Process Quotes - Page 9

• The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

  Francis Bacon

  Skills, Creative, Culture

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• Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

  Kenneth Clark

  Men, Gdp, Opera

  Kenneth Clark, British Broadcasting Corporation (1970). “Civilization”, London : British Broadcasting Corporation

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• As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Defense, Thorough, Missiles

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• What's so exciting and terrifying about the writing process is that it really is an act of exploration and discovery. With all of us, not just writers, there is a sort of knowledge of the other. We have a lot more in common than we realize, and I think writing is really a sustained act of empathy.

  Andre Dubus

  Writing, Thinking, Discovery

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• The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities.

  Colin Wilson

  Discovery, Illumination, World

  "The Outsider". Book by Colin Wilson, p. 231, 1956.

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• Dialogue is really aimed at going into the whole thought process and changing the way the thought process occurs collectively. We haven't really paid much attention to thought as a process. We have engaged in thoughts, put we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process. Why does thought require attention? Everything requires attention, really. If we ran machines without paying attention to them, they would break down. Our thought, too, is a process, and it requires attention, otherwise its going to go wrong.

  David Bohm

  Way, Doe, Attention

  "On Dialogue". Book by David Bohm, 1990.

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• To translate, one must have a style of his own, for the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinking through and molding the sentences; they cannot be reconstituted by piecemeal imitation. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one’s own style and creatively adjust this to one’s author.

  Paul Goodman

  Thinking, Style, Nuance

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• It did not take Man long-probably not more than a hundred centuries-to discover that all the animals except the dog were impossible around the house. One has but to spend a few days with an aardvark or llama, command a water buffalo to sit up and beg or try to housebreak a moose, to perceive how wisely Man set about his process of elimination and selection.

  James Thurber

  Dog, Men, Animal

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.955, Library of America

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• To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.

  Alex Campbell

  Conquer, Natural, Substitutes

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• From the point of view of the species, death is part of this whole process. You could say that species have evolved in such a way that individual members last a certain time. Perhaps a certain kind of species would be better able to survive if the individuals didn't last too long. Other kinds could last longer.

  David Bohm

  Death, Views, Long

  Professor Chris Jenks, David Bohm (2004). “Thought as a System”, p.60, Routledge

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• The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you.

  Robert Stone

  Dream, Writing, Creating

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• The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.

  Martha Beck

  Empowerment, Source

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• We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process.

  Michael Steele

  Quotation Marks, Use, Fingers

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• To be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me.

  Stephen Hopkins

  Simple, Actors, Able

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• Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.

  Henry Miller

  Add, Literature, Cleansing

  Henry Miller, Frank L. Kersnowski (1994). “Conversations with Henry Miller”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.

  Lester B. Pearson

  War, Discovery, Together

  Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart

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• I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.

  Matthew Fox

  Looking Forward, Fit, Enjoy

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• That's always been the process of our music, in a sense, keeping it simple, not being so heavy that you are beating people over the head, it's just weighted down and it's like, "oohhh I can't relate." People are able to relate because we talked about things that everyone has experienced, it doesn't matter your race or genre. Music was your mainstay. There was something in our element of music that connected.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Simple, Race, People

  Source: jessemuhammad.blogs.finalcall.com

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• I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying to examine, in 'Dog Soldiers,' the process of that blow falling on America

  Robert Stone

  Dog, War, Fall

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• It’s said that the shuffling of the cards is the earth, and the pattering of the cards is the rain, and the beating of the cards is the wind, and the pointing of the cards is the fire. That’s of the four suits. But the Greater Trumps, it’s said, are the meaning of all process and the measure of the everlasting dance.

  Charles Williams

  Rain, Fire, Wind

  Charles Williams (2016). “The Greater Trumps”, p.21, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• We are a time-starved people, obsessed with fitting huge achievements into our few years. In the process, we often fill our buckets with things that don't matter or work. But when we give up on trying to change what can't be changed, and simply embrace what we love, a miracle occurs. We notice that the moment to be happy has already arrived. It's here, now.

  Martha Beck

  Giving Up, Years, People

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• My responsibility is to obey, to surrender my heart and to yield myself to the will of God. It is in the process of obedience that we gain understanding. You can’t get the peace that passes understanding until you give up your right to understand.

  Bill Johnson

  Giving Up, Responsibility, Heart

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• This earth is one of the rare spots in the cosmos where mind has flowered. Man is a product of nearly three billion years of evolution, in whose person the evolutionary process has at last become conscious of itself and its possibilities. Whether he likes it or not, he is responsible for the whole further evolution of our planet.

  Julian Huxley

  Men, Years, Mind

  "The New Divinity". "Essays of a Humanist". Book by Julian Huxley, 1964.

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• Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done. You can do anything you decide to do.
  You can act to change and control your life; the process is its own reward.
  Women, like men, should try to do the impossible.
  And if they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

  Amelia Earhart

  Men, Challenges, Trying

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