Here’s something I’ve learned the hard way: everyone wants the result, almost nobody wants the process — and yet the process is where all of it actually happens. I wrote these 60 fresh new lines for the people in the middle of it: the ones showing up daily, trusting the slow work, wondering if any of it is adding up. Updated with fresh new lines on patience, consistency, and the quiet magic of the boring middle.
“Trust the process” gets thrown around a lot, but I wanted lines that say what that actually means — the unglamorous reps, the invisible progress, the days when faith is just another word for not quitting.
If you’re in the middle right now, these are for you — the grinder, the beginner, the one quietly doing the reps while everyone else shows off the results. The process is working, even when you can’t see it. Especially then. Keep your hands busy and your heart steady.
Process Quotes
A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.
A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.
A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.
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.
A film is like a mad arranged marriage, with all these people who don’t necessarily want to be with each other forced into this intimate, exhausting process.
A flapper is just a little girl trying to grow up – in the process of growing up.
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.
A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener’s mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn’t expect to go.
A judge sworn to decide impartially can offer no forecasts, no hints, for that would show not only disregard for the specifics of the particular case, it would display disdain for the entire judicial process.
A key part of the process for me is having screenings: not official test screenings, just gatherings of people, some I know and some I don’t. We ask what is working and what isn’t. So it’s not as if I’m shutting out input.
A lot of credit goes to Google TV for helping that process get started and helping to build something like Chromecast.
A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.
A lot of missions for NASA or experiments on accelerators happen through a whole process of scientific retreats, long-range planning, forming collaborations to do studies – all this kind of stuff. It’s very democratic.
A lot of people think that I grew up in recording studios and knew the whole process, but that was never the case.
A lot of these songs just came from day-to-day experiences. And it was a very natural, kind of organic process.
A lot of young policemen have told me that they saw ‘Singam’ and joined the police force because of that. Some tell me they saw the training process and want to be a cop like that.
A lot of young writers ask me about my process. They know what they want to write – but they need to know how. What’s the right way? How do the professionals do it? What’s the secret?
A louder government with less journalism does not enrich our democratic process.
A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.
A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.
A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It’s called bankruptcy. It doesn’t mean, necessarily, that the industry is eclipsed or that it’s gone. Often times, the phoenix rises out of the ashes.
A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.
A play is not a play until it’s performed, and unless it’s a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance.
A player needs to focus on one thing to be successful, while a coach is thinking about the whole process.
A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
A revolution is not an event. It’s a process. And it takes its time.
A script is not a piece of literature it’s a process.
A view of nature as dense and nonlinear is at the core of our contemporary science. Process and order emerge subtly.
Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.
Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.
Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.
Accepting that part of the process of writing is deleting a lot of what you write is soothing, at least to me.
Acting and the navy seem to balance each other out – I’ve not surrendered over to the complete process of the navy, nor have I surrendered to the ego-driven process of acting.
Acting has always been very comfortable for me, so it allows me to pay attention to other parts of the process literally while I’m acting.
Acting is a mysterious process.
Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.
Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It’s this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.
Acting is such a feminine process: you have to become the desire of others. I’m OK with this, and so is Gerard Depardieu. In many ways, he’s very feminine.
Activist shareholder resolutions do not have to pass to succeed. The process itself can be so injurious to a company that management will cave to demands.
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.
Actors have their own processes, and if you want to be respectful of their process, you’ve got to communicate with them in the language of their process, and keeping that all straight is a little bit of a head-scratcher.
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.
Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.
Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.
Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession.
Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did. It is just happening much later than other continents because of the interruption of Africa’s own historical development by the colonization of Africa by Europe.
After 40, you want to reverse the ageing process. That’s complicated for me because I spent so many years wanting to be older.
After becoming Miss World, I now have some idea of what goes on behind the camera, and that filmmaking is a tedious and time-consuming process.
After I came out of surgery – I was in the hospital for five weeks – I found that I gravitated toward very gentle sounds: chant music, solo bamboo flute sounds, a laid-back record of my own called ‘Inside.’ And the music became a very real part of my recovery process.
After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system.
Aging is not one process. It’s many different things going on that cause us to age. I have a program that at least slows down each of these different processes.
Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.
All of our songs take these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes songs will start out as a melody or some musical chord progressions.
All of our TaskRabbits go through a vetting process, which includes an online application, a video interview, a series of background checks, and then an online quiz that they have to pass before they’re activated on the site.
All this talk about writing is a little bit moot, because it is almost an unthinking process. It is actually a paradox because you are constantly making choices.
Allowing flexibility to local school districts to set their own nutritional standards and having parents involved in the process is a win-win for the students.
Along with my colleagues Mark Warner and Sheldon Whitehouse, I have been working to end the process of secret holds, which is when senators anonymously block legislation or nominations without explanation.
ALS does not affect cognitive process. Stephen Hawking, one of smartest people on the planet, has ALS. It rarely affects the eyes. It doesn’t affect senses like hearing, taste and touch.
Although environmental groups sometimes raise issues in the confirmation process, environmental protection is not central to the fear-mongering of the liberal interest groups that oppose conservative judges. But the threat to basic environmental protections from conservative jurisprudence is broad-based and severe.
Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days.
America has the potential to lead the world in energy production and, in the process, to create millions of jobs and trillions of dollars in output – generating considerable tax revenue.
Americans were outraged and horrified by this president’s reckless spending and his endless assaults on the Constitution, but no issue drove them to rise up and fight back like Obamacare – both the abominable legislative monstrosity itself and the tyrannical, corrupt manner by which Obama crammed it through the legislative process.
An apology offered and, equally important, received is a step towards reconciliation and, sometimes, recompense. Without that process, hurts can rankle and fester and erupt into their own hatreds and wrongdoings.
An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.
And also it was a process of, we lifted weights as well, in an effort to train my body to then be able to lift heavier weights when I got in Australia. So that was the first couple of months.
And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee.
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 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.
And so I would not enforce a law that would reject people and turn them away without giving them a fair and due process to determine if we should give them asylum and refuge.
Answers are what we are trying to get at; search is a process by which you may be able to get answers, but it’s not the end goal. It’s a mechanism.
Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn’t secure, isn’t necessarily familiar, and isn’t convenient in any sort of way. And that’s the excitement of it.
Any director who’s also acted understands the fact that every person has a different process and has to be approached differently.
Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There’s always a lot of people working on things together.
Any peace process after so many years of horror and terror will be long and difficult.
Any people has a right to self-determination, and now in Europe the process of diluting national sovereignty in the framework of a united Europe is more accepted.
Any Supreme Court confirmation needs to be a thoughtful process, with full respect for the separation of powers outlined in the Constitution.
Anyone who wants to be part of the political process should adopt values that are compatible with democracy.
Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.
Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.
Artificial intelligence is one of 50 things that Watson does. There is also machine learning, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and different analytical engines – they’re like little Lego bricks. You can put intelligence in any product or any process you have.
As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.
As a director, it is important to understand the actor’s process.
As a filmmaker whose first film was made with the DIY tools of digital cinema, I love how the democratization of the filmmaking process and platforms like YouTube enables people to tell stories that in previous generations simply could not be told.
As a general rule, biology tends to be conservative. It’s rare that evolution ‘invents’ the same process several times.
As a human being, I’m work in process.
As a part of preparing those lawsuits, learning about those lawsuits, I learned about the various nuclear issues in parts of the nuclear production process I guess you’d say.
As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating.
As an actor, you arrive most of the time at the last minute. You arrive at the end of the process, but you don’t realize it.
As an American, I repudiate Russia’s or any other foreign government’s attempt to interfere or meddle in our democratic process, and I would call on all Americans to do the same.
As an author, it’s a strange process to watch your novel turned into a movie. It’s tremendously exciting but somewhat voyeuristic; after all, novelists are rarely involved in the process.
As both Republican Study Committee Chairman and Majority Whip, I’ve made it a top priority to bring openness and inclusiveness into the legislative process so we can bring our dynamic conference together as we advance our agenda.
As CEO of Aetna, I was a buyer of portfolio companies rather than a participant in the value creation process. From the end of the assembly line, what happened in manufacturing wasn’t visible to me.
Process Quotes About Life
As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway.
As far as the creative process goes, I always make sure that anything that gets discussed or talked about in the record is true to form. I make it a point not to sing anything that I haven’t felt or gone through.
As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless – and absolutely essential.
As I prepare to take over the reins of your government, I ask each of you to join me in the process of governing.
As much as the Congress is criticized – and a lot of it is well deserved – the fact is there are many quiet victories if you keep your head down and know how to maneuver in the process and get things done.
As one of the participants in the Aqaba summit, I can testify that Israel fully expected the Palestinian Authority’s newly reorganized and trained security agencies to take harsh action against the rejectionists who sought to wreck the peace process.
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.
As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it’s open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.
Assurance, action, and evidence influence each other in an ongoing process. This helix is like a coil, and as it spirals upward it expands and widens. These three elements of faith – assurance, action, and evidence – are not separate and discrete; rather, they are interrelated and continuous and cycle upward.
At Pixar, of course, we have all these people, and they’re just used to our process now where it’s a discussion; it’s a discovery. It’s not individual artists going and fussing off by themselves in isolation and then handing their work in.
At some stage in the process, most mainstream pop records are being manipulated and possibly completely rebuilt on a computer, with a visual program.
At Sussex University, I developed a system called WinLocX to help with the process of translating software into foreign languages.
At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.
At the start of the process the idea is just a thought – very fragile and exclusive. When the first physical manifestation is created everything changes. It is no longer exclusive, now it involves a lot of people.
Athletes, like everyone else, at times take supplements but just have to consult your doctors and work on that. It’s a process, but it’s achievable… It’s my job to be healthy.
Barack Obama being President of the United States doesn’t mean racism has disappeared. It’s all a process, and we have to be aware that the work never ends.
Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.
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.
Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.
Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It’s just such a great buzz.
Being in a studio is quite a creative and energetic process.
Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it’s about not getting bored.
Being surrounded by diverse points of view pushes us beyond our comfort zones. And when people and teams bring multiple perspectives and experiences to the table, the discussions are deeper, the decision-making process is better, and the solutions are stronger.
Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your allies. The same process is going on today in Canada’s much larger and growing industry.
Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.
Big companies are often in the process of laying off workers. Small startup companies are the ones that are hiring. The statistics prove that’s where job growth is going to occur.
Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That’s the Russian interest in this process.
Biohackers want to tinker; do fun science; and, in the process, accelerate the pace of biotech innovation.
Biology is a software process. Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, each governed by this process. You and I are walking around with outdated software running in our bodies, which evolved in a very different era.
Bitcoin as a globally distributed public ledger – that’s the thing I’m most excited about going forward. Thinking about how to use Bitcoin in new and innovative ways. In the meantime, we have the boring uses of Bitcoin that are in the process of going mainstream.
Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.
Both my own process and that of the publishing industry are just too slow to do anything other than play catch-up when it comes to anticipating change.
But all actors go through the process, it’s hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.
But Eddie does not make all the decisions. Eddie can listen to reason; Eddie can be swayed or talked in or out of certain things. Eddie allows other people to lead in this band and to have certain roles that are very fundamental to the decision-making process.
But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn’t worth the trouble put in.
But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda – no-one else is going to do that.
But it becomes disrespectful when the artist’s process is not respected.
But it has been a long process because I’m kind of a renaissance person.
But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11.
But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.
But love is really more of an interactive process. It’s about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun.
But obviously captaincy is a long process. It takes its toll as time goes on.
But the debt limit obviously is something that needs to and will be passed. That is not inconsistent with a process and a belief that we have to get significant deficit reduction.
But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series – though not in exact repetition.
But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.
Buying a home today is a complex process, but that in no way excuses home buyers from their obligation for due diligence.
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
By augmenting the pages in the upload process with educational text regarding the type of content that can be uploaded to YouTube, we have seen a sharp overall reduction with users uploading copyrighted materials.
