Process Quotes - page 4

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot. (Audre Lorde)
Learning's always a painful process. View quote
Luc Besson
During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure. View quote
Lord Byron
To sum up: numbers appear to represent both an attribute of matter and the unconscious foundation of our mental process. For this reason, number forms, according to Jung, that particular element that unites the realms of matter and psyche. It is "real” in a double sense, as an archetypal image and as a qualitative manifestation in the realm of outer-world experience. View quote
Marie-Louise von Franz
A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
It is clear that every civilization undergoes a process of historical change. We can see that a civilization comes into existence, passes through a long experience, and eventually goes out of existence. View quote
Carroll Quigley
The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn is a very significant one. View quote
Carroll Quigley
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects. (Margaret Thatcher)
Reaching and understanding is the process of bringing about an agreement on the presupposed basis of validity claims that are mutually recognized. View quote
Jürgen Habermas
The interpretation of a case is corroborated only by the successful continuation of a self-formative process, that is by the completion of self-reflection, and not in any unmistakable way by what the patient says or how he behaves. View quote
Jürgen Habermas
Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers. View quote
Franz Boas
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation. View quote
Noam Chomsky
During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible. View quote
Niklaus Wirth
It [Open Source] is a massively parallel drunkards' walk filtered by a Darwinian process. View quote
Bruce Perens
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves. View quote
Diana, Princess of Wales
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning. (A. B. Yehoshua)
A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process. View quote
Abel Ferrara
Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task. View quote
Martha Stout
All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process. View quote
M. Scott Peck
Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together. View quote
Oscar Arias Sanchez