The Process Quotes

When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time.

My life isn't focused on results. My life is really focused on the process of doing all the things I'm doing, from work to relationships to friendships to charitable work.

I've seen time and time again the way that the process of trying to say something dignifies and improves a person.

I think that's one of the maybe under-discussed aspects of process - the difference between a good writing day and a bad one is the quality of the split-second decisions you made.

I'm fascinated with actors, and I've never quite understood the process.

For me, the fiction writer's job is to take the small, stupid process of learning to use an iPhone - and suddenly you're the guy who's asking your daughter, "When I go on Facebook, can it see me?"

Sometimes I just turn on the TV and I'm like, wait a minute, that guy [Donald Trump]? It's incredible that he did all those things and he still won. It's hard to process.

I am told that very early on in this transition process, to expect that [Donald] Trump will announce his nominee for the Supreme Court.

The market is in the process of correcting itself.

I would like people to understand the rationale for my embryonic stem cell research decision and how the process became distorted over time.

The question is: How do we succeed in Iraq? And you don't succeed by leaving before the mission is complete, like some in this political process are suggesting.

The education of this president [Obama] is a protracted and often amusing process . . . as he continues to alight upon the obvious with a sense of profound and original discovery.

Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order.

I wish there were some photographic process by which one's mind could be struck off and transferred to that of the friend we wish to know it, without the medium of this confounded letter-writing!

As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway.

It's been a long time coming but the reality is that this process is at a crossroads.

Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.

The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.

The United States is very important, too important in the civilizational process of the world. It's difficult to move, to make a difference in establishments like the one the US represents.

If the constitutional process is not brought to a successful conclusion before the European elections, then the whole process might run out of steam.

Falling in love makes the unknown known. Falling out of love reverses the process.

I could give a flying crap about the political process. We're an entertainment company.

When we get emotionally and spiritually involved in helping a person who is in pain, a compassion enters our heart. It hurts, but the process lifts some of the pain from another.

The challenge is always as a writer, is this going to work, because it's a very intimate process, and I tend to be very introverted and insular, and when I write, it's in my head.

An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process.

I would write about issues and people I met along the way, but not about the process and the life of being on the road.

Teach positively, never abuse kids in the teaching process. I believe it is cowardly to teach in a negative way, to insult players, or challenge their manhood.

Something happens inside of us when we are courteous and deferential toward others. It is all part of a refining process, which if persisted in, will change our very natures.

Reading in a sound booth seems very strange. Everyone has a process they are comfortable with; this was uncomfortable for me.

Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us.

Forgiveness isn't simply an option or a good idea; it is mandatory for our restorative process.

There are dozens of unfinished or aborted projects in my files, but I can only assume they don't get done because they're not robust enough to struggle through the birth process.

I've made a few albums in such an autonomous way; it often has been exhausting. It's almost difficult to enjoy the process when you take on so much.

Evil did not catch God by surprise. He had a rescue plan, and He's still in the process of working out His plan.

This art of acting is a process I love very much. It's an unbelievably fulfilling experience for me and I look forward to building upon my art in the years to come.

Making that final commitment is really hard. Because once you decide to move forward, it becomes a whole process which is really hard to stop.

Digital held no romance for me at all. I hated it. I miss my big cameras. The working process, I miss it.

There are a lot of decisions to make, creatively. Now, with digital, you can really be the author of your own work. From the beginning to the end of the process, you control everything.

I love pop music, but I also love noise music, IDM - anything really, I get something out of most kinds of music. I just need to enjoy the process.

There was never a really serious, thought-out process for delivering arms appropriately.

I don't want to make a habit of just playing small roles, because I really enjoy the process of being part of a film and staying on it for the length of time that everybody else is as well.

My mom was always making me clothes. We'd go to the fabric store, pick out patterns, and it was a creative process. I heard that word a lot growing up: creative.

I think that the process of figuring out what kind of leader I wanted to be was challenging, because as an actor, you work alone, really.

The races are in fact disappearing, although the process will require thousands of years at present rates

What is too often forgotten is that nature obviously intends the botched to die, and that every interference with that benign process is full of dangers.

Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.

It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship.

It's clear Israel has suspended the peace process, despite the so-called moderation of the Arab world, because it has no interest in peace.

Sharon has subverted the whole process by turning it into something sequential and conditional and, of course, by making himself the interpreter of the road map.