The Process Quotes

I am trying to be in that alchemical soup of human transformation. I am trying to process, reconcile, forgive, let go, and grieve, when necessary.

When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self.

Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative process. Don’t just brainstorm; praystorm.

It's always a good collaboration between the actor and the writer and the director to try stuff out, during the process.

Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language.

We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because it is an alien force to which we have to submit.

I discovered science, and in the process I hope I became a better environmentalist.

A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.

The journey is made easier when we can accept that the process of living is designed for what matters to come through us tenderly.

Trying to find the story within the story was hard. Filmmaking is such a reductive process in a strange way and you keep whittling away to what is essential.

It's not a fun process. There is no need for the team and a player to be on opposing sides a week or two before spring training. It's good to be on the same page.

By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."

You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.'

I love being on sets with very seasoned directors as well as very new directors. Every time is a discovery process. You learn something new every time.

Often times, I'm surprised by what I'm writing or what I'm playing, and then that inspires me to keep going with it, so it ends up being a very adventurous process.

Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.

Perhaps the reassuring thing about grieving is that the process will not be cheated.

I don't think I've ever been particularly scared of death - but scared of dying, the process. It doesn't seem to be a good way of doing it.

We were not unmindful of the difficulties involved. So we decided to go through a process of self-purification.

I'm trying not to let the anger and the violence that erupt take over my life. I guess it comes with the growing process, I don't know. A little mellowing.

When leaders are willing to talk through their own decision-making process, making visible that values are an important consideration, this sends a powerful signal to employees.

Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.

Using human rights commitments more effectively, either as part of negotiations in the WTO or as part of the trade policy review process, poses issues of equality in a practical venue.

Thinking through quotes, which to say scouring a range of texts for insight, is one way to outline the process of thinking/feeling through a subject.

I feel like I have a lot of novel ideas, but they often come up while I'm already in the process of working on a book. You have to watch out with the slutty new idea.

The only way we will ever reduce the debt and balance the budget is if America beats Washington and tea party activists take over this process.

Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits and comment letters and blue-ribbon committees? Not so tough, it turns out.

Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.

Usually form seems to find me in the process of writing a poem, though I have nothing against starting out with the form.

In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process.

I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.

The 90s were the decade in which studio filmmaking became a much more purely corporatized process, when their crassness ceased to operate on such a relatively individual scale.

Faces in the everyday impress us as hives of subtlety. That impression must be sharpened in photography, which discloses only a microsecond of the face's behaviour, immersed in a social process.

I love the finished product, but I find working in the studio a chore - I use an old-fashioned setup, so the recording process can be frustrating.

I cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control.

There is nearly always uh, a process of wanting contingency plans made in the military.

I do respect the political process and those that cover politics on a regular basis. It's just not for me.

I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing process.

The spiritual world needs two revolutions: One is to separate God from religion and the other is to separate religion from God! This purification process will make God less human and more universal.

There were certain elements of the healing process I could not capture. And even if I was right in the science, I could be wrong in the spirit.

I'm not a feminist, but I just think it's a really cool process working with a woman as a director.

One of the things you learn being in the public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious issues, and, in the process, really help people.

I was either going onstage or going into an interview or getting on a plane. You can't really feel everything fully when you don't have the time to process.

I don't really talk about my process very much, because I feel like if I give something away, it might not come back.

You didn't have to work to keep your fear up, your energy up, or your anxiety. It is all kind of built into the process.

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

The person who creates from the noise simply adds to the noise. The person who creates from a place of listening, however, can actually make something worthwhile and enjoy his work in the process.

As you embrace the process-oriented approach described in The Practicing Mind, you'll achieve better results in any endeavor.

When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn learning itself - by years.

What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it.