Process Quotes - Page 19

• You've got to know when to let a woman go if you want to keep her,and if you don't want to keep her you let her go anyhow so it's always a process of letting go, one way or the other.

  Charles Bukowski

  Letting Go, Want, Way

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• Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong.

  Allan Sandage

  Self, Progress, Institutions

  Interview with Alan Lightman, www.aip.org. January 11, 1989.

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• Memeticists have to give empirical evidence to support the claim that, in the micro-processes of cultural transmission, elements of culture inherit all or nearly all their relevant properties from other elements of culture that they replicate.

  Dan Sperber

  Giving, Support, Culture

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• Once we have a sense of how long a decision should take, we generally should delay the moment of decision until the last possible instant. If we have an hour, we should wait 59 minutes before responding. If we have a year, we should wait 364 days. Even if we have just half a second, we should wait as long as we possibly can ... Life might be a race against time but it is enriched when we rise above our instincts and stop the clock to process and understand what we are doing and why. A wise decision requires reflection, and reflection requires a pause.

  Frank Partnoy

  Wise, Reflection, Years

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• Software is usually expected to be modified over the course of its productive life. The process of converting one correct program into a different correct program is extremely challenging.

  Douglas Crockford

  Productive Life, Challenges, Different

  Douglas Crockford (2008). “JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts”, p.94, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and achieving mental growth. They are one and the same.

  M. Scott Peck

  Spiritual, Growth, Mind

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• We must never mistake the process for the result...there is suffering; but this is only the process. God isn't going to stop with the process; He wants to produce the final result. Suffering leads to glory; shame leads to honor; weakness leads to power. This is God's way of doing things.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Mistake, Honor, Suffering

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• When I ceased to accept the teaching of my youth, it was not so much a process of giving up beliefs, as of discovering that I had never really believed.

  Leslie Stephen

  Giving Up, Teaching, Belief

  Frederic William Maitland, Leslie Stephen (2012). “The Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen”, p.133, Cambridge University Press

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• Fitness has to be fun. If it is not play there will be no fitness. Play, you see, is where the process. Fitness is merely the product.

  George A. Sheehan

  Fun, Play, Products

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• Basically you can do anything in a film. I could have place a spaceship in the middle of a street. You can do anything, and I love to talk about this because is so organic to the process.

  Kleber Mendonca Filho

  Film, Middle, Spaceships

  "Interview: Kebler Mendonça Filho on his film ‘Neighboring Sounds’". Interview with Carlos Aguilar, www.indiewire.com. December 5, 2013.

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• A very high fraction of America's economic problems come not from our difficulties with education or globalization or competition with the Chinese or whatever. But they come from the fact that a small number of wealthy and powerful people who run dangerous and/or inefficient companies are able, through the use of money in the political process, to prevent the government from regulating them properly.

  Charles Ferguson

  Running, Powerful, Small Numbers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• With non-professionals, there's a lot of time you have to allocate to getting what you want with them, but also you cast based on who they are, to bring out their real personalities. So it's less about working on character and more about just getting them comfortable in front of the camera to be themselves, and understanding the process.

  Charles Burnett

  Real, Character, Personality

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I never really know when anyone is nominated for anything; I just know when people win. I don't even know how the submission process works.

  Hosea Chanchez

  Winning, People, Submission

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I always dread the process of writing because I'm not a writer. I'm an audible guy, I'm a verbal guy. I love to talk. I write a book every couple years, but it just takes everything out of me to get a book out.

  T.C. Boyle

  Couple, Book, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have bad days. Sometimes I have a lot of bad days. By and large, I think most people fall into a bad mood because they're able to ruminate on whatever the problem at hand is, and that makes it worse. But when you intercept the rumination process with something that requires your full attention - that's stimulating and absorbing, that places a demand on your intellectual focus - you don't get to ruminate. In a way, it's a mental health aid to be able to do that so much. My routine, what I do, it just feels like home. It's my comfort food.

  Maria Popova

  Fall, Home, Bad Day

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• The impression I got during the research and interview process was that they are trying to own the disease and therefore own the cause which can ultimately be more profitable for some corporations and fund-raising groups.

  Ravida Din

  Trying, Groups, Research

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We're not allowed to carry out harsh interrogations anymore, but we're allowed to fly over somebody's village, without due process, and kill them all?

  Howard Gordon

  Village, Harsh, Interrogation

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• My experience has nothing to do with creation, I don't think, even though maturity is helpful. In a creation process, there's an intuition that takes you and if it's nourished with awareness and experience, it's great.

  Juliette Binoche

  Maturity, Thinking, Intuition

  "Juliette Binoche Talks ‘Elles,’ Masturbation & her Upcoming Portrayal of Camille Claudel". Interview with Matt Mueller, www.indiewire.com. April 23, 2012.

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• There's always criticism in any process and I think that's a healthy thing.

  Jihan El-Tahri

  Thinking, Healthy, Criticism

  "Africa First 2012 Profile: Advisor Jihan El-Tahri On Pressures, Successes & Criticisms Of Program". Interview with Tambay A. Obenson Apr 10, 2012 2:30 pm, www.indiewire.com. April 10, 2012.

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• Writing is really freeing because it's the only part of the process where it's just you and the characters and you are by yourself in a room and you can just hash it out. There are no limitations.

  Dee Rees

  Writing, Character, Rooms

  "Interview with Dee Rees – Writer and Director of Pariah". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. December 27, 2011.

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• I love the freedom of writing and then I love the realization of directing. I can't favor one or the other. I enjoy both parts of the process.

  Dee Rees

  Writing, Realization, Favors

  "Interview with Dee Rees – Writer and Director of Pariah". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. December 27, 2011.

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• Because, we assume, these days, you just get in a car, you turn the key, and woosh, you're up the road. Or even now, dare I say, you don't turn a key; you get in a car and you're up the road. And yet with this particular car, it was a five-step process to start it. So how do I let the reader know that?

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Keys, Car, Steps

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I consider myself a character actress, and that's working out. I'm getting chances to do things. I like the process - I don't want to pretend I'm something other than what I am.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Character, Work Out, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem old-fashioned, I'm sure, like the time of illuminated manuscripts.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Book, Firsts, Sinking

  "A Voice in Haiti’s Chorus". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. 2010.

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• Instructional programming is really great. To me, it's very enjoyable to watch a process.

  Thu Tran

  Watches, Programming, Really Great

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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