The Process Quotes

I know how demanding the process of creation is.

[The main character] is in a forever-growing process. I feel the movie [everybody Loves Somebody] did that very well and not finishing off as "a woman's life ends when she finds the right guy".

As an artist, you're never happy with anything you do. It's part of the process.

My view is that knowing languages is part of the process of becoming a cultured person.

Philosopher is becoming God in the process called life.

I studied shades, textures by painting after the Old Masters, the classical European paintings, as part of my educational process.

With the mailorder, I wake up in the morning, I check my e-mail, process the orders, and then I just print everything out. And then for the rest of the day it's actually sitting with paper.

I'm not a perfectionist by a long shot, but self-doubt is a large part of my creative process.

As part of the process by which you hire me, you hire me. You just don't hire an hour of me to do a performance.

I was supporting other people's creative dreams and I wasn't supporting my own. I didn't feel like I could really serve people having that kind of process within me.

Even now I don't consider myself skinny, but I have put a lot of hard work into my body over the years, and in the process, I've really learned to love myself.

Art is a necessity, an essential part of our enlightenment process.

Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

[The historical] development in the international system may almost be defined as the process by which we pass from stable war to stable peace.

The process of consumption is the final act in the economic drama.

Prove beyond reasonable doubt that the process of evolution (option 3 above, under known options) is the only possible way the observed phenomena could have come into existence.

When I look in the mirror, I see an ever-unfolding process.

A great deal remains to be done in Afghanistan and the jury is out as to whether the international community has the commitment and the patience to see the rebuilding process through.

With a lot of the music I really love, like Miles Davis, you can go back and see the processes and the stages.

I cannot really be responsible for other people's thought processes.

We plan to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the preparation of the budget. We also plan to open up the process of government appointments.

Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a constant interplay between the imagining and shaping of the story.

The editing process is a necessary evil. I can write until the cows come home but it is all garbage until it gets edited.

It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.

So many people among non-scientists see science as an unassailable monolith of truth, and it's not. It's an ongoing self-correcting process.

Basically you can do anything in a film. I could have place a spaceship in the middle of a street. You can do anything, and I love to talk about this because is so organic to the process.

My brain . . . it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I sit there and have to face myself and tell myself, 'You're a failure' . . . I think that's almost worse than death.

Change is a process which has to be managed. If it's managed and managed well in the interest of the nation and the people, the likelihood is that it will end well.

I can’t help thinking about memoir as a down-and-up process: Dive down for color; come up for context. Sink back down for action; climb back up for self-awareness and gratitude.

I love being on the periphery with a group of people who have the same values that I do. People who don't get off on fame, who just like the process of making movies and thrive.

I think by default I wanted to be an actor because, on a movie set as a little kid, the only thing that you can do is be an actor. And I was really enthralled by the whole process.

I really miss the rehearsal process of theater.

I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.

There was more happiness in the process, in the build, in the preparation. The winning was almost phoned in.

I got the three things I wanted. I did my job, I worked hard in the process, and I cherish the memories, and they're mine.

The National Federation of Republican Women has a long history of helping bring women into the political process while promoting the Republican cause.

Ignorance, according to the Buddha, is our basic difficulty. Psychedelics and the process of aging make that clear to me all the time.

I grew up always knowing what I wanted to do, and I'm starting to see how rare that is. All of my friends are just figuring it out. It's a process of elimination until you find what you love.

Before I can process what’s happening, Deirdre has opened her hands and Linden has taken the ring from her and slipped it onto my finger. “Rhine Ashby,” he says. “My wife.

As actors we always say that once the person in a scene gets what they want, the scene is over. It's resolved. But life is never resolved - you're always in the process.

Direction, like time, is a general thing, the deprived of boundaries and borders. It is an endless process interception and reinterception, doubling back and adjusting.

I've realized that with each novel I seem to set out a kind of puzzle for myself. And I am never sure in the process of writing a first draft how it's all going to turn out.

Introverts process information internally, and we don't like to express our thoughts until they are fully formed.

An extrovert is more likely to share immediate reactions and process information through conversation.

Life is a process of continually reordering priorities.

Money corrupts the process of reasoning.

In pre-Trump Washington where the old rules applied, Rudy Giuliani could never survive the Senate confirmation process.

He addressed a black lawyer as "boy". That's why Jeff Sessions couldn't get through Senate confirmation process under the old rules followed by Democrats and Republicans.

I'm just learning that according to a source familiar with the transition process, President-elect Donald Trump intends to select Lieutenant General Michael Flynn as his national security adviser.

I don't usually like talking about acting or what my process is, and all those kinds of things, because I don't necessarily think it's helpful to talk about how I do my job.