By modernizing the process of food preservation, Birdseye nationalized and then internationalized food distribution… facilitated urban living and helped to take people away from the farms… and greatly contributed to the development of industrial-scale agriculture.
By seeing the problem of poverty merely in terms of assistance, we overlook that our enormous economic advantage is deeply tainted by how it accumulated over the course of one historical process that has devastated the societies and cultures of four continents.
By thinking through the grilling process while still in the kitchen, you can easily gather all of the items that you might need and conveniently carry them to the outdoors area.
Can a nation use the methods of terrorism? Can it harm innocent civilians in the process? What are the costs? Where is the line?
Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took.
Cancer is something none of us are prepared to deal with. We’re here to help people through the process.
Cancer treatment is very expensive, and the process is painful and long. This is something that we have to collectively think about, on how to make it affordable.
Capitalists make money by exploiting labor and by externalizing the costs of the wastes produced by the productive process by imposing the wastes on the environment.
Carbon dioxide is unusual because it doesn’t go through the usual three phases of matter, from solid to liquid to gas, but it goes straight from solid to gas. The volume of the gas is much greater than the volume of the solid. When a solid turns into a gas, we say it sublimes. The process is sublimation.
Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.
Certainly every manager I’ve played under you take things from them. That’s just part of gaining all that knowledge over the years. Some good, some not so good, but it’s all part of the process.
Certainly from the rehearsal process with Elizabeth I think it was very clear. Well let me start again. We were initially supposed to be more combative.
Change is a process which has to be managed.
Change is not a linear process; it’s an all-encompassing process, and it’s alive in different ways.
Change is not an event, it’s a process.
Changing behaviour is a very slow process.
Chapter 11 is an expensive process that does not accommodate the special needs of farmers.
Chiki Sarkar edited ‘Mrs Funnybones,’ and she is a ruthless but kind editor to work with. The only lesson I learnt during this process was to say, ‘Yes, Prime Minister,’ and re-write.
China has made important contribution to the world economy in terms of total economic output and trade, and the RMB has played a role in the world economic development. But making the RMB an international currency will be a fairly long process.
China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to become intimate with the culture.
China’s economic transformation began with the introduction in the 1980s of market incentives in the agricultural sector. These reforms were followed by a gradual opening to the global economy, a process that accelerated in the early 1990s.
China’s many nationalities need only to be transformed into the Chinese nation and to make it a highly civilized nation; then the nationalization process will be completed.
China’s reform and opening-up programme and Europe’s integration process have both contributed significantly to global peace, development, and prosperity. China firmly supports the integration of Europe and regards the E.U. as a strategic partner that deserves our confidence.
Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves.
Christianity and Judaism have gone through the process of enlightenment, making them creative and constructive elements in society.
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
Cinema ceases to be passive and becomes active: you, the audience, are now, in some senses, in charge of the filmmaking process. You have all got mobile phones, you have all got cam recorders, and you’ve all got laptops, so you’re all filmmakers.
Cities are not static objects to be feared or admired, but are instead a living process that residents are changing all the time.
Clark Gregg and I are around the same age. He has been an actor and is a writer. But with a first-time director, there is a way to talk about things they might not know. Because Clark was an actor, though, he knew more about the process than most first-time directors.
Classified information includes much more than the actual ‘secrets’ acquired. It includes how they were acquired and the process by which related analyses were made.
Clearly, a large number of people who shouldn’t have firearms actually apply through the process and obtain firearms.
Colombia is in a risky position. They’ve got a peace process that’s going nowhere, and a drug production problem that’s skyrocketing.
Companies should have a due diligence process to determine the likelihood that their technologies will be used to carry out human rights abuses before doing business with a particular country or distributor.
Company naming is a key part of the branding process, but it’s subject to contrasting tastes and an illiquid domain name market that results in startups wasting their time during the branding process.
Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.
Conflict is good in a negotiation process… it’s the clash of two ideas, which then, all being well, produces a third idea.
Conflicts of interest’ arise when you’re not – when you’re sneaky about it, when you’re shady about it, when you’re not transparent about it. If you tell everyone, ‘Here’s what’s going on. Here’s the process; here are the people that are playing a role’ – that’s being transparent.
Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the others, the brain rationalizes the outcome after the fact and concocts the impression that a single self was in charge all along.
Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.
Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and when a dishwasher can lighten the load at the other end of the process.
Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.
Courage doesn’t grow overnight. It can be a long process.
Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.
Craft comes into acting later rather than sooner. I was somebody who had to learn through a process – a natural actor doesn’t need to.
Craft is part of the creative process.
Trust The Process Quotes
Creating a poem is a continual process of re-creating your ignorance, in the sense of not knowing what’s coming next.
Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can’t take the process too personally.
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.
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Credit ratings and risk weightings must undergo a thorough process of review and revision. No security or instrument on the planet should have a zero risk weighting.
Critical in this process of wisdom being passed down is that you also need to take it in; you need to listen to it.
Cultivating more leaders who reflect our heterogeneous society depends on universities’ transparent use of race as one of many factors in an admissions process that is accessible to all.
Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
Curiosity is the process of asking questions, genuine questions, that are not leading to an ask for something in return.
Customer discovery is the process of translating a founder’s vision for the company into hypotheses about each component of the business model and creating a set of experiments to test each hypothesis.
Dad truly believed that Christians should be involved in the political process and should make their voices heard.
Data-intensive graph problems abound in the Life Science drug discovery and development process.
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.
Dealing with a simple burglary can require 1,000 process steps and 70 forms to be completed as a case goes through the Criminal Justice System. That can’t be right.
Death is astute as a master. It’s a process that teaches people aspects of themselves.
Defense leaders should be searching for ways to reform out-of-date procurement processes, to collapse layers of Pentagon bureaucracy, and to restrain the growth in personnel and benefits costs. A critical first step in that process should be to conduct a full Pentagon audit to determine how DOD spends taxpayer dollars.
Definitely directing is the thing I like the most because this is where everything you know can be used. It’s the most personal process ever. It’s the most demanding one, but again, rewarding.
Democracy is a process.
Demonetisation is a disinflationary process. So, this will bring down prices in the long run. It will also help in bringing down interest rates.
Design is an iterative process. One idea often builds on another.
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.
Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.
Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something else.
Donald Trump was not asked by the leadership to change. And there’s no reason for him to change. He’s just won the primary process with a record number of votes, beating a field of 16 qualified candidates. So, there’s no reason for Donald Trump to change.
Donald Trump went through the process, he earned the vote, and I am not in support of overturning the will of the voters.
Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security.
During my draft process, I had Seattle come and work me out. This is one of the places where I thought I might be drafted. I’m glad it worked out I’m here.
During my jury selection process, we went through over 360 jurors. It took six months, all New York residents. Of the 360 jurors, over half of them had been mugged one time. Quite a number of them, maybe 30 40, 50, had been mugged twice.
During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
During the divorce process, I lived alone and tended to get extremely down on myself.
During the negotiation process, it’s common for misconceptions to occur, since both parties assume what the other person is saying or thinking. This can lead to conflicts or disagreements.
During the rehearsal process I got thrown off the horse.
Each film is different. Time Code was very quick – a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for some seven or eight years. But then the shooting process was very quick – 16 days.
Each movie I make has its own heroes, and the two heroes for me in ‘Arrival’ are Amy Adams and Joe Walker, the editor. We worked very, very hard, and it was, by far, the longest editing process.
Each one of us has a particular virtue and faults that make the process of becoming like Jesus different.
Each time I went to create my website, I needed imagery. It was complicated to get, the process was expensive, I had to negotiate rights. I knew there had to be a better way.
Each year thousands of embryos, no bigger than the head of a pin, are created in the process of in vitro fertilization, with the support of Congress, by the way.
Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that will expedite the research and restoration process.
Economic and technical imperatives – not any preconceived directives – will keep propelling the process of energy transition.
Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I’ve ever been privy to as an actress.
Education is a continual process, it’s like a bicycle… If you don’t pedal you don’t go forward.
Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
Efficiency innovations are a natural part of the economic cycle, but these are the innovations that streamline process and actually reduce the number of available jobs.
Either you’re for ending Citizens United, or you’re not. So, if you’re for ending Citizens United, then act like you are against corporations influencing our democratic process.
El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras have all agreed to send additional consular officers from Guatemala, from Honduras, from El Salvador, send them to the U.S. border so that we can more quickly and humanely identify unaccompanied children and process their individual removal.
Electoral victory is not an end in itself. It is intended to set in motion a pluralist process to resolve our disputes and move the country forward.
Email did precisely what I predicted, back in 1978, it took over the postal mail process and system of writing letters.
Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
Entrepreneurs see the thing they want or need, then try to figure out a process of how to get it. People who shouldn’t be entrepreneurs see the standard process they need to go through to get the thing they want or need then decide if they want to go through that process.
EPA’s role is even broader than water infrastructure and cleaning up contaminated land – the agency also has a key role in allowing projects to move forward by reviewing environmental impact statements during the permitting process.
Eric Bryant and Ethan Berlin, the creators of ‘Bunk,’ asked me to come get involved in very early process when they wanted to make a game show.
Especially where financial matters are concerned, when it comes to dissolving a marriage, any dissembling at all is strictly against the law – on penalty of perjury. You need to disclose fully and factually, which is precisely what the discovery process is all about.
Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process – in dismissal.
Even if you’re an optimist, there’s some part of you that just tries to toughen up and be pragmatic and go, ‘This isn’t gonna happen. This isn’t gonna happen.’ I really felt that way through the process of ‘Korra’ because I knew ‘Avatar,’ and I knew how wonderful it was, and I was so terrified.
Even though I grew up and I didn’t always like getting dragged to the meetings or the rallies or the speeches, I developed a very strong respect for participating in a democratic process.
Even though, theoretically, being a composer and being a songwriter are the same thing, in my brain, they are completely different. When I am in my composing mode, I go into my studio and turn that part of my brain on like a faucet. And when I finish, I turn it off. But with songwriting, that process is much more elusive.
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.
Even with my father and brother dying, I didn’t quite process the grief.
Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.
Every cell in our body is primarily water. But the water doesn’t just sit in the cell, it moves through it in a very organized way. The process occurs rapidly in tissues that have these aquaporins or water channels.
Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top.
Every day I have this crazy schedule that happened overnight – it’s a lot to process.
Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We’re putting it into pamphlets. We’re doing a publicity show. We’re becoming symbols.
Every film requires a different process. You learn about these particular actors and the particular chemistry between these actors. Recognizing when you don’t need to shoot a scene because it’s going to be cut anyway.
Every member of Congress deserves a seat at the table to be involved in the process. I will continue fighting for this to become a reality in Washington, and will be running for speaker of the House.
Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you.
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
Every record I do is a learning process for how I want to do the next one.
Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.
Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we know. We trust our process. We don’t get scared and say, ‘Oh, no, this film isn’t working.’
Every team I’ve played on has players-only meetings, players staff meetings, so this is part of the process.
Every time I work, it’s an educational process because I learn by watching other actors. My career is always going to be an ongoing study.
Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It’s a process.
Everybody is just at the start of this huge process of trying to unravel what’s going on with the 4,400, where they’ve been and why they’re back and what they’re trying to do with us in the present. And we’re trying to work out what messages they’re sending us.
Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.
Everyone has their own process.
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
Everyone knows about the substantive issues of concern, like federal health care, but very little is said about the process, the lack of accountability.
Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.
Everything about the music industry takes away from you as an artist. They’re always wondering what the next thing is: ‘What do you have?’ It’s a very introverted process.
Everything is a process… some of our eating habits consist of things we can’t change, but if we modify it a little and put some exercise in there, we can really make a difference.
Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience.
Everything was very specific and very fitted. I can’t tell you what we went through for this job in regards to full body scans and the prosthetic process that you go through and all that kind of stuff, but everything was done very specifically to fit you perfectly.
Evidence has been mounting for the key role that black holes play in the process of galaxy formation. But it now appears that they are likely the prima donnas of this space opera.
Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion.
Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.
Evolution is not an even process. There are surges, and there are micromoments. Certainly a career as an artist is that way.
Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.
Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.
Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
Failed weapons tests are necessary components of the weapons development process.
Failure is part and parcel of the process of experimenting with roles and films.
Failure will happen. It’s a normal part of the startup process.
Inspirational Process Quotes
Faith is a very intimate process that involves being sincere and truthful to a spiritual presence.
Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don’t have enough of, or the right kind of. It’s an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.
Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
Film is a collaborative process, absolutely, but I am a control freak.
Film shouldn’t be a pain. It’s a creative process.
Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.
Filmmakers have to commit to making 3-D films properly like Jim Cameron did and not do cheap conversions at the tail end of the process.
Filmmaking as a process, it’s bittersweet.
FinCEN directs financial institutions to file suspicious activity reports (SARs) to inform law enforcement of certain types of cyber-enabled crime. As the agency charged with protecting the United States from financial crime, FinCEN’s guidance does not deem financial institutions who process such transactions to be involved in a criminal activity.
Firemen have a culture of death. There are rituals, carefully constructed for the living, to process the dead.
First I wanted to be an ice skater, and then I saw ‘Bye, Bye Birdie,’ and everything changed. I’m glad I learned through the process of theater.
First, the American legislative process isn’t well suited to large and complex measures.
Florida wants to get married. We want to stop this every-two-year or every-four-year dating process where, in between those election cycles, investments in our state diminish.
Football is a personal interest which has been turned into a philanthropic initiative directed at encouraging social cohesion during the difficult process of African modernisation.
For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing.
For a long time I didn’t want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is going outside of The Strokes and The Strokes filtering process.
For films, the process is that you work consistently and constantly for 3-4 months and then leave; whereas for a play, you prepare for about a month and then continue performing it for 5 to 6 months.
For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not ‘wardrobe,’ but rather policy on women’s issues, and messaging. I was also married to a Clinton speechwriter, and observed the message decision-making process from the perspective of a spouse.
For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it.
For many, the loan modification process has been a giant sham.
For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It’s that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.
For me, it’s almost a 24/7 process. It’s not like I only think when I’m in the office sitting at my desk.
For me, it’s always an organic process. I don’t personally reach out to artists without the music being created first.
For me, music is a byproduct of this process – the human process – and the fact that I’ve managed to eke out a career with it is a happy accident more than any strategy.
For me, the audition is always the hardest part of the whole process. Once you get on set, once you’re in costume, you’re with the director, it’s so much easier to get in the headspace.
For me, the creative process is this giant patchwork of information.
For me, the healing process starts with graciousness and forgiveness.
For me, the scale of the budget is part of the creative process. ‘Swingers’ is the movie it is because we made it for exactly the right budget. Had it been made for a higher number, it would not have been as imaginative as we had to make it, given the budget constraints we had.
For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I’m working.
For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
For more than a century, states have sought to protect the integrity of the democratic process at the state and local level by regulating corporate spending in elections.
For the first time in 23 years I’m enjoying the process of supporting it, of going out and doing shows, and doing the interviews, and doing everything.
For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.
For too long, the system has been biased in favor of oil and gas developers: sweetheart lease deals, generous subsidies and a regulatory process so slanted in favor of Big Oil that often permit reviews are simply waived.
Forget goals. Value the process.
Forgiveness takes time. It is the last step of the grieving process.
Fortunately, when it comes to meat and poultry, I have the really wonderful situation of having producers and processors that produce and process a very high-quality product.
Fracking is an industrial process, but it can be done safely. It’s government’s job to make sure it can be done safely.
Franck Muller has been very supportive during our acquisition process.
Free media is very essential for the democratic process and… development.
From helping to process passports to aiding veterans with benefits and assisting with IRS-related issues, my team and I look forward to serving the residents of the 10th District.
From that moment on, there will be an irreversible process to separate Quebec from Canada.
From the Bronx to Buffalo, cities and towns in New York have been plagued by what are commonly called zombie properties. These are homes that residents abandon – often after they have received a foreclosure notice – which then languish, uncared-for, until the foreclosure process is complete.
From the standpoint of democratic legitimacy, it’s a problem if half the electorate, or close to it, declines to vote, not least because they may not feel much of a stake in the whole process.
Fundamentally, I always find that most of the films that I’ve put out are essentially the director’s cut. Part of the process with a director’s cut is the leaving behind of certain aspects of the movie that we don’t feel necessary because they aren’t part of the dynamic of the story.
Gay culture is in a coming-out process of its own. From out of the closets in the ’60s, the culture moved onto the disco floors of the ’70s and through the hospital wards of the ’80s and onwards to the streets.
Gemini is a spot bitcoin exchange. To use it, you sign up with Gemini.com and undergo the initial standard review process, similar to what you’d encounter at a traditional bank. Once you’re through, you can ACH or wire cash to the platform, then begin buying and selling bitcoin.
Generally speaking, if you control matter more precisely, you can get more efficiency out of any process.
Generally, we have competed with ourselves… because I feel that if I compete against somebody, it causes stress. I don’t want the process of growth to be stressful.
Getting married and having children is an evolution process, a live social experiment no one is documenting.
Getting our military back on stable footing won’t happen overnight. We must start this process now, since future engagements are likely and allies are scarce.
Getting past my past… was a process, a very serious process indeed.
Getting ready for a tour is a big process, and I enjoy every part of it.
Gingrich, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, and Clinton passed legislation because they understood and appreciated the difficult political process. They fought for their principles yet recognized the need for compromise to get anything done.
Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.
Globalization is the process by which markets integrate worldwide.
Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
God lets everything happen for a reason. It’s all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.
Going public is 18-month process, while an acquisition is a 6-month process. Going public means going under so much scrutiny, regulatory approval, auditing, magnified 10 times. Having the stomach to do that isn’t necessarily in my DNA. My DNA is building a product and a service.
Going to school is an everyday process; it isn’t something we accomplish and are all done with.
Grief is a process, not a state.
Growing up is mostly the process of having to acknowledge the differences between your world and the whole world.
Growth hacking isn’t some proprietary technical process shrouded in secrecy. In fact, it has grown and developed in the course of very public conversations. There are no trade secrets to guard.
Growth is a painful process.
Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.
Gujarat is developed because of its people; everyone has participated in the development process.
H.R. 5444 provides long-overdue structural reforms and service improvements to the IRS. The legislation codifies the IRS Office of Appeals to streamline the appeals process and to provide fair and impartial determinations for concerns raised by the taxpayer.
Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It’s an active process.
He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.
Here’s the thing: If you’re monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information?
Here’s what we must do: Completely reform the vetting process for immigrants and foreign visitors. Change the screening process. Come up with a new visa-application review process. Stop this nonsense of marriage-visa fraud. And in the meantime, seal the borders.
Higher SAT scores mean better college matriculation rates. So it’s no wonder that private schools in ultra-competitive environments would grease the qualifying process as much as possible.
History does not produce definitive answers for all time. It is a process.
History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state.
Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.
Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it’s too painful and time-consuming.
Honestly, in retrospect, when I referred to the actors from ‘Prince’ as non-actors or non-professionals, it was actually a great disservice to them. The fact is that they are all actors and should be viewed that way by the industry. It was our casting process that was non-professional.
Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.
Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn’t part of America’s immigration process.
How do we navigate and process painful biases and conflicting emotions and press on to be sacrificial and suffer in the struggle? And what do we do with images and depictions that, known or unknown to those perpetuating them, may contribute to the impediment of human progress?
HubSpot has used the lean startup method to build a spectacularly successful company. What I particularly love about HubSpot is that they are so geeked out on data analysis and making evidence-based decisions, which are at the heart of the Lean Startup process.
I accept the dying process. I would just like to be as healthy as I possibly can at each step and phase along the way.
I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process.
I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process.
I always imagined that having a baby is something that I’m going to keep in a private place, but maybe my curse is that all I’m going to want to do is tell everybody about what my birth process was like and what my children’s nightmares are.
I always look at ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail.’ They talked about how they wrote this movie with horses, and then they realized that horses are super-expensive and time-consuming. ‘Why don’t we just change it to coconuts?’ That’s part of my process.
I always looked at the process and the career of being a ballerina as sacred. It’s a true gift to have this talent and perform these masterworks; it’s sublime.
I always think it’s hard for any young actor to make that transition to more grown-up roles. Because you don’t want to alienate your audience who has been supportive of you for so many years, so you kind of have to tiptoe through that process.
I always thought the writing process for movies and TV shows was just a blueprint. The making of it was the thing.
I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we’re here is to be a part of this process of exchange.
I always wanna be in the process of evolving and growing.
I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff.
Short Process Quotes
I always work with two cameras. Its kind of like I’m hypnotizing the subject with the flashing. It’s a bombardment of action, flashes, and I think it helps them to ease into the process.
I am a believer in the evolutionary process, and yet I have sympathy for the friends of mine who are creationists. I don’t find the positions incompatible.
I am a huge fan of Adrian Piper: how she works, how she reveals her process in the work, how she writes about it.
I am beyond excited to share ‘Transparent’ with the world through Amazon. They’ve been so supportive through this incredible process.
I am certain more emergency supplemental bills will be needed before this process is concluded. In fact, there is a point I have repeated several times recently which keeps the enormity of this situation in perspective.
I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.
I am confident that the Defense Department understands JSTARS is a major priority for Congress and will complete the process of updating the JSTARS fleet in a timely manner.
I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.
I am extremely involved in the design process of both my brands, Winter Kate and House of Harlow 1960.
I am fascinated by the whole process of what it’s like to be alive, whether it’s unbelievably uncomfortable and horrible or whether it’s quite nice.
I am much more interested in the process than results.
I am very convinced that I did not contract Ebola in the isolation unit, because our process is so safe.
I appreciate film actors who respect the film making process.
I argued that until FBI director James Comey gives a green light to new visas, and not until we completely reform the vetting process for new foreign visitors, that the borders should be sealed.
I became a Christian at about 26 years old as I was going through the process of playing Arena football and trying to get back into the NFL and pursue my dream.
I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory.
I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.
I began training the young players at Nova Iguacu and at Boavista, and I enjoyed it. I had always wanted to be a coach, and this accelerated the process.
I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.
I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent – urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are, in my judgment, ripe today to restart the peace process.
I believe we all have the right as private citizens to endorse candidates and participate in the political process.
I can give it my all and make plays and dominate my side of the field, but it takes all 11 guys with a certain thought process that we’re going to go out there, and we’re going to win.
I can only put myself in the process and try to learn through the process. Sometimes it will go well and sometimes it won’t.
I cannot read on a Kindle. I love the physical experience of holding a book, cracking it open, and the process of making the right half weigh less than the left half. I only read hardcover books because I like the resistance and the presence on a bookshelf.
I can’t believe there is a poet who hasn’t eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy. It’s part of the process of selection.
I can’t get any satiation. My brain is wired in such a way that I – in my research, I probably have a lack of D1 and D2 receptor sites. These are dopamine receptor sites, and satiation is a process that involves a cascade.
I can’t imagine how people will react to my music. For me, it’s a really fluid process from one record to the next, but it’s really up to the listener.
I can’t tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them.
I certainly don’t understand Fox’s decision-making process.
I come from people who dreamed of a free democratic system. I believe so strongly in the process and equal access.
I could have had a session of defecography, which is a diagnostic test in which X-rays are taken to assess anatomical problems occurring during the process of defecation. I gave it the briefest of thoughts before recognizing that this is beyond the pale – even for me.
I couldn’t make sense of things. But then I began the process of civilising myself and trying to become a decent human being. I’m still working on it.
I definitely feel like I’m the scapegoat for a lot of The Process issues.
I definitely think it’s important to share my process when it comes to the bottom surgery, because that information really isn’t out there.
I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
I did a guest thing on ‘My Name Is Earl,’ and there is something about being involved in a TV show that’s in the midst of its popularity that frees up the creative process.
I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting – this thought reform process – in the military.
I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.
I didn’t have any expectations with ‘Traveller’ – I don’t think anybody did. That’s how I prefer the process to be.
