Process Quotes - Page 37

• Politics is a dynamic process. When I was a young man in the 1970s, Yasser Arafat had just perpetrated various terrorist attacks. Just a few years later, after I had entered European Parliament, the same Yasser Arafat was given the Nobel Peace Prize.

  Martin Schulz

  Men, Years, Nobel Peace Prize

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• So it's an interesting process just going through and seeing what works and what doesn't work, and what's the best version of it. It was a good process because I think we all collectively, when everyone would run into issues in the cut or know that things weren't working, they kind of glaringly stuck out so we could focus on fixing those things and it wasn't a situation where you would show it to ten people and you would have ten problems.

  Bryan Burk

  Running, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Screening is an invaluable part of the process, obviously, having test screening and you definitely learn something.

  Bryan Burk

  Tests, Screening, Invaluable

  Source: collider.com

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• So that was an important part of the process and strangely, early on, we started to realize, in that respect, we were successful in what we were trying to do, which is make a film that everybody would be able come out and not be scratching their head at all.

  Bryan Burk

  Successful, Important, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• If you've got a restaurant, you definitely want the line to be out the door the first night, but you're more interested in people continuing to come to the restaurant. And that's their outlook, a little bit. I think it allows for more creativity, in the process. It allows people to make interesting programming that maybe wouldn't have a place on broadcast networks, if you were just counting people.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Creativity, Night, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• If I step out too much while in the process and don't allow myself to get into it, the piece may not get made.

  Kalup Linzy

  Pieces, May, Too Much

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always try to stay objective, and to remove myself from the process and look at the film again.

  Marc Forster

  Trying, Looks, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• I love the long-form rehearsal process with theater, brick by brick, to build another life.

  Vik Sahay

  Long, Rehearsal, Bricks

  Source: collider.com

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• We [Afghanistan government] were in the process of cleaning up the government when these attacks happened in the north - not only in Kunduz, but also in other provinces. Our special forces are limited - we cannot be everywhere at the same time and we had to defend every district regardless of how insignificant it might be, because of the very social and political makeup of this country.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Country, Makeup, Government

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I try and absorb all the things that I respect in the artist's I've worked with.When we work with someone on, Live From Daryl's House, we really get inside their music which gives me an even broader idea of the writing process. I think I'm always learning from everything in life. There are really songs everywhere.

  Eliot Lewis

  Song, Writing, Artist

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• All investors must come to terms with the relentless continuity of the investment process.

  Seth Klarman

  Investment, Relentless, Term

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• The way to maximize outcome is to focus on the process.

  Seth Klarman

  Focus, Outcomes, Way

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• It is crucial in a sound investment process to search a mile wide than a mile deep with they find something - also.. never stop digging for information.

  Seth Klarman

  Sound, Digging, Information

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• And maybe the cereal makers by and large have learned to be less crazy about fighting for market share-because if you get even one person who's hell-bent on gaining market share.... For example, if I were Kellogg and I decided that I had to have 60% of the market, I think I could take most of the profit out of cereals. I'd ruin Kellogg in the process. But I think I could do it.

  Charlie Munger

  Crazy, Fighting, Thinking

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• Most people early achieve and later intensify a tendency to process new and disconfirming information so that any original conclusion remains intact. They become people of whom Philip Wylie observed: "You couldn't 't squeeze a dime between what they already know and what they will never learn."

  Charlie Munger

  People, Dimes, Information

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• I went to network on a handful of pilots, and going to network is the most stressful situation anybody can ever be in. You're supposed to be on point, you're supposed to be at the top of your game, the funniest you can be, in about five minutes, in front of people wearing suits who really don't care, and they've probably already picked their person, but they have to see a handful just to satisfy the process. It's the most horrible, horrible process known to man. I wouldn't want anybody to go through it.

  Andy Dick

  Men, Games, Stressful Situations

  Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. May 1, 2009.

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• To anyone who's trying to be an artist, in any medium, it's a very odd and lonely and nerve-wracking and scary process when you let anybody see what you're working on. You have to learn to listen to your instincts. Absorb other people's advice, opinions, or whatever it may be from the outside world, but at the end of the day, you have to be true to whatever it is that you're trying to say in that work.

  Brian Henson

  Lonely, Artist, People

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• ...when you collaborate with someone else on something creative, you get to places that you would never get to on your own. The way an idea builds as it careens back and forth between good writers is so unpredictable. Sometimes it depends on people misunderstanding each other, and that's why I don't think there's any such thing as a mistake in the creative process. You never know where it might lead.

  John Cleese

  Mistake, Thinking, Ideas

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• Data-driven predictions can succeed-and they can fail. It is when we deny our role in the process that the odds of failure rise. Before we demand more of our data, we need to demand more of ourselves.

  Nate Silver

  Odds, Data, Needs

  Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.17, Penguin

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• You are the instruments that God is gonna use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth. And he has involved young people in a political process that they didn't care anything about. That's a sign. When the Messiah speaks, the youth will hear, and the Messiah is absolutely speaking.

  Louis Farrakhan

  People, Political, Use

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• Intuition was not just visual but also auditory and kinesthetic. Those who watched Feynman in moments of intense concentration came away with a strong, even disturbing sense of the physicality of the process, as though his brain did not stop with the grey matter but extended through every muscle in his body.

  James Gleick

  Strong, Grey Matter, Brain

  James Gleick (2011). “Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman”, p.381, Open Road Media

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• Making one brilliant decision and a whole bunch of mediocre ones isn't as good as making a whole bunch of generally smart decisions throughout the whole process.

  John Carmack

  Smart, Decision, Brilliant

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• Adolescence was invented in the 19th century to enable middle-class families to keep their children out of sweatshops. But it has degenerated into a process of enforced boredom and age segregation that has produced one of the most destructive social arrangements in human history: consigning 13-year-old males to learning from 15-year-old males.

  Newt Gingrich

  Children, Years, Class

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• The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways. There's a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are), and when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.

  Alan Kay

  Real, Ideas, Apples

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• Truly world-class firms are always examining their business processes and continuously seeking solutions to improve in key areas, such as lead time reduction, cost cutting, exceeding customer expectations, streamlining processes, shortening time to market for new products, and managing the global operation.

  Daniel Baldwin

  Cutting, Keys, Class

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