Process Quotes - Page 9

The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.

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

In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.

In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.

The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure.

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

As modern-day neuroscience tells us, we are never in touch with the present, because neural information-processing itself takes time. Signals take time to travel from your sensory organs along the multiple neuronal pathways in your body to your brain, and they take time to be processed and transformed into objects, scenes, and complex situations. So, strictly speaking, what you are experiencing as the present moment is actually the past.

Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.

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.

I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.

Searching for new ideas is an endless process.

The Biblical story of the creation is an excellent parable of movement. The work of art, too, is above all a process of creation, it is never experienced as a mere product.

I know more now than I did in the past about the process of democratization. I know more about the pitfalls.

Free choice is one of the highest of all the mental processes.

I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies.

I'm more afraid of success than failure. Success makes us so sure of ourselves that we do not analyze the factors that lead us to our success. Instead, in failure there's an error that lurks that makes us reflect and in that process there is learning and that makes us better

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

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.

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

There is no universal template that can be applied to everybody. So everyone kind of enter the process in their own way, on their own time.

The translation process becomes a highly subjective thing - turning reds and blues into black-and-whiteness. It's really bizarre for me.

I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn.

I hated discussing ideas with investors, because then I become a Defender of the Idea, and that influences your thought process.

Archaeology is the only branch of Anthropology where we kill our informants in the process of studying them.

I love the joy in the improvisational creative process.