Process Quotes
5455 quotes by 3716 authors
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It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product of matter. For if my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions…
— John B. S. Haldane
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Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self…
— Bruce Lee
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It never failed—I'd buy a new journal, write like a madwoman for ten pages, then lose total interest in the process. Three months later, I'd…
— MaryJanice Davidson
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If you want to achieve your objectives, you have to be prepared for a daily dose of pain or discomfort. At first, it's unpleasant and…
— Paulo Coelho
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A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All…
— Shashi Tharoor
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Quite quickly I grew less deranged. I had begun the process of calming down, assimilating and compromising, which is necessary to live comfortably in the…
— Helen Fielding
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Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what…
— John Ortberg
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I haven’t had trouble with writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, clichéd…
— Jennifer Egan
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The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would rather not know…
— James A. Baldwin
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But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and…
— Carl Sagan
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Or maybe...just maybe this whole process is our training wheels towards something bigger. If we can reflect and know our lives, we might stay awake…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective. So it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust our lives to…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see…
— Seth Godin
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We tend to hold that popping medicine in our mouths and swallowing is the extent of our involvement in the healing process. We believe that…
— Inga Muscio
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If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I don’t admit to…
— Virginia Woolf
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Going out of style isn't a natural process, but a manipulated change which destroys the beauty of last year's dress in order to make it…
— B.F. Skinner
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You don't need treatment. The fever, inflammation, coughing, etc., constitute the healing process. Just get out of their way and permit them to complete their…
— Herbert M. Shelton
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A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.
— B.F. Skinner
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There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at…
— Rebecca West
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She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.
— Veronica Roth
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