Process Quotes - Page 17

• A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. Think of it as the altar of the Muse Oblivion, to whom you sacrifice your botched first drafts, the tokens of your human imperfection.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Sacrifice, Thinking

  Margaret Atwood (2006). “Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005”, p.107, Basic Books

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• Cognition is ... not an individual process of any theoretical "particular conciousness." Rather it is the result of a social activity, since the existing stock of knowledge exceeds the range available to any one individual.

  Ludwik Fleck

  Cognition, Individual, Social

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• Healing... is an active and internal process that includes investigating one's attitudes, memories and beliefs with the desire to release all negative patterns that prevent one's full emotional and spiritual recovery. This internal review inevitably leads one to review one's external circumstances in an effort to recreate one's life in a way that serves activation of will - the will to see and accept truths about one's life and how one has used one's energies; and the will to begin to use energy for the creation of love, self-esteem, and health.

  Caroline Myss

  Spiritual, Memories, Attitude

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing”, p.48, Harmony

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• When we have learned the process of faith for receiving healing, we have learned how to receive everything else God promises us in His Word.

  F. F. Bosworth

  Healing, Promise, Receiving

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• Growth is a process of experimentation, a series of trials, errors, and occasional victories. The failed experiments are as much as part of the process as the experiments that work.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Errors, Growth, Victory

  "If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules". Book by Chérie Carter-Scott, July 15, 1998.

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• Government usually doesn't work. It doesn't work because it is political. People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs. The difference between the political process and an honest life is the difference between parading around waving picket signs while hollering catcalls in front of the White House and getting up in the morning to go make a living.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Wise, Morning, Jobs

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.198, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The rights of the people who have done terrible things are hard to defend. You have to keep pointing out, the question is the process to determine whether they've done the terrible things.

  Barney Frank

  Rights, People, Done

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• As a street artist, I'm used to sharing my stuff with the public. It's a communal experience. I've learned not to be so precious, but rather to enjoy the process.

  Shepard Fairey

  Artist, Stuff, I've Learned

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Depending on where I am in the process, sometimes I have a page count and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I have an hour count; sometimes I'm just happy to string a few words together. I do keep pretty rigorous hours, because otherwise you never get anything done.

  Alice Sebold

  Together, Done, Pages

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're ultimately the author, so you do have control.

  Alice Sebold

  Character, Sound, Narrative

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think that if you're somebody who's a control freak, the process would make you crazy, but I'm kind of a process freak, so I'm excited to see what he does with it. I know it's not going to be my book, so just starting with that knowledge frees me from having to get all freaked out about it.

  Alice Sebold

  Crazy, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've never been a big fan of improvisation, because I think you appreciate the process and the cleverness of it more than the actual comedy in most cases.

  Alan Thicke

  Thinking, Appreciate, Fans

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.

  Yann Martel

  Book, Imagination, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do. For me, it's sentence by sentence, sometimes word-by-word. And I revise constantly. It's a very laborious process, but I love doing it.

  Yann Martel

  Writing, Way, Sometimes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Those titles, Executive Producer or actor, are unimportant. I always try to approach my role as an artist. The first thing you want to do, that you attempt to do as an artist, is to have some sort of input into the material that you are working on. That is how my process begins; I say to myself: "I want to do this kind of work or I want to do that kind of work."

  Danny Glover

  Artist, Trying, Titles

  "Danny Glover talks trouble". Interview with Ja'nell Nequeva, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 19, 2009.

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• As my family and I have worked through the grieving process, I've said all along ... that it may very well be that that process, by the time we get through, it, closes the window on mounting a realistic campaign for president that it might close.

  Joe Biden

  Grieving, President, Campaigns

  "Hillary's joy as Joe Biden opens her path to the White House saying he will not run against her". Article by Francesca Chambers, White House correspondent for dailymail.com, www.dailymail.co.uk. October 21, 2015.

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• When you start a company everything is going to feel like a mess. And it really should. If you have too much process, too much predictability, you are probably not innovating fast enough and creatively enough.

  Keith Rabois

  Too Much, Enough, Should

  "Lecture 14: How to Operate" by Keith Rabois, genius.com. November 6, 2014.

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• I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Natural, Realness, Uncompromising

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective and his process, which to me is a lot like the artist.

  Patti Smith

  Kids, Artist, Mind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I enjoy the making of the film and it's something for me to do. If nobody ever comes to my films, if people don't want to give me money to make films, that will stop me. But as long as people come all over the world and I have an audience and I have ideas for films, I will do them for as long as I enjoy the process. And I like the whole process of making a film.

  Woody Allen

  Ideas, Long, People

  "Woody Allen On ‘Irrational Man’, His Movies & Hollywood’s Perilous Path – Cannes Q&A". Interview with Mike Fleming Jr, deadline.com. May 14, 2015.

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• I was in correspondence with an anonymous source for about five months and in the process of developing a dialogue you build ideas, of course, about who that person might be. My idea was that he was in his late forties, early fifties. I figured he must be Internet generation because he was super tech-savvy, but I thought that, given the level of access and information he was able to discuss, he had to be older.

  Laura Poitras

  Ideas, Generations, Levels

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• I animated everything traditionally, on paper. I love how the texture of paper looks (it also matches textures of papier-mâché) and I love the tactile process.

  Signe Baumane

  Looks, Texture, Paper

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Most venture capital funds are too short-termist and exit-driven to deal with the highly uncertain and lengthy innovation process.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Innovation, Exit, Venture

  "What the Steve Jobs Movie Won't Tell You About Apple's Success". Interview with Lynn Parramore, www.ineteconomics.org. October 23, 2015.

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• Creatively, editing was the most painful part of the process for me.

  Desiree Akhavan

  Editing, Painful

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Sometimes to move forward you have to let go. I figured that out through opening myself up, allowing people into my creative process. It allowed me to write songs that surprised me, and in fact, inspired me.

  Ingrid Michaelson

  Letting Go, Song, Moving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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