Process Quotes
5455 quotes by 3555 authors
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The measuring and mixing always smoothed out her thinking processes - nothing was as calming as creaming butter - and when the kitchen was warm…
— Jennifer Crusie
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You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite—embellishment instead of insight. You either continue to write…
— Billy Collins
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In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men are the water.
— Natsuo Kirino
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The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born. All of the above principles then immediately go into action, a process which social psychologists…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and…
— Bell Hooks
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I had forgotten: this is what it feels like to live in time. The lurching forward, the sensation of falling of a cliff into darkness,…
— Charles Yu
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I used to believe, although I don't now, that growing and growing up are analogous, that both are inevitable and uncontrollable processes. Now it seems…
— Nick Hornby
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Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and…
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay…
— Gao Xingjian
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Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by…
— Evelyn Underhill
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Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
— Isabel Allende
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We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in…
— Alain de Botton
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The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature…
— Franz Kafka
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I believe in God. Maybe not the Catholic God or even the Christian one because I have a hard time seeing any God as elitist.…
— Dennis Lehane
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The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get distracted…
— Walter Mosley
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Even though he was here, she couldn't quite process it. She squeered her eyes shut before opening them again. Yep, still there. Amazing.
— Nicholas Sparks
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I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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To fill a small bag means selecting,and choosing, and evaluating. There's no logicial end to that process. Pretty soon I would have a big bag,…
— Lee Child
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Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were…
— Frederick Buechner
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The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the…
— Orson Scott Card
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