Process Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues that were happening in places like Detroit, where there was a deep process of deindustrialization going on. So you have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality. All these things gave rise to the black power movement. The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.

  Danny Glover

  War, Cities, Issues

  Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. February 8, 2012.

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• I usually don't write about my life right when it happens. I process it, and I store it away. Then, when I get in the mood I pull the stuff back out.

  Lucinda Williams

  Writing, Stuff, Mood

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• A difficult regional situation doesn't justify one man's determination to hold onto power. It's clear to me that democratization is a very complicated process.

  Bidzina Ivanishvili

  Determination, Men, Complicated

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.

  Ted Alexandro

  Essence, Hopeful, Mourning

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• Thinking through quotes, which to say scouring a range of texts for insight, is one way to outline the process of thinking/feeling through a subject.

  Masha Tupitsyn

  Thinking, Feelings, Way

  "True Lovers are as Rare as True Rebels". Interview with Jacob Wren, logger.believermag.com. October 24, 2013.

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• I will not be standing for office. I'm nearing 70; there are younger people within our movement. I just wish to contribute intellectually to the historic process of taking Tunisia from the era of repression to one of democracy.

  Rashid al-Ghannushi

  People, Office, Democracy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate.

  Bill Bradley

  Thinking, Names, Political

  "Former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. January 24, 2011.

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• When I see my work in a gallery I often wonder how I got to this point. Sometimes the process of making the work feels like a blur, and I look at the work and wonder how I actually made it.

  Polixeni Papapetrou

  Looks, Sometimes, Wonder

  "Stories from the Other Side: Polixeni Papapetrou Exhibits at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, NYC". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. April 29, 2013.

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• I like the little chess match of how people move through space. I'm not comparing myself to Michelangelo with this analogy, but he said when he sculpts it's like finding the sculpture within. It feels that way when you are with actors, too. There's a natural way to do this with a natural language that flows and feels like real people talking. And you've just got to find it. So I enjoy that part of the process.

  Timothy Miller

  Real, Moving, Space

  Source: screenrant.com

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• In art and life we're always reading bodies and behaviors (and skies and skylines or whatever), constructing brief and shifting coherences, and I guess I want to capture that process of characterization and re-characterization instead of offering up a few stable, easily-summarized individuals.

  Ben Lerner

  Art, Reading, Offering

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• For me writing is an organic process that starts with engaging the language and then thinking about the structure of the novel as you move along. Especially in revision you start to notice correlations. Things come up, not self-consciously, because you're busy feeling your way through sentences and trying to push the language into new places.

  Dana Spiotta

  Moving, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.believermag.com

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