The Process Quotes

Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process.

The water color process takes me and itself to a destination I hadn't even known existed... Whatever I put down on the page, the paint will dry as it wants to.

Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.

A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.

I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of anything is really just a track.

Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal.

I believe that quality level is determined primarily by the actual design of the product itself, not by quality control in the production process.

Meditation is the process of understanding your own mind.

I have thought about the nature of this creative process and have reached a somewhat aberrant conclusion. I don't understand it and I don't think anyone else does either.

...for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.

Being in front of the camera, you never got to see the whole process from the conception of the script all the way through to the filming process.

The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.

The ego is not harmonious with happiness and spiritual development. In the process of spiritual transformation we refine it. In the fire of love we melt the ego down.

People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.

The creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography.

Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process.

When I'm feeling confused by my awakening process, that usually means I'm on the right track.

For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.

As a human being, I'm work in process.

The process of developing superior strategies is part planning, part trail and error, until you hit upon something that works.

The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.

Any state with an initiative process is on our radar.

I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of improvising your life.

My other creative outlet is knitting; aside from being fun, it is my antidote to the film business: I have full creative control, there is no development process, and I can self-finance.

Knowing what thought process goes into constructing a line helps an actor know how to deliver that line because you understand the intention behind the writing.

I don't really go through a process, it goes through me.

I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings.

[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.

Marriage - as its veterans know well - is the continuous process of getting used to things you hadn't expected.

Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.

What does literature do for me? I think I solve problems in my writing. They may be my problems, but perhaps others share them, and in the process of working these through, I hope to entertain.

In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality. It's part of my job.

Set small goals along the way and don't be overwhelmed by the process.

Rainbows is a pretty honest look at my approach to life and love. While I admit to not exactly being an angel, I do try and live life to the fullest and give as much as I can of myself in the process

There are a lot of idiot fund managers out there who add no value to the process at all.

If you had to define stress, it would not be far off if you said it was the process of living. The process of living is the process of having stress imposed on you and reacting to it.

I don't have a publisher yet, so I'm not in the process of that next stage and I don't know what that's going to look like. So I feel like I finished stage one [with my book].

I'm known for being very enthusiastic about using technology. A lot of the attraction is the way that it streamlines the process and takes a lot of the drudgery out of it.

The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.

The whole world is there for you. Gifts will happen, but only if you are patient with life itself, the shooting process, and your own limitations.

There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them.

I worked with Sidney Lumet years ago, and we had a long rehearsal process, and he would tape out the entire set on the stage, so I stole that from him.

When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective and his process, which to me is a lot like the artist.

You can then further enhance the process of writing by forming the clear intention that your Higher Self will influence your writing.

I have a new respect for filmmakers, that's for sure, 'cause it's not easy. If I'm allowed to, I'll be directing for the rest of my life. I love the process.

Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves.

Public control of the political process requires public financing. The restoration of our American Democracy depends upon public financing.

Legal immigration is a process. You learn everything about the people coming in. You find out how many of 'em are prone to vote Republican. You don't ask 'em this; you just learn.

As you get older, it's always a process of self-love, learning how to really do that for yourself instead of trying to find it outside yourself.

Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul.