Processes Quotes

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Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary. — Paul Bowles
Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and… — Erich Fromm
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement each other, creating… — Haruki Murakami
A snowflake is probably quite unconscious of forming a crystal, but what it does may be worth study even if we are willing to leave… — Northrop Frye
The well-being of a neuron depends on its ability to communicate with other neurons. Studies have shown that electrical and chemical stimulation from both a… — Lisa Genova
It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth. — Aleister Crowley
...looking angrily at the wombat: and a moment later, 'Come now, Stephen, this is coming it pretty high: your brute is eating my hat.' 'So… — Patrick O'Brian
The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large. — Kurt Vonnegut
At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual's sharing a nonverbal focus on the energy… — Daniel J. Siegel
I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Each of us needs periods in which our minds can focus inwardly. Solitude is an essential experience for the mind to organize its own processes… — Daniel J. Siegel
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
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
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
Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so does a man develop in himself… — Rudolf Steiner
Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and… — Richard Wright
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
The difference between magic and meditation methods is the difference between drugs and dietâ€”medicines will do swiftly what diet can only effect slowly, and in… — Dion Fortune
Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women. — Naomi Wolf
Life is bigger than processes and overflows and dwarfs them. — Dale Carnegie

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