Process Quotes

I understand the process of politics and the game of television.

Nourishing the soul is the process of drinking at the life stream, coming back to one's true self, embracing the whole of one's experience - good, bad, or ugly; painful or exalted; dull or boring.

I love the process of working with people and having things going on, all the time, and just trying to trust your instincts.

I would say that working with Ridley Scott makes the process of directing much more terrifying.

Creativity is a catchall term for a variety of distinct thought processes.

The recklessness with which we sacrifice our sense of decency to maximize profit in the factory farming process sets a pattern for cruelty to our own kind.

I'm gregarious with writers and never with manuscripts . . . I [like to] create the illusion of seamless perfection, so I alone know the flawed homely process along the way.

I'm a very, very unreckless person. I mean, I look left, I look right, I look left, I look right, then I repeat the process and then I decide not to cross the road at the last minute.

When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.

I don't want to dive into that mud slide, which is what I consider the literary process.

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.

Any film is a collaborative process, you've got thousands and thousands of people working on it.

Not living in L.A. gives me a different perspective. I'm not so caught up in the daily process of self-congratulations that's out there.

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.'

I just thought it was important that people knew right from the jump that I've got problems. But in all seriousness, that's a huge part of my writing process.

I always wished to be a better planner. It seems more elegant, while my trial and error process is more akin to someone scratching an awful case of poison oak.

Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite process.

I fight terrorism as if there was no peace process, and I negotiate the peace process as if there was no terrorism.

I start casting early in the writing process, so I can tailor the script to the gifts of the actors.

I would love to produce a film. I have written a script and am in the process of writing another, so maybe it will happen down the road. I would love to do a film in Africa.

My creative process involves reading books and magazines, writing outside, and moving around a lot. I like to pace around when I'm writing songs.

I've always been a perfectionist, so I always wanted to sound better than I did. But, that's a never-ending process. You always want to get better. There's always room to grow.

The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.

There's no embassy for the United States in Iran. So, Iranians process those in other countries.

We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.

Knowing and understanding the people we love most is a process that continues well beyond their deaths... and is never complete.

To me the question of inspiration is an exercise in hindsight. The truth is inspiration is mysterious at the time. I don't think it's ever a rational process.

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.

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.

There's so much energy that's needed, for every stage of the process, so I don't want to do something that I'm bored by with characters that I don't like or actors that aren't going to surprise you.

A lot of people think that I grew up in recording studios and knew the whole process, but that was never the case.

Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

Sometimes you have to think about what you're going to say, in real life, so when you see that thought process going on in a movie, it feels real and looks real.

It was quite a process to narrow more than 400 columns down to 80. I write weekly, though, and I don't always write about President [Barack] Obama, so that was the easy elimination.

When they took me to do the camera test for the vampire make up, after they put the prosthetic on, I went though the entire process, I went back to my trailer and I looked in the mirror and I smiled.

Flirting is the first step in a long process of finding the right man or woman.

I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling short.

Fighting the ageing process just doesn't work. I think that actresses, ultimately, are responsible for the faces we give to women.

One thing that I would like to do that I've seen them not do that well is take women all through the process of the postpartum period in a more meaningful way. That would be my agenda.

For me, a director is such an important part of thE process. I really have to trust him. Because then you can kind of let your inhibitions down. You can go anywhere when you trust someone.

Everyone knows about the substantive issues of concern, like federal health care, but very little is said about the process, the lack of accountability.

Knowledge is the accumulation of information whereas intelligence is one's ability to process information to render good decisions.

The new prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, while a vast improvement on his predecessor is not doing much, if anything, to slow that process done.

I have a funny process : it’s called procrastination.

When you are a filmmaker, you need to be rooted, because committing yourself to producing or directing a film is a good three-year process.

If I step out too much while in the process and don't allow myself to get into it, the piece may not get made.

Of course I had a piece of luck I couldn't have imagine for myself in a million years: I got an agent. That sped up the process. I'd say it's a good idea, getting an agent.

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.

The process of praying isn't about letting God know what you need, it's about letting you know more completely how much you need God and how vital having a relationship with Him is.