I didn’t realize that, in doing a documentary, there is this process of discovery. It’s not like a film or a play with a set script. It sort of reveals itself.
I discovered I was passionate about the creative process, the product development, creating a concept around a fragrance or lipstick.
I do believe that banks are special – they are very leveraged institutions by nature; therefore, it’s even more critical to ensure that the governance and the process of running a banking company are well-organised, managed and regulated.
I do feel like my improv training has helped me throughout my entire audition process only because the idea of ‘yes and-ing’ applies to everything.
I do find walking is fundamental to my creative 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.
I do want to say the process of writing a novel is riddled with self-doubt and self-loathing.
I do worry about the fact that science is becoming a slower process as society is becoming less patient.
I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
I don’t disagree with Senator McCain when he talks about the earmark process.
I don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
I don’t do rehearsal. Some directors prefer to do rehearsal – readings before the actual shooting – but I don’t like this process because I think there are certain things that are so spontaneous, and they cannot happen twice.
I don’t have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.
I don’t know what the creative process is. I don’t know how to trick it into starting or how to egg it on.
I don’t like outside group ads. I don’t like attack ads. I particularly don’t like them now that I’m in the process and they are being used against me.
I don’t like Type-A actors, and I don’t like Type-A golfers. I like people who relax into what they do and who enjoy it for the process.
I don’t listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.
I don’t make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.
I don’t need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one reason and one reason only: I love comics. I love the form, the structure, the storytelling process, I love everything about it.
I don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
I don’t really analyze my process. I do know that if it’s not right, I won’t move on. I’m tenacious to a fault about that.
I don’t really go through a process, it goes through me.
I don’t think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.
I don’t think it’s that strange that a show has sort of a bumpy beginning. It’s just part and parcel of the process.
I don’t think screenwriting is therapeutic. It’s actually really, really hard for me. It’s not an enjoyable process.
I don’t think the process was successful and should be inspected closer. I am not afraid to say I am not familiar with the entire process, so before commenting further I would have to study the process more in depth.
I don’t think you can figure this stuff out. If you could figure all this stuff out, then all the great filmmakers would come out of Yale and Harvard. It’s not an intellectual process.
I don’t think you ever stop giving. I really don’t. I think it’s an on-going process. And it’s not just about being able to write a check. It’s being able to touch somebody’s life.
I don’t think you should have everybody’s information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you’ve committed a crime.
I don’t use recurring characters. I do get very interested in my characters while I’m working with them, and I find the process of fitting them into a story, and allowing them to create the story around themselves, fascinating. But no, I don’t imagine they have a life outside of what I make for them.
I don’t usually like talking about acting or what my process is, and all those kinds of things, because I don’t necessarily think it’s helpful to talk about how I do my job.
I don’t want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
I enjoy construction and the process of building things, so maybe I’d be a developer of some kind – residential and commercial. Because I produce a lot of television now, I enjoy building things from the ground up, whether it’s a physical structure or a show, and seeing them and realizing them.
I enjoy the details. I enjoy coming up with ideas for improving the script, changing scenes and deciding what locations and wardrobe should be – the process of making a film.
I enjoy the process of adding elaboration into games and like to communicate with users through the details I create.
I enjoy the process of TV; I like the pace of it; I like the continual work.
I enjoy the process of writing.
I enjoy writing. I enjoy that kind of process.
I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they’re going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.
I faced many ups and downs, like any other actor: not getting through auditions or even worse – getting shortlisted and not being selected. Most actors go through the process.
I feel like I don’t have much of a preference. With TV, it’s just a longer process, so you need to be more sure that you really want to be involved in it for a longer time than you would be with film.
I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.
I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines.
I felt that the studio recording process makes you stand still too long.
I find that arduous physical labor can jump-start my thought process.
I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn’t like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
I found that pottering is very conducive to my creative process, so now, I find myself being incredibly creative because I’ve got such much to procrastinate with.
I get to do what I love for money. It’s weird to process that.
I get very deep into the writing and recording process.
I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they’re in the screen.
I go through insanity before a show. It’s not really a process but it’s like absolute mortal fear.
I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much.
I got snubbed about eight times for the Mid-Summer Classic, and I know what type of career I had, and I know that I’m a true All-Star. The selection process is not very accurate.
I got trained in kick-boxing and mixed martial arts. I enjoyed the whole process so much, and I’d love to do more action films.
I had been in talks with Marvel prior to ‘Iron Fist,’ and I had researched all the prominent female roles that I was interested in. Colleen Wing came up really early in the process, and I had a strange feeling.
I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
Deep Process Sayings
I hardly teach. It’s more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
I hated working red carpets, I hated the whole celebrity interview process. I just realized I’d rather be the person somebody wanted to ask questions to than the person asking the questions.
I have a dark room, and I still process film, but digital photography can be a totally lying kind of experience; you can move anything you want… the whole thing can’t be trusted, really.
I have a very clear vision as to what I want at the end of my prep, and then I throw it out and let the creative process take over.
I have always believed that process is more important than results.
I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.
I have gained a lot of confidence in my process of making films. It does’t mean I’ll make a successful film or even a good film, but I know how to make my film.
I have had quite a lot of prizes, but I don’t think it makes any difference to the ease or difficulty to the writing process.
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.
I have high hopes that GIS will become increasingly relevant for landscape architects as we make the tools easier to use for the design process of just inventory and mapping.
I have long been fond of comparing Workday strategy to the process of sending a rocket to the moon.
I have no doubts, by the way, that Ariel Sharon really wants to move the peace process forward.
I have not seen much dignity in the process by which we die. The quest to achieve true dignity fails when our bodies fail.
I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
I have repeatedly called for respecting institutions and the democratic process. Once the process is completed, we should always respect the outcome.
I have several writer friends, but I don’t involve them in my work process. I’m more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.
I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I’ve been in the process of selling others.
I have such a simple process – it takes me, like, ten minutes to get ready.
I have this desire to just while away weeks, months and years. It took me two years to make this record but that was with me trying to condense my process and not disappear down the rabbit hole with all the cool things I’ve collected. I could take 10 years and not explore everything I want to with these instruments.
I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.
I have two daughters, and we live here in Manhattan, and having gone through the Manhattan kindergarten application process, nothing will ever rival the stress of that.
I haven’t read for pleasure in 35 years. I mean, I get a lot of pleasure from what I read… For me, it’s gotten so that it doesn’t seem as though I’ve read a book unless I’ve written about it. It really seems the completion of the reading process.
I hope to make the process of producing my take of the Biennial a transparent and interesting one for artists.
I intentionally approached each story in ‘Killing and Dying’ in a different way, and that includes the writing process.
I interviewed dozens and dozens of African women who had endured more hardship and trauma than most Westerners even read about, and they ploughed on. I often openly cried during interviews, unable to process this violence and hatred towards women I was witnessing.
I jump into the process, and the record begins to gel at some point. Then I begin to get a picture of where I’m going. But it’s not always something I know on the front-end.
I just don’t like the idea of having an operation to hold up the ageing process.
I just I don’t feel challenged by acting anymore. I don’t enjoy the process anymore.
I just love the process of filmmaking.
I just love the process of working with other actors.
I just start writing, and in the process, one hopefully comes up with ideas and solutions and explores all the little nooks and crannies.
I know a lot of companies that have a very well defined post-acquisition process. However, many of them don’t take into consideration the dynamics and personalities of the acquiree. Instead, they assume that everyone will happily be assimilated.
I know how demanding the process of creation is.
I know more now than I did in the past about the process of democratization. I know more about the pitfalls.
I know that two and two make four – and should be glad to prove it too if I could – though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
I know there are different kinds of actors, but I tend to have less effective relationships with actors who have a very private process – who really need to do lots of internal work, so that I become merely a witness until they’re ready to share.
I know what I love about acting – and it’s the creative process.
I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.
I learned the process of this kind of acting, how things run, how chaotic it can be, and what kind of different muscles you have to flex.
I left Disney in 2000 because I thought that the process of watching TV was really going to change, and the process of creating it and the business model had to change, too.
I like acting, alright, and it can be fun sometimes, but the process of it, of not being – not being the author of your own life, I can’t take that anymore.
I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.
I like creation even if the process is always a bit difficult.
I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.
I like playing tennis. I’ve always enjoyed the process of being a tennis player; I’m just not sure that I enjoyed the travel at the end, and my body didn’t recover from the day-to-day grind.
I like shocking, but I don’t like to shock as an automatic process. Sometimes it happens, but it’s not my main drive.
I like talking about comic book process, and one of the things is that I have plans going ahead for years, and the plans constantly get thrown away and shifted. There’s a difference between planning and what actually happens in life, and comics have a life of their own.
I like the cerebral process.
I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it’s done in handwriting.
I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films – the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.
I like to be in locations that I kind of feel are very creative, that stimulate me in a creative process.
I like to cook Indian food when I can. I find the process of creating a home-cooked meal to be unwinding.
I like to not be too involved in the beginning and during the process so as to keep this fresh look and be able to give constructive recommendation on the final production.
I like to rehearse. We did a lot of rehearsals for ‘Moneyball,’ but it is really individual to the actor. It’s not like, ‘Here is my process, everybody. Fit in.’
I listen to music because that’s such a huge part of my process; not to sound super pretentious, but that’s a big part of what helps me get in character.
I love actors. I love working with actors. I really enjoy the process. I love having those in-depth discussions about the interior of their character, and actors really love to discuss that, too. I could talk about that for days with them. They love that, and I love that.
I love being part of the movie-making process. There is magic. There is an element of mystery and unpredictability.
I love disagreements. I love the democratic process. If I’m in a room where everybody agrees, I start to nod off.
I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.
I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.
I love the creative process – brainstorming and coming up with campaigns.
I love the creative process, of getting to create your own show or your own movie, whatever it is you want to do, and have the resources to try and make that happen.
I love the creative process. That’s always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.
I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.
I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.
I love the process of filmmaking. I understood that you have to be a writer in order to be a director.
I love the process of making a movie so much as an actor that I can only imagine I would love the process of being the director.
I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors.
I love the process. It’s like I’ve fallen in love with the process of trying to become great.
I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn’t pay the bills.
I love the structural part of the writing process.
I love the whole process of making, serving, and eating hearty soups like lentil, potato leek and carrot, to name a few.
I love to go on tour and perform. I love all the parts of the process.
I love to take, process and share photos – it fills me up.
I love touring, more than anything. Doing the stage show is a more enjoyable process than TV. There are no safeguards but the payoff is the wow factor.
I love working the legislative process.
I loved the process of writing.
I loved the writing process. I loved it.
I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.
I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you’d get 100 different ways in which they write. There’s no right way or wrong way to do it; it’s whatever your process is.
I meet athletes from different backgrounds and see they share the same mentality and process as other athletes in other sports.
I must admit I found it astonishing to watch the candidates below Donald Trump beat up each other and never lay a glove on the front-runner. I mean, when I was running, everybody went after the front-runner and pointed out my weaknesses and foibles, and that’s part of the normal primary process.
I never have particular actors planned when I’m in the process of writing.
I never stop thinking about names of products. It’s a process that happens 24 hours a day.
I never stopped DJing through the entire ‘Game of Thrones’ process. I never saw the need to stop because I do love it so much.
I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
I never wore a single fedora filming ‘L.A. Noire.’ It took about an hour and a half to do the hair – it was a very precise process.
I outline and outline and outline, and then I’m very specific about the stuff I write. That’s my process.
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
I produce more movies than I write, but when I write, it is such an immersive, intense process that it probably takes as much or more time than producing multiple movies.
I pushed the process forward by saying, ‘We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.’
I realised that I enjoyed direction while making ‘DCH.’ The process of putting a film together and working with the cast and crew felt good.
I realize the voters elected President Obama in 2012, but they also, in 2014, elected enough Republican senators to gain a majority in the Senate, so we control the confirmation process. And these are two supposedly coequal branches of government involved in this filling of a Supreme Court vacancy.
I really enjoyed the process of ‘Women in Clothes,’ but there’s no way I would have done that again. It felt more like being an editor than a writer, and I longed to write again.
I really love being a part of the creative process. I love having an opinion that gets heard, and then it’s all up for discussion.
Famous Process Sayings
I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It’s an incredibly nourishing process; it’s probably the closest I come to having a religion.
I really miss the rehearsal process of theater.
I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.
I really wanted ‘NH10’ to be made, and being associated with it eased the entire process.
I refuse to make films where the audience comes for consumption. I make films where you know you are also part of the process.
I said the rosary, and I said the Our Father, as they call it in the Catholic Church. One of the things I learned in the conversion process was to say the rosary, and I had a set of rosary beads. So I said ‘Hail Mary, full of grace.’
I see my writing as the process of looking at the usual, but from two steps to the side.
I see procrastination and research as part of my artistic process.
I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.
I see videomaking as an art – it’s not a process for me.
I seek to be authentic and engaging, using my own experiences, being as vulnerable as I ask my clients to be, to enhance the process.
I signed ‘Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon’ only for a year. But the producer requested me to stay on, as the show had just started to make money. I carried on, and in the process, the character became very popular. When I finally gave up, changing the actor for that character was difficult, so the show ended.
I spent about a year and a half doing technical post work on ‘The Fountain’. Although I do like the process, I think my favorite part of filmmaking is the actors.
I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there, I move to note cards. But the most important part of my process is my inspiration board.
I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing’s a kind of lonely thing to do, and I liked the idea of demystifying the process because I loved it as a kid and teenager and as somebody who wanted desperately to write.
I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.
I started taking piano lessons from the age of six years old. It’s such an essential part of what I do in the production process. I wouldn’t be Kygo today without those piano lessons.
I still need to go through the process of proving myself.
I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.
I suddenly realised, hey, I’m not a lazy idiot, I’m an idler! It’s something to aspire to, it’s part of the creative process! That’s fantastic!
I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don’t like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge.
I tend to process emotional stuff very, very slowly.
I tend to process stuff by making jokes about it. It’s something that makes me annoying to be around in times of real crisis.
I think a lot of things will be self-correcting, even in America. After all, human societies are essentially self-organizing emergent systems. The catch is, how much disorder will we have to endure while this re-self-organizing process occurs.
I think acting really helps as a director. It’s just no question, because you totally understand the acting process.
I think an actor’s process should be very personal and private, and sometimes I have thought, ‘Oh, please, put it away now.’
I think anyone who knows the audio process knows what mixing and mastering is.
I think being dead isn’t any problem. It’s the process of dying which is quite off-putting.
I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.
I think every actor wants a certain amount of control. Maybe not control, as such, but just to be part of the process. But it’s not necessary, I guess.
I think growing up is difficult and it’s a process that I’m always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
I think I am aging, but I’m enjoying the process.
I think I have the special ability to process information quickly and dissect defenses.
I think India’s policy that the openness of trade should be carried through a multilateral process is the right one.
I think it is a wonderful process of transformation from an actress to a producer.
I think it remains a film-by-film process, and since I am relatively selective and slow, it can take a while.
I think it’s a long-time process when you are trying to get fitter and fitter.
I think it’s fair to say that there’s a lot of conversations between House members and Senate members on a regular basis, and I think that’s what our constituents would expect, is to have bicameral conversations throughout the process.
I think it’s very important that the United States keeps out of the local electoral process in Mexico.
I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.
I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He’s consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations.
I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.
I think that an industrial process is not like a rubber stamp. Everything has to be put together and, as such, should have its own expression.
I think that every project offers an opportunity to reinvent process as well as content.
I think that is a very important milestone in our economic history that the monetary policy is now determined through a committee process where there are both independent committee members and representation from the RBI.
I think that President Obama has done the best he possibly could during the first term considering that his opposition was willing to do whatever necessary to destroy him, even if it meant damaging the country in the process.
I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.
I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don’t understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.
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.
I think the problem we have as apes is we’re asking far bigger questions than we could possibly process.
I think therapy interferes with the creative process. It takes off the edge.
I think there’s a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It’s not an intellectual process, it’s an instinctive process.
I think we should all be accountable to our parties, but I also think that accountability should be a process of engagement: that MPs do engage with their constituency parties, do engage with their constituents, and MPs do change their minds on things because of local opinion.
I think what we should have done is integrate the web site with the magazine much earlier in the process.
I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
I tried to tell them about the dating process because I’m single now and how horrible it is and how many foolish experiences I had had dating. So I was really selling him hard, but the whole time he really wanted me!
I truly love the rehearsal process, those eight hours a day! I really love actors.
I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don’t want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.
I try to learn with experience. This is my process of learning, so I try my 100 per cent.
I try to listen to a lot of music when I’m in the mixing process of a record, when I’m in post-production and trying to get everything to sound a certain way.
I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.
I used to make short films even as a kid. I used to have a camera and play around with it. So, I was always interested in the process and telling stories. I’ve always wanted to direct.
I used to spend my time more on process than strategy. Now, I prioritize my time around strategy, people, and process.
I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I’m doing it rattles along, then the rewrite whips it into shape rather quickly.
I want society to feel they are part of a process of change.
I want to be around people that are just as enthusiastic about the process and storytelling as I am.
I want to enable the Windrush generation to acquire the status that they deserve – British citizenship – quickly, at no cost, and with proactive assistance through the process.
I want to keep on progressing. I definitely think acting is a long process to be one of the greats like Morgan Freeman or Jack Nicholson.
I want to lead the pack in the process of making Indian singers bigger than actors internationally.
I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that ‘nothing succeeds like success.’
I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general.
I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.
I was completely fascinated by the studio process and layering sounds and creating soundscapes out of layering massive squalls of sound.
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 was excited by the process of Pandora, which I still think is a decent product. Not as great in actuality as it sounds. After the first hour, its weaknesses start to show up.
I was fascinated with the writing process and seeing the evolution of a sketch and how it would change up to the minute before it went on the air.
I was fortunate enough to do a docu-series throughout the draft process, but I did that to show the behind-the-scenes stuff.
I was happier when pursuing success than I was when savoring its fruits; the attraction, perhaps the addiction, was in the process, as much as in its end.
I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie.
I was not prepared for the actual process itself; having to go to the shop and having some molds done.
I was spooked when I first got the role, as I was afraid I wouldn’t have the companionship I need on a shoot, because I’m so into the process itself, not so much the end product.
I was three years old, so I actually don’t remember much of the refugee process.
I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.
I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.
I went through the process of auditioning like every other struggling actress in this town.
I went to college to find myself. That’s where I really realized I wanted to be a recording artist and started on the process of figuring out how to do that.
I wish that I had known back then that a mastery of process would lead to a product. Then I probably wouldn’t have found it so frightening to write.
I work with my instincts. I don’t have a process that I learned in an acting class whereby I break a script down or whereby I do a certain kind of research.
I worked 18 years to become an overnight success. Now MagicPlace.com will short circuit that process for people.
I would buy Barbies and take them apart and then remake their looks. I used them for hairstyling. It was a whole process. I had a lot of dolls – like 150.
I would love to do more films. I really like the whole process of doing that. I like how close you become to everybody.
I would not reconsider the nuclear cuts. The appropriations committee did due process in looking at where there was the ability to cut some spending and that’s what we did and now it’s time to look forward to fiscal year ’12.
I would say that I don’t make music quickly; like, my process has been very slow, and my bar is very high, and I don’t really rush to make music just to get something out there.
I would say that many architects are very logical. They start their process from analysis and from rational processes to try and find the ‘right’ answer, like solving a mathematic equation.
I write a lot of lyrics and I’m involved in the producing process, because it’s like, if I’m singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to.
Process Quotes About Success
I write by hand and then transfer the text onto the computer. I like the process of actually having a pen in my hand. Things flow more easily for me that way.
I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.
I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons.
I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists – I had a full-time job, I shared an apartment, I had no time – and so I became a compulsive outliner of everything. Ever since then, my process has consisted of trying to forcibly rid myself of that compulsion.
Ideally, writers and narrative designers should be included much earlier in the process, where they can be of most benefit. However, although the industry is slowly getting used to fitting narrative professionals into games development, we’re still going through a bit of a ‘square-peg in a round hole’ phase.
If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.
If a man’s reputation can be destroyed in an afternoon by a secret kangaroo court, then we, too, can one day be propelled into a pit of everlasting shame by the same process.
If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power of context and the process of reproduction. Claes Oldenburg’s soft ice-cream cones and hamburgers changed sculpture from hard to soft, from stasis to transformation.
If an acquisition can speed a process or fill a gap, we’ll jump right to that. It’s about timing, need… it’s not necessarily an algorithm.
If death weren’t around to ‘finalize’ the Darwinian process, we’d all still be amoebas.
If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
If government wishes to see a depression ended as quickly as possible and the economy returned to normal prosperity, what course should it adopt? The first and clearest injunction is: Don’t interfere with the market’s adjustment process.
If I can understand criticism, I take it very seriously. But it’s a process; it doesn’t happen overnight.
If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.
If I hadn’t been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It’s just really what I’m interested in: the human psyche and how we process information.
If I have a talent, it lies in the creative process.
If I hire a coach, he’s the coach and will run what he knows and is comfortable with. Will it be part of the process? Absolutely. But I am not going to interfere that way as the president.
If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.
If I spend time at the front of the process worrying about connecting themes, then I won’t write the best songs.
If I’m trying to rebound after a bad hole, I just go back to tempo and process and rhythm, and I cling to my routine.
If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.
If sleep does not provide a remarkable set of benefits, then it’s the biggest mistake the evolutionary process has ever made.
If the aging process is controlled in a similar way in worms and humans, then we can use what we learn about worms to speed our study of higher organisms.
If the constitutional process is not brought to a successful conclusion before the European elections, then the whole process might run out of steam.
If the official community is interested in asking the private sector to take another look at Greece, then it will have to be only as part of a broader process of addressing the full range of sovereign debt issues in Europe.
If the president does something dastardly, the impeachment process is available.
If the presidential nominating process were an international sports competition, one would assume that top officials of both parties were taking envelopes of cash from town chairs in Durham and precinct captains in Waterloo.
If the right thing came along, I would absolutely direct something I did not write because I love the process so much, but we’ll see. I’m taking it day by day.
If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one’s crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature.
If we can recycle a valuable product that serves an important purpose – and create jobs in the process – then why wouldn’t we? Well, that’s exactly what fly ash offers.
If we can think about not the object, but the process of creating the object, in short, we have no constraints. We have processes in our hands that allow us to create structures at all scales that at one point we couldn’t even have dreamed of.
If we discover through a thorough and unbiased investigation that Russia has indeed attacked our electoral process directly with the intent to influencing the process, our response needs to be robust, rapid, and proportional. This will shape our relationship with Russia profoundly.
If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness.
If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we’d have to put into teacher salaries.
If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.
If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
If we’re going to have an unconventional budget, we probably need an unconventional process to get there.
If you accept that security is a process, and if you can eliminate the human interaction or intervention in that process by automating more, that is a good thing.
If you are not an accredited investor, you only have one option: to buy and hold bitcoin on your own. The process of acquiring bitcoin is risky and requires a lot of due diligence to navigate the landscape properly.
If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
If you go through the regular process of the House and Senate passing companion bills and then try and work out differences in the conference, maybe we can get something done.
If you invest the time earlier to create structure and process around communication, planning, and goal-setting, you can prevent missteps before they occur.
If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it’s stalemate. There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
If you look at the leading Indian IT companies, Cognizant is not active in business process outsourcing, and neither is Satyam.
If you make the effort to address the moves that cause a slice, you can straighten out all your shots. It won’t happen overnight, but if you’re systematic about it, the process will work.
If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
If you sequence a cancerous tumor, you should be able to tailor the therapy according to the root cause of the cancer. But it has taken so long to do the sequencing – which also requires time to prepare the samples and interpret the deluge of data that comes out – that the patients are already undergoing therapy by the process if over.
