The Process Quotes

The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.

Nobody ever arrives at a very big idea through a conscious, rational thought process. It comes from your unconscious.

A recursive definition does not necessarily lead to a recursive process.

The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery.

In the process of making anything, a person moves beyond personal expression to make something that stands by itself. The work acquires its own internal validity, its own integrity.

My worryingly paradoxical thought process could be summarized thus: Thank God I don't believe in the secret rulers of the world. Imagine what the secret rulers of the world might do to me if I did!

The predominant difference between television and film is the pace to which you work, but the development of the character or the process for playing the character isn't necessarily different.

Movie-making is the process of turning money into light. All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on a wall.

It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainment.

Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress.

Craft is part of the creative process.

Is insight dependent on a material process? Has insight a cause?

My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.

Getting our military back on stable footing won't happen overnight. We must start this process now, since future engagements are likely and allies are scarce.

I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations

Process can not be inferred from product any more than a pig can be inferred from a sausage.

Painting is of course multifarious, and for all of us the goal is, gaining control without impeding the creative process.

When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.

My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.

Forget goals. Value the process.

I love disagreements. I love the democratic process. If I'm in a room where everybody agrees, I start to nod off.

Life is a process of discovery, of new perceptions.

Everyone wants to belong, or be a part of something bigger than themselves, but it's important to follow your heart and be true to yourself in the process.

As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating.

Making one brilliant decision and a whole bunch of mediocre ones isn't as good as making a whole bunch of generally smart decisions throughout the whole process.

When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process.

We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication to the process.

People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided at that level.

One thing that I do ask myself when I'm in the creative process is, 'Does the world need this?'

I'm excited about the ageing process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling.

Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa.

When we describe a process, or make out an invoice, or photograph a tree, we create models; without them we would know nothing of reality and would be animals.

My only advice is don't tattoo some guy's name on yourself. Ever. I've done it twice. Twice! I'm in the process of getting both removed. It's the most painful thing imaginable.

I have never come to know God, to see God, to believe in God through doing science. He's not the conclusion of some sort of process of my personal scientific investigation.

So I've seen life as one long learning process.

Patience is a purifying process that refines understanding, deepens happiness, focuses action, and offers hope for peace.

I was not prepared for the actual process itself; having to go to the shop and having some molds done.

To change an opinion without a mental process is the mark of the uneducated.

I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns.. your thought process goes on.

We began this process, and fantastic things happened — to the way we felt, to the way we made other people feel, and the interaction among us. All this simply by using positive words!

During the rehearsal process I got thrown off the horse.

We didn’t want to disrupt the creative process. We have the chance to make the films we want because the films are not expensive. It’s very rare to be able to do that. It’s completely pure.

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

The democratic process is only as great as the people who participate in it.

The creative processes are so mysterious.

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

People say life begins at conception, I say life began about a billion years ago and it's a continuous process.

When I ran, I didn't have any money. Now, it requires raising hundreds of millions of dollars just to get the nomination, and I don't care to be involved in that process.

The rehearsal process in general is about trusting one another.

I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity.