The Process Quotes

For me, the process always has to be pretty intense. I could never write just two or three days a week. It had to be every day.

I sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty and a lot of fighting off doubt. It's all a part of the process of being or becoming a writer.

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

so it's always a process of letting go, one way or another

Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.

I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.

My neck is too arthritic to snap around. The big shift in my perspective that happened in the writing process, however, was the paramount importance of the "West" epitomized by Cincinnati.

Those who try to "break on through to the other side" not only cannot predict what they may find there, but are themselves too often broken in the process.

I'm interested in art, and I think about the process of making art. It's part of my personality, my experience of the world, so it ends up in the movies. It's where my head is.

No two situations are identical, but with years of experience you can usually find a comparison to something you did before, which shortens the process of deciding how to approach a job.

People can't figure me out; they can't process me. I don't expect them to. You can't process me with a normal brain.

I look at my career and how I'm doing it now. I feel like there is something authentic in that process that I still try not to over manipulate. When I feel something, I try to listen to that.

Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.

In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.

Every day you are bombarded by so many different things. When you sit down to process everything, it can become interesting visually. You can incorporate a lot of those things that you internalize.

A lot of my work is process-oriented. I delve into my work and sit alone in silence and work with the material and process it, like talking to yourself.

My artistic process involves pens, gesso, acrylic paint, and markers, all on vellum. I use a window painter's technique and paint on the backside of my image before I mess with the front.

I would love to be a fly on the wall watching other directors and actors to see what their process is like.

Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your inner life.

There's a certain thought process about actors that they are in Hollywood and they sit around pools and get suntans and just get offered jobs.

Canonization in modern times is a very, almost scientific process.

The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.

I enjoy the process of TV; I like the pace of it; I like the continual work.

The blind audition process can be nerve-wracking.

We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.

The letting go is an energetic process that moves us in a different flow of reality beyond the illusion and into more of a free-flowing liberation space.

That's what I love about the Pleiadians. It allows people to start understanding their own human process and understand the dynamic that is going on on the planet right now.

The Galvins like to think about certain things that most people think are impossible, and then we like to engage a process to try to make them possible.

I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

The idea right now - and it may evolve - would be a live-action movie where some of his characters would be animated. To me, this movie is very much about the creative process.

Honestly, in retrospect, I would wish for future generations to have the ability to have a coming out process that was less alcohol-soaked than mine was.

There are things about signing on to a process over the long term that protect you from the buffeting winds of change.

Even eternally free people are enslaved by the process of living.

...no way could I fall in love. I just couldn't go there yet. Settle for less. I didn't want to process through anything. I didn't want to pick up any pieces. Lower my expectations.

I really believe it's the moments we can't talk about that become the rest of our lives. It's the moments we can't process by telling a story that destroy us in the end.

Or maybe...just maybe this whole process is our training wheels towards something bigger. If we can reflect and know our lives, we might stay awake and shape our futures.

You're always kind of shifting and changing and it's a really exciting process.

If you want to be a writer, you must be in love with the process of writing, whether you achieve financial success or not.

If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the human psyche and how we process information.

There's usually some process by which a potentially great idea gets prostituted into something lacklustre, or by which the wrong idea gets put forward.

While I respect my cousin Annette Sykes commitment in engaging in the political process, I do not endorse or support any political party.

Am I aging? The pros and the cons? Well, you know a lot more, at least until the time you start forgetting it all. Actually, aging can be a fun process, to some degree.

I've been through the process qualifying for the World Cup, which is an amazing, two-year process. It was an honor to represent the U.S. and to represent the city of Los Angeles and California.

I love working with actors. I grew up with a lot of actors. All my friends are actors. I love that process.

I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good.

Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes.

Even when you cherish democratic ideals, it is never easy to turn them into effective democratic institutions. This process will take decades.

Directing is such a crucial part of the writing process; you start directing and you see what does not work. "Oh, God, what was I thinking?" and then you can rearrange it.

I think anytime we talk about transforming in capitalist society, we are talking about a process not a particular event so you can't talk about a socialist revolution.

American citizens have been killed abroad by drones with no due process, no accountability, no judicial review.