Process Quotes
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The human condition is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process.
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One of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people... Sorting and labeling processes involve a trade-off of costs and benefits. In general, the more finely the sorting is done, the greater the benefits - and the costs... Sorting and labeling, whether of people or of things, is a sorting and labeling of probabilities rather than of certainties.
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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.
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The future is a process, not a destination.
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The future holds no terrors for a person who knows how process inevitably unfolds. They are always right and with it each moment.
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I was so lucky that I didn't have to audition. It's just such a grueling process, in itself.
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When we really understand time travel we may find out it's as common as dirt and has been going on all around us is all kinds of physical processes.
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We are living in a very pivotal time. The time that we inherit from science is a time to humble you, to dwarf you. It tells you that the sun will not fluxuate for another billion years, that species come and go, and, in other words, on a temporal scale you don't matter. And that now doesn't matter. But when you look at the release of energy, the asymptotic speeding up of processes, we tend to be xenophobically oriented toward the human.
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The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.
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We are at a difficult time, but I believe that by the process of argument we should be able to get to a point where we can get a second resolution.
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We are going to need organizations that are culturally equipped to adapt. They must have internal processes that are creative, generative, and productive rather than controlled, confining, and normative. In short, we must UNSHACKLE THE HUMAN BRAIN and exploit its productive potential.
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There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.
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I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simulated wild environment and, for those who have been tested on, who are disabled, aggressive, etc., their own space to live out their days.
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Criticism per se does not worry me. I've always solicited it as part of the design process.
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I try not to think too much about my writing process - I tend to feel my way forward and find more insights that way.
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The creative process is probably closest to problem solving, but it differs from it in a number of ways. In problem solving the immediate goal is a specific one ... in the creative process there is no such clear goal.
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I feel that one of the most important things I can do is connect climate change to the values, the faith, and the issues we already care about. And if, in the process, I have to sidestep around some very explosive mines, I will do that.
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Our senses are always part of the process.
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In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be to adjust the images. And it'll be to change the color of an actor's tie or change the little smirky thing he's doing with his mouth. Or you can put in more clouds or move the tree a little bit.
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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.
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When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.
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I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.
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But Gaza's not the end of anything. It's the start of a process.
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I saw Obama's thought process behind the few moments of free time he had and how he used them. So, I knew that him taking the time to call me meant he really cared and really deeply understood how upset I was. That's what made it so meaningful.
