Quotes about process
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Source: Postscript to the Name of the Rose
Source: Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
“The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before.”
Variant: The Muse visits during the act of creation, not before. Don't wait for her. Start alone.
“Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding…”
Source: Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo
“… don't spoil my learning process!”
Source: House of Many Ways
Source: Drinkers of Infinity: Essays 1955-1967 (1967).
Source: The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence
Source: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
Source: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Source: The Sociopath Next Door
“Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.”
Source: Endymion (1996), Chapter 44 (p. 449)
Source: Hyperion
Context: “Humanity has evolved—as far as it has evolved,” continued the old priest, “with no thanks to its predecessors or itself. Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.”
“Empathy,” Aenea said softly.
D. H. Lawrence : An Unprofessional Study (1932); also quoted in The Mirror and the Garden : Realism and Reality in the Writings of Anais Nin (1971) by Evelyn J. Hinz, p. 40
Source: Original Self: Living with Paradox and Originality
Source: Go Tell It on the Mountain
“so it's always a process of letting go, one way or another”
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
“Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.”
Source: Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge
Travis Parker, Chapter 4, p. 51
Source: 2000s, The Choice (2007)
“March: The Geese Return”, p. 18.
A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "January Thaw", "February: Good Oak" & "March: The Geese Return"
Source: A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
Source: The Wind in the Willows
Source: All About Love: New Visions
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Source: Skinny Legs and All
“Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.”
Source: The Fountainhead
“Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.”
Source: The Small Bachelor
“I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoy the process.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
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Source: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), Heaven and Hell [Episode 4]
Context: There are many hypotheses in science that are wrong. That's perfectly alright; it's the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.
Context: There are many hypotheses in science that are wrong. That's perfectly alright; it's the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny. The worst aspect of the Velikovsky affair is not that many of his ideas were wrong or silly or in gross contradiction to the facts; rather, the worst aspect is that some scientists attempted to suppress Velikovsky's ideas. The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge and there is no place for it in the endeavor of science. We do not know beforehand where fundamental insights will arise from about our mysterious and lovely solar system, and the history of our study of the solar system shows clearly that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources.
The reference to Cassius is that of the character in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar. Listen to an mp3 sound file http://www.otr.com/murrow_mccarthy.shtml of parts of this statement.
See It Now (1954)
Context: No one familiar with the history of this country can deny that congressional committees are useful. It is necessary to investigate before legislating, but the line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one and the junior Senator from Wisconsin has stepped over it repeatedly. His primary achievement has been in confusing the public mind as between the internal and the external threats of communism. We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men — not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular. This is no time for men who oppose Senator McCarthy's methods to keep silent, or for those who approve. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of a republic to abdicate his responsibilities. As a nation we have come into our full inheritance at a tender age. We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. The actions of the junior Senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and dismay amongst our allies abroad, and given considerable comfort to our enemies. And whose fault is that? Not really his. He didn't create this situation of fear; he merely exploited it — and rather successfully. Cassius was right. "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves." Good night, and good luck.
Kennedy's "focus on a more practical, more attainable peace, based not on a sudden revolution in human nature but on a gradual evolution of human institutions." was quoted by Barack Obama in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech.
1963, American University speech
Context: I am not referring to the absolute, infinite concept of peace and good will of which some fantasies and fanatics dream. I do not deny the value of hopes and dreams but we merely invite discouragement and incredulity by making that our only and immediate goal. Let us focus instead on a more practical, more attainable peace — based not on a sudden revolution in human nature but on a gradual evolution in human institutions — on a series of concrete actions and effective agreements which are in the interest of all concerned. There is no single, simple key to this peace — no grand or magic formula to be adopted by one or two powers. Genuine peace must be the product of many nations, the sum of many acts. It must be dynamic, not static, changing to meet the challenge of each new generation. For peace is a process — a way of solving problems.
“So that's us: processed corn, walking.”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Letter to H.G. Wells (10 July 1915).
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“Evolution is a design process; it’s just not an intelligent design process.”
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
“Life is a process--just one thing after another. When you lose it, just start again.”
Source: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and it's all small stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life
“Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.”
Source: The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Source: The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
