Best 1260 quotes in «process quotes» category

My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's going on, and you go back and bring it up to that point.

My writing has always been a rather non-linear process. I've found if I get something down, I can listen to it and other things start to come.

My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.

My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.

Naming an emotion begins the process of regulating it and reflecting on it.

No action, activity, or process is more central to a healthy organization than the meeting

Nobody ever arrives at a very big idea through a conscious, rational thought process. It comes from your unconscious.

No candidate dares to look for a new campaign model that could really enhance the democratic process. Instead we are left with the current one which makes our candidates look like hucksters.

No emergency was ever dealt with effectively by democratic process.

No longer in a relational universe, can we study anything as separate from ourselves. Our acts of observation are part of the process that brings forth the manifestation of what we are observing.

Not all teams use the same tests and certainly those tests are far from being 100 percent as well. It's part of the process.

No one can quite say what the creative process is. Because I have nothing to do with it of course. It's created in space. It's God's work, not mine.

No one ever truly comes to know, honor, or worship God without being changed in the process

NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate; it can be apprehended only by a process of reasoning - which is a phenomenon.

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

Nothing creates more self-respect among employees than being included in the process of making decisions.

Obsession and repetition in the process of making things is one constant element in my work.

Now I'm in the process of fine turning.

Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same

Now what is a wedding? Well, Webster's dictionary describes a wedding as the process of removing weeds from one's garden.

Obama still has work to do with the vision thing. Convincing voters that he has a credible, practical plan to turn the nation around is a process, not a speech.

One summer I worked at Estée Lauder, and I really enjoyed the whole creative process.

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.

Oh, I usually don't know a whole lot about a subject when I begin; the process itself teaches me a lot as I go along. Usually I know enough about one narrow area of the subject to start myself going, and then everything - including a lot more research - follows from that.

One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.

One of the big dangers is to pretend that you can follow a predictable process when you can't.

One of the things about working over decades is the cumulative and the durational effect of work. That the updating process of a work happens less in changing the work than the way it's being read for a specific time.

One of the things I will do very early in my administration is to get rid of the Johnson Amendment so that our great pastors and ministers and rabbis and - and everybody - and priests and everybody can go and tell and can participate in the process.

One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible.

Only the general manager can mold the resources, processes, and values that affect innovation , into a coherent capability to develop and launch superior new products and services repeatedly.

On the unhampered market there prevails an irresistible tendency to employ every factor of production for the best possible satisfaction of the most urgent needs of the consumers. If the government interfered with this process, it can only impair satisfaction; it can never improve it.

[On social change:] What I say is that if one country is annexed by another, its nationality is not changed overnight. Social processes are often very, very slow.

... on the whole 'blasphemy' has been a force for good in human history. It is part of the process by which millions of people have come to reject theocracy and think for themselves.

Our objective in taking these actions is to create a lean, agile structure, with streamlined and stable processes that will unleash DaimlerChrysler's full potential.

Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why.

Our prayers are granted as soon as we have prayed, even though the process of fulfilling our requests has not yet begun.

Our primary relationship is really with ourselves. Our relationships with other people constantly reflect exactly where we are in the process.

Our vulnerability to Russia or any other foreign power is directly related to how divided, partisan, dysfunctional our political process is. That's the thing that makes us vulnerable.

Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.

Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.

Out here, due process is a bullet.

Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.

Peace is a process, a way of solving problems

Pain is a part of life. It's certainly part of my creative process.

Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages of the mental process.

Part of the creative process for me is an invitation for readers to follow their imagination.

[Peace praxis is] a peace process that deals with conflict integratively.

People are deeply nourished by the process of creating wholeness.