Process Quotes

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.

Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives.

Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.

The whole process of this record was an education for me as a musician.

It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.

I'm so uncoordinated.

The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process.

Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

This has not been a legislative process worthy of the Senate. Members of the Judiciary Committee, as I just said, were implored to save their amendments for the floor. Then, when we got here, we were told no amendments could be accepted.

A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.

I do this for the sake of myself. It's a selfish process. I don't really have any expectations from anyone for your comments or your reviews or your previews.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.

User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.

There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.

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

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.

People feel they are not participating in the decision-making process. Decisions are exclusive to those at the very top. You have grown up with crony capitalism and it creates ever more resentment.

NSF is the only federal agency with a proven track record of selecting education projects through a rigorous, careful and competitive process that draws on a wide variety of experts from outside government.

If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.

It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship.

Even when I do really big pieces, I do them strips by strips - so you have to paste, you have to involve people. It's a whole process. And I like that. For me, that's where the artwork is.

Actors, I don't think, ever really grow up. I'm hoping that that rejuvenating process applies to me, too. It has so far. I've been very lucky.

Change is not an event, it's a process.

Music is an important part of my writing process.

The current diversity visa program does a disservice to our immigration policy and to those immigrants who have moved through the more traditional process that allows them to lawfully reside in this country.

I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.

When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.

I know how demanding the process of creation is.

I felt that the studio recording process makes you stand still too long.

If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.

I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.

Lent is a time to renew wherever we are in that process that I call the divine therapy. It's a time to look what our instinctual needs are, look at what the dynamics of our unconscious are.

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.

I believe really deeply in the pilot process because you learn things about tone and casting. Even some of our best shows have had substantial re-shoots and reworking before they've gone on the air.

I have had the auditioning process go on for two weeks or three weeks. I am always incredibly anxious. The audition and the wait is definitely the hardest part for me.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

I've started the adoption process... I really want to be a mommy.

You know, we're not on stage, we're not doing a play, so we don't have a relationship with the audience but going through that process and also just hearing how much people love the film, you feel like you do have a relationship with the audience.

I don't really go through a process, it goes through me.

I was not prepared for the actual process itself; having to go to the shop and having some molds done.

The process is intense and the producers, who are intelligent men, are bringing in new people for a fresh look at a complicated project that has been in the making for 10 years.

I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, 'Look, I want to be very clear about what I want.' I just - I don't want a peace process, I want a peace result.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process.

I'm never offered any sort of roles. I need to audition in a typically lengthy process to receive roles.

We are different people - you get a different take on the band whoever you speak to. Somehow, at the end of it, it goes through the filtering process and out comes the Radiohead thing.

I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.

David and I got cut out the editing process on that. We were able to affect it more than not. We sent in our notes, we were able to see cuts. We weren't allowed to see dailies and we weren't allowed to sit in the editing room and just work.

The studio is a laboratory, not a factory. An exhibition is the result of your experiments, but the process is never-ending. So an exhibition is not a conclusion.

I never had one day that I didn't want to be on the ice, because I always had an objective for that day. I had a rigorous plan and schedule in place that I had to adhere to. It was a step-by-step process of slowly but surely inching toward the Olympic Games and using every day as a series of goals to be accomplished.

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.

The Palestinians are facing a historic junction at which they will have to decide whether they want to remain stuck in a corner of extreme fundamentalism, which will cut them off from the entire world, or whether they are ready to take the necessary steps. My role is to assist in building this process.

I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.

I had a nightmare about being on a cruise ship and the ship going down. It was an arduous process of the ship going down and we knew it was going down. There was everyone I know and love on the ship.

It just gets easier in that you become more you in the process.

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

I like to cook Indian food when I can. I find the process of creating a home-cooked meal to be unwinding.

I think the funds that have been pledged at Euro Summit, combined with the outcome of the private sector involvement process should be sufficient in order to support financially the Greek Economy.

This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.