Best 1260 quotes in «process quotes» category

What looks like resistance in many cases is rational responses to incentives and ingrained resource-allocation processes.

What moved us was not so much what would it do for South Africa, but there has been a great keenness on the Continent that the location of the Pan African Parliament must add to its credibility. And, so we said, fine, it's a contribution to this process of the democratisation of the African Continent.

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

What the artist must aim at above all else is this: to produce, by any process whatever, a work which by the life and humanity emanating from it communicates to the beholder . . . .

When a company creates a product that directly or indirectly adversely impacts the health of people, that product must be regulated. The process by which its created must be regulated. No company has the right to injure people. No company.

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

When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor's cycles. Doing what? Doing nothing?

When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process.

When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.

When it comes to my art work I would say that I am a perfectionist, although my sketchbook, and my process, is a mess.

When I say that we have met the Martians and they are us, I am using colorful language to suggest that we may have been seeded in the process of panspermia.

When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.

...when it comes down to making work that really sings, I don't know if I can teach any of it. I don't even know if I can do any of it half the time. It's so much about failure, it's so much about making pictures that are so utterly boring and overstated, you're endlessly disappointed. And in that process you hopefully find something that draws you back and calls to you.

When it comes to immigration, I think Americans expect that our immigration process is orderly and it is legal.

When it comes to the challenges of the actual process, I soldier on as best I can, on my own.

When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.

When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.

. . when the initial excitement of playing starts to evaporate, good habits are needed to sustain the learning process.

When profits are pursued by geographic interchange of goods, so that commerce for profit becomes the central mechanism of the system, we usually call it "commercial capitalism." In such a system goods are conveyed from ares where they are more common (and therefore cheaper) to areas where they are less common (and therefore less cheap). This process leads to regional specialization and to division of labor, both in agricultural production and in handicrafts.

When the media gets into creating their own product and then deciding to cover it, they are becoming part of the process and, therefore, could be damaged.

When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go where we've already been. If process drives the outcome we may not know where we're going, but we will know we want to be there.

When one is true to oneself, when one is authentic, one becomes true to the evolutionary thrust for self-optimization that exists within oneself and within the universe. And that evolutionary thrust is a continuous unfolding process.

When the so-called think tanks began to replace the thought processes of human beings, I called them the aseptic tanks.

When we assist Him in His mission of saving souls, we too will be rescued in the process.

When we mediate, we are raising the kundalini through focus, through concentration. There is a metaphysical astral process that's taking place.

When we look at chimpanzees . . . we get this extremely fine-grained view of evolution, and as a result we understand a lot more about the processes that are changing our own genome over time.

When we have learned the process of faith for receiving healing, we have learned how to receive everything else God promises us in His Word.

When you begin the process of unhooking from the outer world, you can find literally hundreds of places where you have given your power away and drained your life force while guaranteeing the status quo.

When you are simply observing your breath, you are perceiving an automatically unfolding process in your body. By contrast, when you are observing your wandering mind, you are also experiencing the spontaneous activity of a process in your body.

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.

When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

When you start a company everything is going to feel like a mess. And it really should. If you have too much process, too much predictability, you are probably not innovating fast enough and creatively enough.

When your happiness comes primarily from the happiness of others, you know you have moved from a 'me' experience to a 'we' experience. And the whole problem-solving and opportunity-seizing process changes.

When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another.

Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.

Where is democratic process or popular sovereignty for the endangered population? It cannot be "given" or "allocated" by some other power without that same power claiming the right to withdraw what it gives.

Wherever there's capitalism there's this inclination toward simplicity. There's also a human need to process complicated things by turning them into something else.

Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?

Why this reluctance to make the change? We fear the process of reeducation.

Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or "filiation"), the Text is without a source - the "author" a mere "guest" at the reading of the Text.

Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.

Why not do as much as you can, and learn as much as you can about each process?

Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process.

With Corpse Bride, I saw a lot more of it during the process because we were changing things a lot. When I came onto Corpse Bride, it wasn't a musical.

Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate parts and putting them together to form something cohesive.