Best 1260 quotes in «process quotes» category

A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation.

A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.

A consultation process is what some authority sets in motion preparatory to doing what it intended all along.

A crisis of confidence is so common that it should be considered a universal part of the adoption process.

..Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for one’s own use - need not be synonymous with exploitation. This is especially true of cultural appropriation. The “use” one makes of what is appropriated is the crucial factor.

Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.

A design career is a process of learning better and better what you know instinctively.

Adjust your doctrine - or just minimize doctrine - to attract the world, and in the very process of attracting them, lose the radical truth that alone can set them free.

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

Adoption is rewarding. But the process, as we have already detailed in some particulars, can be expensive, exhausting, and hard to sustain on a dream, much less a whim.

A family is created throughout the process, and it's always difficult when you lose someone.

A farmer does not grow something in the sense that he or she creates it. That human is only a small part of the whole process by which nature expresses its being.

A flower is not better when it blooms than when it is merely a bud; at each stage it is the same thing — a flower in the process of expressing its potential.

After all, if you had the complete decision process, you could run it as an AI, and I'd be coding it up right now.

A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

Ageing is a process of exchanging hope for insight

A garden is a kinetic work of art, not an object but a process, open-ended, biodegradable, nurturant, like all women's artistry. A garden is the best alternative therapy.

A good process produces good results.

Agriculture is the process of turning eco-systems into people.

All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new.

All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.

All investors must come to terms with the relentless continuity of the investment process.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.

A major part of the meaning of life is contained in the very process of discovering it.

All writing is a process of elimination.

A lot of my work is process-oriented. I delve into my work and sit alone in silence and work with the material and process it, like talking to yourself.

Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories prevail.

Ambrose, your presence is the horseshit frosting on the horseshit cake that is the admissions interview process.

And I'm sort of deconstructing the process of what marks came first, what came later. Every aspect of the image is interesting to me to dissect and understand.

America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.

A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.

And I thought, there's a sloth near. There's a sloth here, it's close, it's gonna happen. And I didn't know how to process that, because my entire life had been waiting for this moment.

And I've always loved commercials. I like working out how to organically weave a brand's message into the writing process. It's like an improv show, where comics ask the audience to throw out a word and a skit is built around it.

And my experience is the best titles, for me, emerge in the process of writing. They don't usually come at the very beginning and hopefully they don't come at the very end because then it's getting late in the day.

And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.

An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

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

An infant always learns. The less we interfere with the natural process of learning, the more we can observe how much infants learn all the time.

An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.

Any resistance is not only normal but necessary-it is part of the creative process.

Anxiety is not only an inevitable part of the writing process but a necessary part. If you’re not scared, you’re not writing.

Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change.

Any disaster is a learning process.

Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no longer works for his customers but for the market.

Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.

A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.

A piece of the miracle process has been reserved for each of us

...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.

A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding.