Process Quotes - Page 4

• To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened.

  George C. Williams

  Simple, Doubt, Moments

  George C. Williams (2014). “The Pony Fish's Glow: And Other Clues To Plan And Purpose In Nature”, p.159, Basic Books

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• Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.

  Theophile Gautier

  Beautiful, Materials, Marble

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• While we believe there are fruitful opportunities to update and improve old rules, we do not want to set up a review process that could create a litigation morass.

  Fred Thompson

  Believe, Opportunity, Want

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• We are different people - you get a different take on the band whoever you speak to. Somehow, at the end of it, it goes through the filtering process and out comes the Radiohead thing.

  Ed O'Brien

  People, Different, Band

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• Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land.

  Carter Heyward

  Faith, Land, Belief

  Carter Heyward (1976). “A Priest Forever”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.

  Paul Samuelson

  Political, Support, Growth

  "The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures". Book by Richard Duncan, p. 232, 2003.

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• A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, Men, Progress

  Bertrand Russell (1985). “Contemplation and Action, 1902-14”, p.171, Psychology Press

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• Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

  Saul Alinsky

  Life, Mother, Children

  "Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals" by Saul Alinsky, (pp. 24-25), 1971.

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• I felt that the studio recording process makes you stand still too long.

  Kiri Te Kanawa

  Long, Stills, Studios

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• Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

  Willa Cather

  Inspirational, Life, Achievement

  Willa Cather (2002). “The Professor's House”, p.30, U of Nebraska Press

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• Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

  E. M. Forster

  Faith, Mind, Mental Health

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.

  Rollo May

  Creativity, Something New

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.39, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

  Gore Vidal

  Business, Useless Stuff, Time Management

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• When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

  Jim Hodges

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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• We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

  Eric Berne

  Sad, Knowing Who You Are, Civilization

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• That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years.

  Thomas Lennon

  Commitment, Years, Goes On

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• Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

  Jane Addams

  Inspirational, Peace, Reality

  Jane Addams, Jean Bethke Elshtain (2002). “The Jane Addams Reader”, p.316, Basic Books

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• But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.

  Bob Geldof

  Depression, Views, People

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• One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.

  Ella Baker

  History, Waiting, African American

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• Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.

  William J. Brennan

  Fundamentals, Use, Fairness

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• Today, we can tell people we have a testing process and facilities in place on a nationwide basis.

  Mike Johanns

  People, Today, Bases

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.

  Imran Khan

  Sports, Cricket, Depends

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• Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Eye, Essence

  Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1987). “Henri Cartier-Bresson, the early work”

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• Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.

  Hillary Clinton

  Integrity, House, Voting

  "Hillary Rodham Clinton: What Every American Should Know". Book by the American Conservative Union (p. 71), September 30, 2005.

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