The Process Quotes
I'm just not political. I have opinions, but there's nothing about the process that has ever interested me. I'm 22, and this is the first interview I've ever done in my life.
It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.
There is the process of enlarging a watercolour, which actually amounts to copying its good points and improving its bad ones, and is interesting proportionately as the latter increase.
You are able to create an environment so that the creative process can take place and that you can get people to perform at their highest levels.
I haven't had writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly.
Playful arising is authorized by both risk and trust in the process and in oneself. To be truly playful and improvisational one must not look for results.
I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
Animating is a very slow, pain-staking process and the animators become the actors at that point.
My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.
For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life.
My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.
SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.
If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It's a process of innovation.
Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable--and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way.
I think that the process of making a film is an underrated factor in how that film turns out.
A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes.
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
Being in love makes me vulnerable. Intimacy on that level can be so exposing. Accepting that vulnerability and allowing myself to be completely transparent is an ongoing process for me.
Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.
Of course, the process of curating is different from art making. Exhibition-making is a process that involves collaboration with various participating artists.
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
And I thought, there's a sloth near. There's a sloth here, it's close, it's gonna happen. And I didn't know how to process that, because my entire life had been waiting for this moment.
No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion.
Starting a startup is a process of trial and error. What guided the founders through this process was their empathy for the users. They never lost sight of making things that people would want.
Two basic values, autonomy and solidarity, serve as helpful prompters in any decision-making process.
For the time it takes to make the film, you are treated like a cosseted pet. Then the process is over, and you're hung out to dry. It's like being a mink.
Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.
I spent about a year and a half doing technical post work on 'The Fountain'. Although I do like the process, I think my favorite part of filmmaking is the actors.
Bliss becomes blissful with practice. In our own bliss the desire, desirer and process of desiring are united - they are one. Desire is fulfilled at its source.
The live show allows me to transcend myself, because it's not about me anymore. The writing process is very much about me but then the live show is not. They feel really different.
Rejection process is not fun. It's the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward.
It is quite possible to speed up the healing process to the part of the body that is injured. This all has to do with the release of chi.
My kids and I make pasta three days a week now. It's not even so much about the eating of it; they just like the process. Benno is the stuffer, and Leo is the catcher. They've got their jobs down.
As children, we are remarkably aware. We absorb and process information at a speed that we'll never again come close to achieving... we are learning about our world and its possibilities.
Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.
Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time.
Education is the process by which one mind forms another mind, and one heart, another heart.
I don't think I'd ever want to direct. I don't think I have as much discipline to direct as I would like to have, and I don't want my hair color to not go grey during that process.
Several very good friends of mine have died of AIDS. I spent a great deal of time with them when they went through that process.
The teaching process becomes most interesting for spiritual seekers once they've managed to hit the lower samadhis. However at that point many seekers become very egotistical.
In the esoteric teachings, a transference process takes place between teacher and student where knowledge is actually transmitted from one to the other. This requires that the student be receptive.
I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.