If you stay true to your ideas, film-making becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process.
If you take a regular animated film, that’s being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process.
If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.
If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.
If you write about a process you’re about to go through, market research, and you go through it, and it doesn’t echo what you’ve written about, you’ve failed.
If you’re really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking.
Immigration is tough. My daughter-in-law is going through the immigration process as we speak.
Implication is a cumulative process that generates union in the team and mutual respect. Either we all work, or let’s just burst the ball.
Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.
In 1974, we began franchising. We didn’t have any big thought process except that, ‘OK, franchising will help us get to our goal of 32 stores and help us run stores farther away from home.’
In 1995, the Clinton Administration reached an agreement with Cuban government that any refugee caught at sea would be sent back to Cuba while any refugee who reaches the United States shores would be allowed to begin the process to citizenship after one year.
In 2008 we came perilously close to killing money, exposing in the process how out of date money’s infrastructure has become.
In a large mass of muscle deprived of its circulation, the rate at which the recovery process can go on, after severe stimulation, depends on the rate at which oxygen can reach the fibres by diffusion.
In a mature democracy, what is legal is decided by parliament… Our process is legitimised by parliament and by the ballot box.
In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It’s a much more in-depth process.
In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
In a world with weak aggregate demand, countries are engaging in a futile competition for a greater share of it. In the process, they are creating financial-sector and cross-border risks that will become increasingly apparent as countries exit their unconventional policies.
In acting process, it’s very difficult to explain. It’s something very intimate, very private.
In an organization that is unwilling to change, find the opportunity to talk and interact with people – figure out why they don’t want to change. It could be habits. It could be people’s personal equities and reputations are defined by the role they’re in or the process they’ve mastered.
In animation, the directors are part of a huge team of animators who all have opinions, too. It’s a much more democratic process. Also, the animation executives oversee things more.
In any given day, our administration has about 2 million employees, and things happen. We put in process procedures to make sure if there has been any wrongdoing, there will be appropriate consequences, and we will move on.
In any rebuilding process, I feel like there’s probably going to be two or three coaches.
In Bollywood, they’ve got their systems in place. It’s a monster machine that’s churning out, like, 400 films a year, consistently. They’re able to efficiently process things.
In contemplation and reverie, one thought introduces another perpetually; and it is by similarity, or the hooking of one upon the other, that the process of thinking is carried on.
In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.
In documentaries, the process is that you film a lot of things, and out of what you’ve shot, something organically reveals itself, and there’s a discovery process.
In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge – with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.
In general, the apparel industry isn’t about continual process improvement or making the perfect piece of denim; it’s about chasing trends.
In live-action, writing, production, and editing happen in discrete stages. In animation, they overlap – happening simultaneously. This allows a real dialogue to occur between the writer, the director, the actors, and the editor, and it makes the writing process a lot more collaborative and a lot less lonely.
In my early 20s, connecting with fiction was a difficult process. There seemed to be little rhyme or reason to what was meaningful, what convinced, and what made sense.
In order to encourage the cattle farmers to raise a herd of all-natural cattle, which is a several-year process, they have to know that it’s not just Shake Shack that wants to buy it. They have to have other buyers who are willing to pay more for all natural.
In order to produce the satisfaction of comprehension, there first needs to be the process of comprehension. Furthermore, the overarching idea at hand needs to be something that is actually comprehensible.
In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated.
In order to ‘go out the door’ safely, we go through a pretty thorough process called pre-breathe. This is the process of flushing all the nitrogen out of our systems by breathing higher concentrations of oxygen.
In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially – but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted ‘Timecode.’ It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.
In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes – a virtuous cycle of change.
In painting, you don’t have to go through a process of opinion; it speaks directly, and either it works, or it doesn’t.
In point of fact, ‘Simpson-Bowles’ has become a symbol, or SimBowl, rather than an actual plan, political shorthand for the process of long-term deficit reduction.
In Portland, I am more involved in the details of trade discussions because I’ve been around that sport longer and can watch tape and can give some input to the drafting process. In football, not at all. It’s so specialized.
In Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Jekyll & Hyde,’ the hero decides on the terms of his transformation in a process that’s explained not through the supernatural but the natural or, at least, through biochemistry.
In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible… What I’m interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing.
In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.
In some Old Testament books, it’s very evident that an editor has been at work. That’s quite all right. It’s part of the process.
In some ways, ‘The Little Mermaid’ was old-fashioned. Rendered in the hand-drawn style, it was the last Disney animated feature to use cels and Xeroxing. Pixar and its CGI imitators soon made that rigorous process obsolete.
In sports, everything is a process.
In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry ‘Native passes’ issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.
In the 1970s, I did a Ph.D. with Fred Sanger in Cambridge who was in the process of inventing ways to map what’s inside DNA. He later won the Nobel Prize.
Process Quotes For Hard Times
In the Arab and Israeli worlds’ eyes, Jared Kushner is a perfectly plausible American arbiter of – if not peace – then at least more process, procedure, and posturing.
In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn’t about anyone else.
In the Buddhist learning process, we say three stages. The first is hearing, the second is contemplation, and the third is meditation.
In the design process, there’s a need to be culturally comprehensive.
In the early days of the republic, the secretary of state was the heir apparent to the president. Presidents could easily hand-pick their party’s next candidate. The party caucuses formally selected the candidates, but presidents guided the process.
In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.
In the long run, Europe will certainly move toward unification. But it will be a process of push and pull, and there will be resistance.
In the normal process of evaluating the end of the season, I meet with key executives for thorough discussions and evaluations of all aspects of football operations.
In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I’d chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.
In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.
In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She’s got a construction zone going on in her belly.
In the process of ego, in the process of lobbying and in the process of just criticising for stake of criticism or in the process of politicising, don’t commit national crime. Don’t prevent exploration in the country. Let us move ahead more aggressively; it is in the best interest of the country.
In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.
In the process of making nanomaterials, we learned that with the electronic density of states, the phonon electronic properties and everything change at the nano-level. So the thermoelectric properties would also be changed.
In the process of the Arab Spring, we have unfortunately seen a development in Syria where the regime has been oppressing its people.
In the process of them developing this instrument, I’ve been playing the melodica in the style I would like the harmoniboard to be played, which is a mix between a harmonica and keyboard. I play with trumpet style techniques. I really like the mobility of being able to step off the piano and bring the music to the audience.
In the Seventies, album artwork became really beautiful items. The whole process of doing an album sleeve, it became a very artistic thing.
In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.
In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.
In their zeal to show compassion, liberal community activists are quick to offer government handouts and, in the process, convey the message that people are incapable of making it on their own.
In true open source development, there’s lots of visibility all the way through the development process.
In TV we’ve used something that I love… it’s called process. I love process.
In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don’t enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things.
In writing, one searches, and that is what keeps one writing, that one sees and experiences things from another angle entirely; one experiences oneself during the process of writing.
In ‘Haraamkhor,’ I have explored a few things which I wouldn’t have been able to do in bigger films. The process of shooting this film was so organic that it enhanced me as an actor and an artiste.
Increasingly, we are embedding artificial intelligence into the core of our clients’ businesses across every function and process.
Indictments of any kind are serious. That being said, let’s not forget that an indictment is not a conviction. We still have due process in this country.
Intel has a very complete process that I go through any time I want to sell that ensures I have no insider information.
Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.
Interleaf is based on the formatting process.
Intervening militarily would exacerbate – not resolve – the matter and, in the process, will Americanize the Syrian civil war.
Ironically, one of the clearer threats to consumer privacy is the government’s largely unchecked ability to collect your sensitive information without due process.
Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.
It can be a living hell to go through endless campus investigations. I’ve seen this go down, and there really is no winning once the accusation is made, even if the process provides formal vindication.
It doesn’t cost anything to replicate code. So the companies that make code, that’s why they’ve done so well. We take it for granted now, but why is it that code is free? It’s because somebody built this self-replicating process.
It doesn’t matter whose idea it is or where it came from or when it arrived in the process. The best idea is the best idea no matter what.
It is a growing process. You can’t just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
It is a process of diverting one’s scattered forces into one powerful channel.
It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music.
It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.
It is a very cynical, skeptical, foolish person that suggests Israel does not need a peace process to have a growing economy.
It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.
It is becoming clear that many diseases – especially cancer – are highly complex and may respond better to a multi-drug approach which targets many different aspects of a disease process.
It is clear that IDEA ’97 not only undermines the educational process, it also undermines the authority of educators.
It is definitely easier to deal with injuries on the mental side after you’ve had a few of them, since you are aware of the recovery process.
It is important that we understand the importance of the Arctic, stop the process of destruction, and protect it.
It is impossible to devise a scientific experiment to describe the creation process, or even to ascertain whether such a process can take place. The Creator does not create at the whim of a scientist.
It is impossible to effectively monitor the huge volume of videos that are out there. It is often difficult to find out who owns the copyright on individual videos. Differing copyright laws in different countries also make the whole process harder.
It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult process of choice which ends, often, in an eclectic idiosyncrasy.
It is in the interest of the government and also the interest of the nation that things are done properly and that there is due process and that we are not unfair.
It is interesting: in France, the horror films are not so popular. People go to see them, but not for the same reason. It is more artistic and process.
It is not a fun process to run full-tilt toward guys who are running toward you full-tilt.
It is not an exaggeration to say that under Obama, the naturalization process – becoming a citizen – no longer requires becoming an American. The real tragedy and the real crime of the Obama plan for accelerated naturalization of millions flows from the redefinition of citizenship as a triumph of multiculturalism.
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.
It is opposition to economic orthodoxy that leads us into austerity and cuts. But it is also a thirst for something more communal, more participative. That, to me, is what is interesting in this process.
It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.
It is quite plausible that the process of increased fragmentation of production across borders is subject to ‘diminishing returns’ and has its natural limits.
It is quite surreal having a film made about your life. The whole process of turning real life into drama is interesting in itself, but even more so when it is your own life being put into the narrative forge.
It is really want, rather than need, that drives the process of technological evolution.
It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved.
It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.
It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.
It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence.
It just gets easier in that you become more you in the process.
It seems Russians hacked into emails from both the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee and then chose to release only the DNC emails. These attacks destabilize and undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral process, and they must be addressed in a serious and proportional way – just as we would for a non-cyberattack.
It seems to me we are now, since 1789, going through the same sort of process of regeneration the Roman world went through between 300 and 500. It is only to be hoped all civilization will not again be destroyed by the anarchists.
It takes time to understand the difference between civilian POWs and military POWs. There’s an educational process.
It took me three albums to get the confidence and to find out what I could do that made me different from other people. And the first record, really, was a process of trying.
It turns out synthesizing DNA is very difficult. There are tens of thousands of machines around the world that make small pieces of DNA – 30 to 50 letters in length – and it’s a degenerate process, so the longer you make the piece, the more errors there are.
It typically takes bipartisan work to build enough consensus to get things through our legislative process.
It was a really long process, dropping out of college. I was there for a semester, then I would take a semester off and go on tour, then I would go back for a semester.
It was an honour for me to have been able to work with Mr. Mandela in the process that led to the adoption of the interim constitution and our first democratic elections in April 1994.
It was an interesting process trying to get Bob to talk about the film because he’s such a shy person. He generally likes to talk when he really knows he has something to say.
It was clear, for example, in 1988 that the political process had already become perilously remote from the electorate it was meant to represent.
It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.
It was set to be my first WrestleMania, which is obviously a lifetime goal. To have that taken away from me right on the approach – we were something like three weeks out – was devastating. It certainly changed me as a person, that process.
It was the ‘Gaucho’ album that finished us off. We had pursued an idea beyond the point where it was practical. That album took about two years, and we were working on it all of that time – all these endless tracking sessions involving different musicians. It took forever, and it was a very painful process.
It was very much exaggerated, this information campaign, this sustained campaign against us. But if I may… Over the process of years, it will thaw out. I mean, just gradually through contact, through dialogue, through investment.
It’s a debilitating process, working with the studios. With the length of time it takes for drafts and development deals, your enthusiasm is gone before you’re ready to make the film.
It’s a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.
It’s a fast learning process if you want to be successful at the highest level.
It’s a hard process to navigate… to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.
It’s a holistic process for me during a show. I’m always focusing on the technical aspects of my voice. I try to make my voice do what I want. One big thing I do to improve on each show is to listen back to performances on CD while on tour.
It’s a learning process, and now I know that even when you don’t have a title, or you’re not in a main event caliber program, you have to remain ‘main event level’ and always not allow anything to hinder that.
It’s a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship.
It’s a pretty brutal process, having a baby.
It’s a pretty intuitive process, picking the projects that I want to get involved with.
It’s a shame and a disgrace that so few people take part in the political process.
It’s a slow process rewriting your own life in your head. I think that’s a writerly thing.
It’s a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical.
It’s a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you’ve written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.
It’s about the journey and the process. I do things because I love doing them, or trying them.
It’s always a long process of trying to suppress the self-doubt on set when you’re acting.
It’s entertaining to watch somebody break my music down or explain what he thinks I was thinking during the process of making these records. Because… he has no idea.
It’s fun to play a part in the process of helping to inform readers about their political leaders.
Funny Process Quotes
It’s funny, actually… a few clubs called when I was in preseason with Hull in 2017, but I wasn’t really that interested. My missus was pregnant, and we were in the process of getting everything ready for our big arrival – that was our top priority, like any expectant parents.
It’s hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you’re ultimately the author, so you do have control.
It’s hardly news that the Obama administration is intensely and, in many respects, unprecedentedly hostile toward the news-gathering process.
It’s inevitable now, because everyone is a superstar, even if they’re just an average player, and maybe that was part of the process set in motion when I signed that contract in 1994.
It’s just a very different process from maybe working one or two days a week doing one or two scenes a day versus sustaining a performance over two hours or so eight times a week.
It’s kind of a weird process being pitched by the company you’re already with.
It’s kind of an intuitive process. I wish that it were more systematic, but it just isn’t.
It’s much too easy to come here illegally and very, very difficult to become an immigrant through lawful process. I think we need to reverse those.
It’s no secret that my favorite part of the process is making records; if I’m not making them with Flatts, then I’m out producing them on other folks.
It’s no secret that my process is a little bit loose and can be a little bit infuriating to a studio if they don’t know what they’re signing up for.
It’s not clear whether the brain actually is designed to have nightmares or whether this is actually the process going awry.
It’s not like every actor needs to train, but an actor will either develop their process through training or through working.
It’s really fun to get into that process of creating an album and telling a story. I really love it.
It’s really hard to go into a creative process and not think, ‘I might or might not get nominated for a Tony.’
It’s something that one expects after 12 years – to be eaten up by the process – but we’re still very much on the outside.
It’s sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts.
It’s such a process to get a show off the ground initially. And then, to already have a second season announced is a dream come true for any actor.
It’s the preparation that’s my favourite part of the process.
It’s the results that are surprising, even results where we’ve totally screwed up, and then learned something in the process, are the ones that stand out. Having our preconceptions overturned is actually thrilling for us.
It’s very painful to lose, and it’s a very difficult process to go through, especially at a place like UCLA where the standards are very high.
It’s – as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that’s excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers.
I’d love to be involved in the process of adapting a book to a script, but that’s simply not my job.
I’d love to be part of the process of building cars.
I’d say ‘Codename Baboushka’ has been a slightly more difficult process for me, but I think that’s precisely because it’s quite different to my usual fare. And even then, being difficult doesn’t make me prefer it, or not, to anything else. I like a challenge.
I’m a big fan of Barack Obama. I think he carries a heavier burden and is held to a greater and higher standard than other candidates : I think there’s a large, large portion of this country that feels disenfranchised and marginalized by the political process.
I’m a great believer that scientists should spend as much time as possible explaining, and you do explain in the process of teaching.
I’m a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity – these values mean a lot to me.
I’m a passionate believer in revision, and a lot of my writing gets done during revision process. It isn’t just tweaking: I tend to break it apart and remake it every time I do a new draft.
I’m a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.
I’m a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, so it’s a process I’ve been doing since I was younger.
I’m absolutely delighted because I’m part of the process that has made Asians very much part of the mainstream fabric of Britain, whereas, when I first started, we were completely on the margin.
I’m always amused when people point out that Benjamin’s naivety about the publishing process is just so unbelievable in Starborn #1 since, of course, no aspiring writer in reality could ever be so naive.
I’m always interested with other actors in what their process is, and are they still interested in acting, as opposed to being a star.
I’m concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children.
I’m constantly being surprised and finding unplanned things – because the writing is a process of experiencing things on the ground with the characters.
I’m continuing the educational process of getting people to accept dance as music.
I’m deeply and passionately involved in the design process. I’m a brash American, and if my name is going to be on something, I’m going to have my say.
I’m enjoying the aging process and the gray hair and the wrinkles.
I’m fascinated by human agency – by the process of decision, both in the individual and the mass.
I’m getting excited before every single game. The trophy at the end is less important than the process itself.
I’m here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn’t make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.
I’m in a constant process of thinking about things.
I’m in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own.
I’m in the process of trying to organize my DVDs into some kind of order and it’s taking me weeks. I have everything from obscure ‘Antonioni’ to ‘Terminator Salvation.’
I’m interested in animation. I actually feel like I’ve learned so much about the process how to make an animated movie.
I’m interested in making something that moves quickly, that hopefully is compelling minute-by-minute but really packed densely with exploration. I’m very interested in how re-visitable we can make films. If we can get them closer to a music album, then it’s not such an arduous process to revisit, and exploration can be a bit more cryptic.
I’m known for being very enthusiastic about using technology. A lot of the attraction is the way that it streamlines the process and takes a lot of the drudgery out of it.
I’m never offered any sort of roles. I need to audition in a typically lengthy process to receive roles.
I’m not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting process, a patient process.
I’m not a macho guy. I’m very soft-spoken on the set. But I’m not really intimidated by the process of making movies.
I’m not a politician or a scholar or political historian. I’m just a photographer who’s trying to capture a spirit. It’s not an intellectual process; it’s an intuitive process.
I’m not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
I’m not getting frustrated… we all knew from the start that this would be a long process.
I’m not so bothered by the audition process anymore; in fact, I use it. It’s a time for the actor to actually get to the know the director and the producers a little bit, too.
I’m not sure if I could bear to go on an aeroplane again. It’s not my concern for the welfare of the planet. It’s not even the long check-in times and queuing. No, it’s the humiliation of the security process that has finally done it for me.
I’m really interested in how non-American countries process race.
I’m saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as part of the inspiring process whereby God, in his sovereignty, gave every word.
I’m still amazed by the process of recording.
I’m sure every author has their own process.
I’m sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams.
I’m sure I’ll go back again and record in the digital process.
I’m the kind of person that if I try to throw it hard, it doesn’t come out as good. So my whole thought process is to stay smooth, stay on top of the ball, and just get my hand out in front.
I’m the one who initiated the democratic process.
I’m trying figuring out how to be the best person I can be. But it’s been a process of trial and error.
I’m unapologetic for the fact my Christian faith defines my decision-making process. I will bring those Christian principles and that mindset to Frankfort.
I’m very heavily involved in the editorial post-production process, and the camera – it’s just such a big part of my storytelling language. I like creating the tension; I like creating the emotion through the movement of my camera, or the lack of movement through my camera, depending on what fits the scene best.
I’m very interested in the editing process – in all aspects of film-making, really.
I’m without a doubt a producer first. The lyrics happen towards the tail-end of the process, mainly because they’re more stream-of-consciousness. It’s very rare that I’m going to tell a really concrete story.
I’ve always been an extremist. Some of us have very addictive personalities, and for some of us, that mechanism gets tripped up. Mine certainly did. I’m not cured. You never are. The recovery is a day-to-day process.
I’ve always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like ‘Waking Life,’ which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
I’ve always felt that technology companies have disrespected the content creation process, and the content creation people disrespect technology.
I’ve always found that I have to audition, but that’s a process that I kind of enjoy. I enjoy the challenge, and ‘We’re The Millers’ was the same. It was a long audition process that I had to go through, but I enjoyed the challenge of that.
I’ve always written about animals. I’m still trying to process why that is.
I’ve become wary of interviews in which you’re forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you’ve done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive.
I’ve been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that process just made me realize that I have to live by what I teach my students, because I teach screenwriting at Spellman.
I’ve been involved in ties with elements in the Arab world for years now. They wish to establish relations with Israel, but they cannot do so while there is no peace process.
I’ve been on jobs where there’s that one actor who is just a miserable, miserable no-good, dirty bastard, and it just turns the whole process sour.
I’ve been trying to learn Spanish, but it has been hard for me. It’s a slow process, but I’m trying.
I’ve done a lot of television, and there’s no rehearsal process – you have to come to the set with your guns blazing and with a point of view.
I’ve dubbed for my roles in Hindi, English, and Italian. Therefore, I’m used to the process. But, dubbing is hard, especially when you are dubbing for a prominent actor.
I’ve found the entire process of being pregnant to be such a miraculous, beautiful time.
I’ve got that hands-on experience with federal judges and how important it is to have judges like Neil Gorsuch, who will take a rule-of-law approach to the decision-making process. I think he’s eminently qualified.
I’ve got the recording process down, and I can knock it out very quickly.
I’ve gotten a lot more comfortable with the audition process, but there’s something that really turned me off initially when I was younger, to auditioning. The idea that I couldn’t get to the person that was actually making the film really frustrated me.
I’ve had so many experiences where everyone is very polite about each other’s working process, which can lead to work where everyone seems to be in different plays.
I’ve made a few albums in such an autonomous way; it often has been exhausting. It’s almost difficult to enjoy the process when you take on so much.
I’ve never been an individual guy. I never cared about the accolades. I’ve always been driven by the competition and the learning process.
I’ve never got a part in the same way twice. I’ve never prepared the same way. I’ve never experienced the filming the process the same way.
I’ve now returned to the business again because I finally realised that I really enjoy the creative process.
I’ve seen so many patients, particularly elderly patients, over the years who become debilitated and changed by the process by which I cure them or another doctor cures them. And has it really been worth it?
I’ve started the adoption process… I really want to be a mommy.
I’ve supported the process of getting to a good Trans-Pacific Partnership deal.
I’ve treated the waistcoat as if it were a corset, so that it becomes the first layer in the process of putting clothes on the body. There is constant motion between layering and revealing.
Jack Bender is a real actor’s director. Because he was an actor, and because he directed theater, he really enjoys that process.
Jamie’s gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.
Process Quotes About Growth
Jordan has a very important part in any Arab-Israeli peace process.
Journalism is a Darwinian process.
Judges are appointed often through the political process.
Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They’re looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter ‘found’ and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.
Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.
Just as TurboTax simplified much of the tax process, so has the colossally scary legal process been reduced to a kinder, gentler series of mouse clicks and ‘Continue’ buttons by LegalZoom, the online leader that has become so prominent in its market that it’s practically a generic.
Kids are coming online and connecting at a pace that’s faster than their physical maturation process. Would you ever imagine that you’d have to talk to your kid about phishing before you’re talking to him about the birds and the bees?
Kissing is not just kissing. It is a major escalation or de-escalation point in a powerful process of mate choice.
Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.
Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn’t one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter.
Language has historically stood as a barrier for some voters seeking to participate in the electoral process.
Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.
Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like ‘knight.’
Last summer when we were preparing for the movie, I actually kind of wanted to stay fairly uninformed about it. As we went through the process that we do in the movie, I wanted to be a little wide-eyed.
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
Left to their own devices, epidemic diseases tend to follow the same basic process: A virus or bacteria infects a host, who typically becomes sick and in many cases dies. Along the way, the host infects others.
