Process Quotes - page 3

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered. (Daniel Webster)
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process. View quote
Salma Hayek
Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked. View quote
John Dewey
During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades. View quote
Xi Jinping
Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do. View quote
José Ortega y Gasset
I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages: (i) this is worthless nonsense; (ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view; (iii) this is true, but quite unimportant; (iv) I always said so. View quote
J. B. S. Haldane
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 alive. View quote
Gao Xingjian
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process. View quote
Lionel Trilling
Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk. View quote
Henry Miller
Nor does complexity deny the valid simplification which is part of the process of analysis, and even a method of achieving complex architecture itself. (Robert Venturi)
Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life's preciousness on our tiny planet. View quote
Ann Druyan
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives. View quote
Alvin Toffler
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit. View quote
Abbie Hoffman
Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success. View quote
Robert Kiyosaki
Apocalypse could not be repealed by the democratic process. View quote
Greg Bear
No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence. View quote
Yitzhak Rabin
A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace. View quote
Yitzhak Rabin
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process. View quote
Benjamin Harrison
Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind. (E. B. White)
One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity. View quote
Edward de Bono
Lateral thinking... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics. View quote
Edward de Bono
Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering the ability to work with them and change them. View quote
Peter Senge
Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God. View quote
H. L. Mencken