as separate from ourselves. Our acts of observation are part of the process that brings forth the manifestation of what we are observing.

I am fascinated by the whole process of what it's like to be alive, whether it's unbelievably uncomfortable and horrible or whether it's quite nice

Teachers, parents and school administrators: Today's teachers can create a Planet of Peace. The communication process you will learn by reading Nonviolent Communication is the cornerstone.

Few ideas are in themselves practical. It is for want of imagination in applying them that they fail. The creative process does not end with an idea-it only starts with an idea.

The attack is that process by means of which you remove obstructions.

To me, it is a process, a process that starts with raising awareness, engaging international partners on this issue, and being committed to a different course of action.

Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves.

Maybe life is a process of trading hopes for memories.

You can't process me with a normal brain.

Why would you want to invest with a guy whose thought process says, "If a second layer of fees is good, then let's add a third layer.

The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.

A spiritual process is not a divorce from life. It is an irrevocable love affair with life.

I love the process of making films and an incidental satisfaction is the fact that most of them made money.

You will have wonderful surges forward. Then there must be a time of consolidating before the next forward surge. Accept this as part of the process and never become downhearted.

Spiritual process is not about chanting a mantra or closing your eyes, spiritual process is essentially about enhancing your perception.

Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.

In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.

Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation.

The ultimate goal of Jungian psychotherapy is to make the symbolic process conscious

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

When you come out of the other end of a long process, working with a character [you realize] this character has really shaped my ideas.

I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.

To take sides with life and experience how we can transcend ourselves is a process that has many names and faces. Religion is one of those names.

Fall in love with the process, and the results will come.

Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or "filiation"), the Text is without a source - the "author" a mere "guest" at the reading of the Text.

The process of growth is obviously critical to my understanding of the land and myself. So the process is far more unpredictable with far more compromises with the day, the weather, the material.

The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.

Once you realize that the way you exist right now is not enough, that there is something more, your spiritual process has already begun.

Nobody wanders his or her way to a dream, and nobody achieves a dream by accident. Don't shortcut the process and risk cheating yourself out of your dream!

Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.

In terms of form, all the projects interest me equally, although there are obviously large differences according to the scale and process of each project.

My primary process of perceiving is muscular and visual.

Throughout all of human history slaves have been expensive capital purchase items. And today they're disposal inputs like styrofoam cups to an economic process.