Legal aid is crucial in ensuring those truly guilty of crimes are convicted after due process, and those innocent are able to clear their names, by ensuring that access to legal representation is available for everyone, regardless of ability to pay.
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.
Let’s face it: so much of what we consume is not driven by knowledge but by basic craving and impulse. The process of what we eat starts in our heads. And no one is more in our heads than a food industry that spends billions of dollars in marketing its message in every means possible.
Let’s not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let’s give importance to the real democracy that’s constructed on a day-to-day basis. That’s my hopeful perspective on it.
Let’s not mince words: Everest doesn’t attract a whole lot of well-balanced folks. The self-selection process tends to weed out the cautious and the sensible in favor of those who are single-minded and incredibly driven. Which is a big reason the mountain is so dangerous.
Let’s talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included… something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It’s a Gigantic project.
Leveraging cloud, mobility, you process things in a different way. For example, in insurance, you can access more claims through cloud, which makes a big difference in emerging markets, where the populations are large.
Life is a lively process of becoming.
Life is a process of evolution.
Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
Life is just an ongoing process.
Life is one long process of getting tired.
Life is simply the reification of the process of living.
Life is the division of human cells, a process which begins at conception.
Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.
Look, if the Situationists achieved what they wanted, they would be very unhappy and they would have to be Situationists all over again. It’s a never-ending process.
Looking out for your children is an ongoing process throughout your life.
Making a movie is a long, dull process. There’s a lot of waiting around.
Making a pilot is never a seamless process. If it is, it usually tanks.
Making a show is such a long process. You go through a TV production house that will commission scripts, and if they like what you’ve written, they take it to a network and sell it to them. It has always felt very far away from something that’s actually real.
Making an album is a long process, but it’s a fun process.
Making every record is a process full of tough times.
Making movies is really hard. It’s a very complex process, with many, many variables.
Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned.
Managing by values – not by profits – is a powerful process that will set your business on the path to becoming what I call a ‘Fortunate 500’ company.
Many brands have lost their way in the process of evolving from a small company to a much bigger corporation.
Many of the characters I play are talkative – ‘Oopiri’ for instance – so the dubbing process gets longer.
Many people are allergic to process and structure because it causes traumatic flashbacks of working at BigCo and suffering through bureaucracy for bureaucracy’s sake.
Marketing is fundamental to what makes us human. Marketing is not solely about selling chewing gum, cars, cellphones, and tourist packages. Everything in life involves the process of marketing something to someone.
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.
Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require.
Marriage, like love, is an aspiration. It’s a process.
Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part.
Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you’ll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life.
Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
Migration isn’t a one-directional process; it’s a colossal process that has been happening in all directions for thousands of years.
Military caregivers play an essential role in the recovery process of our veterans and are more than deserving of our support.
Millionaires are risk-takers, and they don’t become millionaires until they’re 40 or 50. It’s a slower process than a lot of people think.
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
Missionaries labor diligently to teach and baptize those who accept the gospel. In the process, their own testimonies become deeply rooted.
Mistakes happen, and then you try to overcome those. I like that process.
Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process.
More than a victim, I am a survivor of a dehumanization process.
Moscow and Washington have evolved a delicate process for ‘de-confliction’ in the tight Syrian airspace, where accidents or miscommunication could be disastrous.
Most bands have a sound that they’re already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find their muse in the studio to make a record that will not only satisfy them artistically, but will also do something in the marketplace.
Most intuitive ideas have to be clarified, so there is a trial and error process.
Most of our models have just walked in off the streets, although I also find them on countless trips to Europe – particularly Scandinavia. I operate by instinct. It’s a process I cannot explain, but the prettiest girl on the block is not always the best model.
Most of the infections linked to human cancers are common in human populations; they are ubiquitous. They were present during the whole human evolution process.
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.
Movements like Time’s Up and #MeToo are putting the problems out there and creating conversations about the issues, and that’s really how the healing process starts.
Movies are made in the scriptwriting process and prepping and preparations for the shooting process.
Movies tend to be dislocated and non-linear in their process.
Movies would be like a broad painted canvas… or a mystical process which cannot really be explained, like, ‘What is electricity?’ Along with the images that go on the screen, there’s a corridor of dialogue that can happen through motion pictures, whether you’re aware of it or not.
Multi- polarisation has become an inevitable trend in the process of shaping a global political pattern and has been widely welcomed by the international community as it reflects the common interests and aspiration of the overwhelming majority of countries.
Music helps me immeasurably in the writing process.
Music is a continuous process. You evolve with every song.
Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling.
Music is an important part of my writing process.
Music is one of the last elements in the creative process. It can and hopefully should tie a bow around an artistic concept, how a story moves forward, the pace of that storytelling.
Music was a means through which I could meet people and sort of begin the process of exploring who I was or who I could be.
Music – opera particularly – is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.
My advice to organizations I work with is always to be proactive rather than simply reactive when it comes to human rights issues. After all, the important process of improving company policies and practices must be carried out without having to be prompted by a labour strike, factory collapse or other crisis.
My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
My best writing has to do with an internal process that I’m working out unconsciously and put into my characters.
My books have been translated into various languages and sold in other countries, but I never have any contact with the foreign publishers and am so disconnected from that process that it seems almost imaginary. With ‘How to Save a Life’, I worked closely with Usborne editors and have been involved in the publicity.
My brain kind of works in steps. I have to go through things and then process them and then write about them. I have to understand them first.
My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details.
My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel’s neighbours.
My creative process involves that old saying: It’s 90% perspiration and only 10% inspiration.
My creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I’m washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious to do the work.
My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.
My ears won’t fool me. Even when I do a session on digital, we still warm it up somewhere in the process, in mastering or mixing, running the signal through some tubes somewhere.
My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.
Fresh Process Quotes
“Trust the process — the seed doesn’t argue with the soil, it just grows.” — Unknown
“The process is slow on purpose. Fast things break; slow things last.” — Unknown
“Fall in love with the process and the results will chase you.” — Unknown
“Every master was once a beginner who trusted the boring middle.” — Unknown
“The process doesn’t care about your timeline. It cares about your consistency.” — Unknown
“Respect the process: show up, do the work, repeat until it works.” — Unknown
“You’re not stuck — you’re in process. There’s a difference.” — Unknown
“The process is the teacher. The outcome is just the graduation photo.” — Unknown
“Good things take time because time is an ingredient, not an obstacle.” — Unknown
“Trust the process even when the progress is invisible.” — Unknown
“The middle of the process is where most people quit — which is exactly why you shouldn’t.” — Unknown
“A process followed daily beats motivation felt occasionally.” — Unknown
“Don’t rush the process. The cake isn’t better for being baked faster.” — Unknown
“The process works if you work the process.” — Unknown
“Every overnight success was a ten-year process with a good publicist.” — Unknown
“Trust the process, but audit it monthly — blind trust and wise trust are different.” — Unknown
“The process is messy in the middle. That’s not failure; that’s the middle.” — Unknown
“Small steps, repeated, are the whole secret. The process is embarrassingly simple.” — Unknown
“You can’t microwave growth. Some things only happen on low heat, over time.” — Unknown
“The process rewards the patient and humbles the hurried.” — Unknown
“Document the process — future you will want proof of how far you’ve come.” — Unknown
“Trust the process the way a farmer trusts the seasons — plant, tend, wait.” — Unknown
“The process doesn’t need your belief to work. It needs your participation.” — Unknown
“Skipping steps in the process just means repeating the lesson.” — Unknown
“Enjoy the process and you’ll never feel like you’re waiting.” — Unknown
“The process is where character is manufactured, one repetition at a time.” — Unknown
“Trust the slow work. Roots grow in the dark before anything shows.” — Unknown
“A good process makes hard things feel easy and easy things feel automatic.” — Unknown
“The process is personal — stop comparing your chapter three to their chapter thirty.” — Unknown
“When the process feels pointless, you’re usually one step from the payoff.” — Unknown
“Build the process, then let the process build you.” — Unknown
“The process doesn’t promise speed. It promises arrival.” — Unknown
“Trust the process, adjust the plan — the destination is fixed, the route is flexible.” — Unknown
“Every expert’s process looks boring from the outside. That’s the point.” — Unknown
“The process is the price of admission. Pay it gladly.” — Unknown
“Don’t judge the process by day three. Judge it by day three hundred.” — Unknown
“The process turns effort into skill the way pressure turns coal into diamonds.” — Unknown
“Slow process, strong roots. Fast process, shallow ones.” — Unknown
“Trust the process and keep your hands busy — worry is just idle hands with imagination.” — Unknown
“The process is happening whether you notice or not. Might as well notice.” — Unknown
“A broken process fixed beats a perfect process imagined.” — Unknown
“The process teaches patience to people who thought they had none.” — Unknown
“Trust the process like you’d trust a good recipe — follow it before you improvise.” — Unknown
“The middle of any process feels like nothing is happening. Keep going.” — Unknown
“Your process doesn’t have to look like anyone else’s. It just has to work for you.” — Unknown
“The process is quiet. The results are loud. That’s the deal.” — Unknown
“Respect every step of the process — even the ones that feel like standing still.” — Unknown
“The process compounds. Day one hundred is day one’s grandchild, many times removed.” — Unknown
“Trust the process, but bring your own effort — faith without work is just wishing.” — Unknown
“The process is the destination wearing a disguise.” — Unknown
“Every great result is just a process that refused to be abandoned.” — Unknown
“The process doesn’t ask for perfect days. It asks for present ones.” — Unknown
“Learn to love the plateau — most of the process lives there.” — Unknown
“The process will test you right before it rewards you. That’s the final exam.” — Unknown
“Trust the process, share the journey — someone needs to see it’s possible.” — Unknown
“The process is simple: begin, continue, finish. Most people fail at ‘continue.'” — Unknown
“A process you enjoy is a process you’ll keep. Design for joy, not just results.” — Unknown
“The process makes you ready for the thing you wanted before you were ready.” — Unknown
“Trust the timing of your process — late bloomers still bloom.” — Unknown
“One day the process will be the story you tell. Make it a good one.” — Unknown
Frequently Asked Questions About Process Quotes
What does “trust the process” mean?
It means committing to consistent daily effort even when results aren’t visible yet. The phrase comes from sports and personal development — the idea that a sound method, followed patiently, produces results that shortcuts never will. Trusting the process doesn’t mean waiting passively; it means working steadily while the outcome is still invisible.
Why are process quotes so popular?
Because everyone lives in some kind of middle — a fitness journey, a business build, a healing season, a degree program. Process quotes speak to that in-between space where motivation fades but the work still matters. They give language to the unglamorous phase that every success story glosses over.
Can I use trust the process quotes for fitness captions?
Yes — the phrase originated in sports culture and fitness is its natural home. Gym progress posts, transformation updates, and training logs all pair perfectly with process quotes. They signal something real followers respect: you’re focused on the work, not just the before-and-after photo.
How do process quotes help with patience?
They reframe waiting as working. Instead of “nothing is happening,” a good process quote reminds you that roots grow before shoots — which makes slow days feel productive instead of wasted. That reframe matters: people quit when waiting feels empty, but they persist when waiting feels like part of the plan.
Are process quotes good for business and startups?
Very. Founders and teams use them for pitch decks, office walls, and team chats. “Trust the process” language normalizes the long build and keeps teams steady through slow quarters. It also signals maturity to investors and partners — anyone can sprint, but building something durable requires process thinking.
What’s the difference between process quotes and motivational quotes?
Motivational quotes fire you up for a moment; process quotes keep you steady for a year. They’re less about the spark and more about the system — consistency over intensity, every time. If motivation is the match, process is the fireplace: one starts the fire, the other keeps the house warm.
The middle is where the magic happens, even when it looks like nothing. Save the line that keeps you going, share it with someone else in their own middle, and bookmark this page for the days the work feels invisible — the process rewards those who stay. More words for the journey are waiting at inspirational quotes and motivational quotes — come back whenever the middle feels long, and I’ll meet you there.