Process Quotes - Page 16

• It is not primarily ideas that have a history; it is societies. And then what often seem opposed ideas can in the end be seen as parts of a single social process.

  Raymond Williams

  Ideas, Social, Ends

  Raymond Williams (2005). “Culture and Materialism: Selected Essays”, p.78, Verso

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• Recipes are not assembly manuals. Recipes are guides and suggestions for a process that is infinitely nuanced. Recipes are sheet music.

  Michael Ruhlman

  Suggestions, Recipes, Assembly

  Michael Ruhlman, Anthony Bourdain (2007). “The Elements of Cooking: Translating the Chef's Craft for Every Kitchen”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Education Research: This is a process whereby serious educators discover knowledge that is well known to everybody, and has been for several centuries. Its principal characteristic is that no one pays any attention to it.

  Neil Postman

  Attention, Research, Pay

  Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner (1973). “The school book: for people who want to know what all the hollering is about”

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• The uncertain and imprecise way of constructing a drawing is sometimes a model of how to construct meaning... The ethical and moral questions...in our heads seem to rise to the surface as a consequence of the process

  William Kentridge

  Drawing, Way, Moral

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• A book of mine is always a matter of fate. There is something unpredictable about the process of writing, and I cannot prescribe for myself any predetermined course.

  Carl Jung

  Book, Writing, Fate

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• Reengineering posits a radical new principle: that the design of work must be based not on hierarchical management and the specialization of labor but on end-to-end processes and the creation of value for the customer.

  Michael Martin Hammer

  Design, Principles, Management

  "Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution" by Michael Hammer, James A. Champy, HarperCollins, (p. 11), 1993.

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• Detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible.

  Andy Grove

  Problem, Stage, Productions

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• For the institutions of the European Union are at present incomplete. A European Senate is badly needed to complete them. By creating an upper chamber in the European parliament, a new bridge could be built between national political classes, which retain democratic legitimacy, and the decision-making process in Brussels. Such a Senate should be recruited by indirect election from exisiting national parliaments.

  Larry Siedentop

  Bridges, Class, Creating

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• The dance is the most universal of the arts, since, as Goethe justly said, it could destroy all the fine arts. It is an expression of all the emotions of the spirit, from the lowest to the highest. It accompanies and stimulates all the processes of life, from hunting and farming to war and fertility, from love to death. It enables, in turn other arts to come into being: music, song, drama. Despite all their riches, the dance is no formless complex, but a simple unity.

  Gerard van der Leeuw

  Song, Art, Drama

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• Simply bringing awareness to the process of breathing initiates the release of peptide molecules from the hindbrain to regulate breathing while unifying all systems.

  Candace Pert

  Breathing, Molecules, Awareness

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• The military gave me structure and process. That reflects on the way I believe we should handle legislative matters. If we do it that way in any field, the results are usually better.

  Ralph Abraham

  Military, Believe, Matter

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• Using the ‘military decision-making process’ is extremely valuable when making policy decisions.

  Joe Heck

  Military, Decision, Valuable

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• I think we're in a new era where the advancing tide is towards human unity, where people all around the world want to come together. The United States is in a position where it can lead the way towards that and it can do it in practical ways by affirming the power of the United Nations so that the international process makes decisions on international security.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Thinking, People, Decision

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• Have I said clearly enough that the Community we created is not an end in itself? It is a process of change, continuing in that same process which in an earlier period produced our national forms of life. The sovereign nations of the past can no longer solve the problems of the present: they cannot ensure their own progress or control their own future. And the Community itself is only a stage on the way of the organized world of tomorrow.

  Jean Monnet

  Past, Community, Progress

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• The essence of design... lies in the process of discovering a problem shared by many people and trying to solve it.

  Kenya Hara

  Lying, Essence, People

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• When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision.

  Edward Weston

  Art, Creative, Vision

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• Consensus processes starve innovative design by eating the resource.

  Fred Brooks

  Design, Eating, Resources

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• Process improvement is most valuable in raising the floor of a community's practice.

  Fred Brooks

  Practice, Community, Improvement

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• If you have unskilled people who work poorly together, no amount of process will save your projects.

  Jim Highsmith

  People, Together, Projects

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• Focusing on skills, communications, and community allows the project to be more effective and more agile than focusing on processes and plans.

  Alistair Cockburn

  Communication, Skills, Community

  Steve Adolph, Alistair Cockburn, Paul Bramble, Andy Pols (2003). “Patterns for Effective Use Cases”, p.18, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Process is not a substitute for skill.

  Jim Highsmith

  Skills, Substitutes

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• I have a feeling that any simple problem can be made arbitrarily difficult by imposing a suitably heavy administrative process around the development.

  Joe Armstrong

  Simple, Feelings, Development

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• Effective process is not bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is senseless process.

  Jeff Bezos

  Bureaucracy

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• The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and
  money began to play an important part in determining
  elections. Later on, this process of corruption spread to
  the law courts. And then to the army, and finally the
  Republic was subjected to the rule of emperors

  Plutarch

  Army, Play, Law Courts

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• And the thing about me is, I have a lot of mellow songs, because they're the easiest for me to write. I wanted to try to make some more upbeat songs, so, I ended up gravitating toward writing songs with friends, which was a great learning process, and also we came up with great songs. Those are the songs that came out the most naturally.

  Priscilla Ahn

  Song, Writing, Trying

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