Process Quotes
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There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.
Joy Williams
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We do not evaluate the result but the starting point of the creative process. Precisely, this shows whether the form was discovered by starting from life, or for its own sake. That is why I consider the creative process so essential. Life for us is the decisive factor.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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What might once have been called whining is now exalted as a process of asserting selfhood; self-absorption is regarded as a form of self-expression.
Wendy Kaminer
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You find the book in the process of doing it. That's the adventure of the job.
Paul Auster
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Making music with people is a very intimate process.
Jeff Gutt Stone Temple Pilots
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Marketers have to move upstream now. We have to stop being the last step in the process and start being the first step.
Seth Godin
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For the artist who practises photography, capturing the image is learning how to sketch on some medium, but is only half the challenge; learning how to print is applying a subjective pallet to that sketch, and completes the creative process.
David Travis
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You're just shy of figuring out how to shuffle your horde of hormone-curdled control-obsessed malignant narcissists off world. In short, you were about to become our problem. But now there is no problem! Now there is a process.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms as invention.
Alain Robbe-Grillet
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We're slowing the process down. A large-scale disaster will occur and there will be another hue and cry about why we were not able to get the aid faster.
Craig Fugate
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The current diversity visa program does a disservice to our immigration policy and to those immigrants who have moved through the more traditional process that allows them to lawfully reside in this country.
William L. Jenkins
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C.P. Office sees its particular product (buildings) as the readily recognisable parts of its continuous design process.
Cedric Price
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My songwriting process is based on a formula: Color, tone, words. When I hear production, I initially identify the color that resonates with me. From there, I am able to translate the color into tone or emotion, which may depend on a number of things.
Ravyn Lenae
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We will help whenever we can to move the process forward and deliver security and justice for Palestinians and Israelis.
Jack Straw
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It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts.
Sean Durkin
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It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.
Cathy Lee Crosby
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Writing about craft has forced me to think more about my own writing technique, and to break down my process in ways that have been enormously helpful to me.
David B. Coe
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I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
Thomas A. Edison
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Contrary to what we've been taught, genes do not determine physical and character traits on their own. Rather, they interact with the environment in a dynamic, ongoing process that produces and continually refines an individual
David Shenk
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Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.
Bernard Lonergan
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Talent is a process, not a thing. Failure is not proof of an innate limit but rather is an indication of a skill we haven’t yet developed.
David Shenk
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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.
Francis Bacon
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One thing I can say right off the bat is that creating great editorial is a huge challenge, and you can't help but go through the process and not appreciate how valuable this skill is, and how much I admire the people who do this every day.
Michael Wolf
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I can't speak to how Michael [Douglas] approached it in terms of his process.
Curtis Hanson