The Process Quotes

One of the things is my process requires a lot of repetition. I can probably drive people crazy because I'm interested in playing a song twenty times in a row.

There is a water soluble sugar that is in beans called oligosaccharides and they are indigestible by human beings. They ferment during the digestion process and hence you have gas.

I can't speak to how Michael [Douglas] approached it in terms of his process.

This "human thing" is the permanent process of seeking the sacred through revealing what is hidden. It is an ever ongoing and indefinite process of understanding and interpretation.

If the aging process is controlled in a similar way in worms and humans, then we can use what we learn about worms to speed our study of higher organisms.

When an institution goes through an inflection point, it has to institutionalise itself. That institutionalisation requires governance to be put in place, governance processes.

I am a firm believer in the importance of democracy, not only as the ultimate goal, but also as an essential part of the process.

Life is bigger than processes and overflows and dwarfs them.

I am happy and proud that during one year of presidency, my initiatives have been strongly supported by the people and society and we have launched the process of vitally important state reforms.

For us, there's an inherent process when you're ending something to be thinking about the beginning, as writers.

One of the things I've learned is there's no lesson to be learned. You have to resign yourself to the fact that mistakes are going to be made at any time in the creative process.

I tend to like order in almost every other aspect of my life, but for me, the process of writing is really chaotic and decadent and indulgent.

For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing.

I don't necessarily think I look to books for ideas, but sometimes when I'm in the process of reading a great book, I just think about it all of the time.

To look for a job before looking deeply inward is likely to short-circuit the process of finding your calling.

Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.

Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.

My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.

It's easier in an urban world to cast the blame outward. So I've learned a lot about my own process in that way.

For me, the whole process involves envisioning this Ghost World comic book in my head as I'm working.

I've often heard academics disparage non-academic writing in terms that suggest it could be a negative in the tenure process, irrespective of the quality of academic work under review.

The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts.

We're making more and more decisions every day. I think a lot of us feel overloaded by the process.

Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.

Directing is a very long process, and I have to be in love with it if I want to give up two years of my life and live with it from beginning to end!

When you can bring yourself to write about it one day, you will find it all less painful. It is a catharsis of sorts, but the process can be brutal. Don’t do it until you’re ready.

The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.

Earning success is hard. The process is laborious, tedious, sometimes even boring. Becoming wealthy, influential, and world-class in your field is slow and arduous.

Every other writer's process is sort of vaguely scary and appalling.

Christmas is about giving. Be outrageously generous. Have fun, enjoy the process....then keep it up all year.

In the writing phase, normally I try not to envisage any particular actors because I like to let the characters sort of reveal themselves in that process.

Writing about craft has forced me to think more about my own writing technique, and to break down my process in ways that have been enormously helpful to me.

I sort of feel we have to owe some respect to the process and owe some respect to the electorate and the people who voted Donald Trump, on the assumption that they have something to teach us.

Putin's an egomaniac, so there are two ways he can process his ego mania. He can say, "Oh, I stood up to the U.S.," or, "Hey, I'm essential to the world order."

If you go in a confirmation process, you're going to be asked about the embarrassing or stupid things you said. You should have a view.

In a certain way, you get some new tools to work with, but I don't know if it ultimately makes the creative process any easier.

The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, 'Lo, on this day I shall forever put away childish things and begin clipping coupons to go to Wal-Mart.'

I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand in the creative process. That's part of why I got into music in the first place.

I don't think it's that strange that a show has sort of a bumpy beginning. It's just part and parcel of the process.

People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.

It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice

If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.

The better you work to find the pain point and problem facing a diversity of users, the more clearly you can DEFINE the goal when you implement the process for culturally intelligent innovation.

I love the casting process. It's a cliché but I think it's the most important part of the process. I really enjoy it too. I love putting that jigsaw puzzle of people together.

The process of just being in front of people, having to stand up for your ideas, and ask - and then ask people for money, which is a very hard thing to do.

Healing is the process of reestablishing the integration between body, mind, and spirit, creating opportunities for the return of the memory of wholeness.

The decision to give an indicative date for a return is a mistake. It degrades the process. It degrades human life.

The "result" of life is death, so when you create, the importance is not on the result but on the process of creating in and of itself.

I usually find that the process of discovery is more interesting than the answers.

I think when I work with actors it's all about a process of learning to be private in public, instead of performing in public. Which is what women do: we perform, especially our sexuality.