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• Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Life, Motivational, Choices Made

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• Strategic planning is the continuous process of making present entrepreneurial (risk-taking) decisions systematically and with the greatest knowledge of their futurity; organizing systematically the efforts needed to carry out these decisions; and measuring the results of these decisions against the expectations through organized, systematic feedback.

  Peter Drucker

  Expectations, Effort, Decision

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.120, Routledge

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• Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter.

  Andrew Card

  Country, Kyoto, World

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• What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

  Barney Frank

  Delay, Ethics, Republican

  "Oil-for-Food Scandal; Violence in Iraq; Operation FALCON". "News From CNN" with Wolf Blitzer, edition.cnn.com. April 14, 2005.

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• Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Trying, Essentials, Doe

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.34, Cato Institute

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• A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process.

  Joschka Fischer

  Moving, Government, Political

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• The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.

  David Cronenberg

  Communication, Mean, Stuff

  "Controversial visionary David Cronenberg sees technology, mankind, sexuality merging in 'eXistenZ'". Interview with Rob Blackwelder, splicedwire.com. April 14, 1999.

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• I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music, have children to my music and play my music at their funerals.

  Wynonna Judd

  Children, Reading, Play

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• I was not prepared for the actual process itself; having to go to the shop and having some molds done.

  David Naughton

  Mold, Done, Shops

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• When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore.

  Ang Lee

  Couple, Sitting, Schedules

  "Ang Lee and James Schamus". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2000.

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• That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.

  Anne Rice

  Lonely, Training, Groups

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• There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Character, Creative, Excitement

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• Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

  Marston Bates

  Reading, Research, Literacy

  "The Nature of Natural History". Book by Marston Bates, 1950.

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• Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.

  Brian Aldiss

  Writing, Pride, Reality

  "Bury My Heart at W. H. Smith's". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1990.

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• Creativity is the generation and initial development of new, useful ideas. Innovation is the successful implementation of those ideas in an organization. Thus, no innovation is possible without the creative processes that mark the front end of the process: identifying important problems and opportunities, gathering relevant information, generating new ideas, and exploring the validity of those ideas.

  Teresa Amabile

  Creativity, Successful, Opportunity

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• Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.

  Blanche Lincoln

  Priorities, Should, Capability

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• Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Quality, Movement, Life Is

  Moshe Feldenkrais (2011). “Embodied Wisdom: The Collected Papers of Moshe Feldenkrais”, p.11, North Atlantic Books

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• Perfectionism and optimalism are not distinct ways of being, an either-or choice, but rather they coexist in each person. And while we can move from perfectionism toward optimalism, we never fully leave perfectionism behind and never fully reach optimalism ahead. The optimalism ideal is not a distant shore to be reached but a distant star that guides us and can never be reached. As Carl Rogers pointed out, ‘The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination

  Tal Ben-Shahar

  Stars, Good Life, Moving

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• Regardless of where you are tonight, God is with you. God is wooing you. God wants you to experience Him. Whatever you are going through today, you can find His joy and peace. However distant your dreams may seem, God is working things out, and today is an important part of that process.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Dream, Joy, Important

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Feb 24, 2015

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  Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Change, Failure

  "The Mirror and the Garden : Realism and Reality in the Writings of Anais Nin" by Evelyn J. Hinz, (p. 40), 1971.

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• People like to think the creative process is romantic. The artist drifts to sleep at night, to be awakened by the subliminal echoes of his or her next brilliant idea. The truth, for me at least, is that creativity is primarily the result of hard work and study.

  Grant Achatz

  Hard Work, Creativity, Sleep

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• The creative ability of an artist is manifested only if he succeeds in transforming the natural phenomena into 'another reality.' This part of the creative process as an independent element, if conscious and developed, hints at the possibility of creating a painting.

  Frantisek Kupka

  Creativity, Independent, Artist

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• The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.

  Boris Sidis

  Men, Artist, Attention

  "The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology" by Boris Sidis, (p. 98), 1914.

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• Access to governance has to be guaranteed with transparent systems that deliver responses and outcomes. The strengthening of democratic governance empowers the population to become active partners in the growth process.

  Narendra Modi

  Empowering, Growth, India

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• Organic growth is a cyclical process; it is just as true to say that the oak is a potential acorn as it is to say the acorn is a potential oak. But the process of writing a poem, of making any art object, is not cyclical but a motion in one direction toward a definite end.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Writing, One Direction

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