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• As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement. Guided by empirical data, the investigator rather develops a system of thought which, in general, is built up logically from a small number of fundamental assumptions, the so-called axioms. We call such a system of thought a theory. The theory finds the justification for its existence in the fact that it correlates a large number of single observations, and it is just here that the 'truth' of the theory lies.

  Albert Einstein

  Lying, Data, Numbers

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• I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.

  Henry James

  Creating Art, Artistic, Force

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• The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained.

  Marya Mannes

  Art, Effort, Age And Youth

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Years, Dying, Littles

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• Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, Thinking, Imagination

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• Just as you can't become a marathon runner by watching marathons on TV, likewise for science, you have to go through the thought processes of doing science and not just watch your instructor do it.

  Eric Mazur

  Watches, Tvs, Marathon

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• Therefore, the two processes, that of science and that of art, are not very different. Both science and art form in the course of the centuries a human language by which we can speak about the more remote parts of reality, and the coherent sets of concepts as well as the different styles of art are different words or groups of words in this language.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Art, Reality, Two

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• Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to improve institutions we deem defective. But let us, in doing so, respect the orderly processes of the law. Any other course enthrones tyrants and dooms freedom.

  Barry Goldwater

  Tyrants, Law, Persuasion

  Barry Goldwater (2010). “The Conscience of a Conservative”, p.27, Bottom of the Hill

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• One way we exercise political freedom is to vote for the candidate of our choice. Another way is to use our money to try to persuade other voters to make a similar choice - that is, to contribute to our candidate's campaign. If either of these freedoms is violated, the consequences are very grave not only for the individual voter and contributor, but for the society whose free political processes depend on a wide distribution of political power.

  Barry Goldwater

  Exercise, Political, Choices

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• Chess computers do not sweat during time pressure and commit costly blunders. Furthermore, the strength of these programs (over and above their faultless recall processes) lies in their capacity to make relatively superficial tactical decisions with incredible speed. Positional values, long-range strategy, aesthetic judgment, and political astuteness remain staples of human performance, man vs. machine results in the foreseeable future to the contrary not withstanding.

  Ira Carmen

  Lying, Men, Sweat

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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.

  Thomas Sowell

  People, Cost, Done

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• Nobody can be saved from anything, unless they save themselves. It is hopeless doing things for people - it is often very dangerous to do things at all - and the only thing worth doing for the race is to increase its stock of ideas. Then, if you make available a larger stock, people are at liberty to help themselves from out of it. By this process the means of improvement is offered, to be accepted or rejected freely, and there is a faint hope of progress in the course of millennia. Such is the business of the philosopher, to open new ideas. It is not his business to impose them on people.

  T. H. White

  Mean, Race, Ideas

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• Play is the state of mind that we can use in our creative process to our advantage.

  Jessica Walsh

  Play, Creative, Mind

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• A moment's thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.

  A. E. Housman

  Long, Painful, Moments

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• Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy.

  Rollo May

  Passion, Creativity, Commitment

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• Every other writer's process is sort of vaguely scary and appalling.

  Daryl Gregory

  Scary

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• The ability to change one's mind is probably a key characteristic of the successful investor. Dogmatic and rigid personalities rarely, if ever, succeed in the markets. The markets are a dynamic process, and sustained investment success requires the ability to modify and even change strategies as markets evolve.

  Jack D. Schwager

  Successful, Keys, Investment Success

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• In the peace process, the partner doesn't just sit and allow things to deteriorate to the point of disaster. The United States is needed with thoughts and with ideas, not only with the attitude of a messenger between parties, but - when things get rough - to come in and help with what is just and what is right, to overcome difficulty.

  King Hussein I

  Attitude, Party, Ideas

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• With the right person in place, a very distressing chapter in the Justice Department's history can be closed and the process of restoring its credibility as a strong and independent department can begin.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Strong, Independent, Justice

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• People who think achieving success is a linear A-to-Z process, a straight shot to the top, simply aren't in touch with reality.

  Donald Trump

  Reality, Thinking, People

  Donald Trump (2004). “Trump: How to get rich ; and; Think like a billionaire”

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• Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process
  of knowing by means of language.

  Mark Doty

  Mean, Knowing, Language

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• The market is in the process of correcting itself.

  George W. Bush

  Correcting

  George W. Bush's Speech at the Economic Club of New York, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. March 14, 2008.

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• To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well.

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Writing, Men

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• To be creative, an idea must also be appropriate - useful and actionable. It must somehow influence the way business gets done by improving a product, for instance, or by opening up a new way to approach a process.

  Teresa Amabile

  Ideas, Opening Up, Creative

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• Growth is always a gradual process, a bridge slowly crossed and not a corner sharply turned.

  John Powell

  Bridges, Growth, Corners

  John Powell (1995). “A Life-Giving Vision: How to Be a Christian in Today's World”, Thomas More Press

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