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“No one can stop or control your thought process or your thinking. You can think anything you want. But that doesn't seem to be the point. The thinking process has to be directed into a certain approach... not in accord with certain dogma, philosophy, or concepts. Instead, one has to know the thinker itself.”

Thinking Knows Want Philosophy Seems Certain Process Approach Concepts Thinker Dogma Accord Thought Process Thinking Process

Book:The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Seven: The Art of Calligraphy (Excerpts); Dharma Art; Visual Dharma (Excerpts); Selecte d Poems; Selected Writings

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Seven: The Art of Calligraphy (Excerpts); Dharma Art; Visual Dharma (Excerpts); Selecte d Poems; Selected Writings

“My vision is to not only define food and cooking as an art, but to go back to the roots of cooking and showcase the process through a more simplistic, ethereal approach as an expression of life and living.”

Art Process Vision Expression Approach Life And Living Roots Cooking Ethereal Showcase

Author:Lorena Garcia

“When we approach history, we are dealing with a conglomeration of irrational continua. Those who deal with history by nonrational processes are the ones who make history, the actors in it.”

Actors Process Deals Approach Irrational

Book:The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

Source: The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

“I take on a philosophical and postmodernist approach to the art-making process, investigating problems on a personal and intuitive level. This process is what fuels my mind and informs me, raises new questions, and gives my work resonance.”

Giving Mind Art Problem Process Levels Approach Philosophical Raises Fuel Intuitive Resonance Investigating Art Making

Author:Michael Bell

“If Zen is approached with the usual mental attitude, it will seem quite incomprehensible. Our average Western intellectuality would consider its paradoxical language simply as a play upon words. Its full significance is revealed only when we approach it in a different manner, making our minds available to the new processes of inner perception which it suggests.”

Ifs Mind Different Play Seems Language Process Attitude Perception Approach Western Average Available Significance Usual Paradoxical Mental Attitude New Processes

Book:Living Zen

Source: Living Zen

“Opinion in all parts of the world would agree that Rachmaninoff is the most complete of living masters of the instrument; his technique is comprehensive, and he is, of course, musical to his bone's marrow. Most important of all, he is a composer, and for this reason he is able to approach a work as none of his pianist contemporaries can approach one - that is, from the inside, as an organic and felt creative process.”

“The process of breathing is the most accurate metaphor we have for the way that we personally approach life, how we live our lives, and how we react to the inevitable changes that life brings us.”

Way Process Our Lives Approach Metaphor Inevitable Breathing Accurate Inevitable Change

Book:The Breathing Book: Good Health and Vitality Through Essential Breath Work

Source: The Breathing Book: Good Health and Vitality Through Essential Breath Work

“In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In the fulfillment of this aim, his greatest asset is the directness of the process he employs. But this advantage can only be retained if he simplifies his equipment and technic to the minimum necessary, and keeps his approach from from all formula, art-dogma, rules and taboos. Only then can he be free to put his photographic sight to use in discovering and revealing the nature of the world he lives in.”

Source: Edward Weston on photography

“At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.”

Has Beens Whole Lasts Evil Process Common Vision Our Lives Duty Approach Affair Weakening Common Life

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“It is becoming clear that many diseases - especially cancer - are highly complex and may respond better to a multi-drug approach which targets many different aspects of a disease process.”

May Different Process Clear Becoming Drug Disease Approach Aspect Complexes Cancer Target

Author:Eva Vertes

“When a peacekeeping operation is deployed, it is in support of a political process, it is part of an integrated approach. It is there to help when a state has broken down and to help that state regain some kind of balance. There is no quick fix.”

Kind States Helping Political Process Support Broken Balance Approach Down And Operations Integrated Broken Down Peacekeeping Quick Fixes

Author:Jean-Marie Guehenno

“I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural. It is, but there are a lot of times where people treat it like a sport - there are tricks you can pull, different combinations that make something better. I don't really think I approach it that way, but I definitely have a love for the science that is pop song writing.”

People Thinking Way Feels Writing Looks Different Song Sports Process Natural Numbers Perspective Approach Treats Patterns Pops Tricks Combination Outsiders Something Better Pop Music Pop Song

Author:Halsey

“No two situations are identical, but with years of experience you can usually find a comparison to something you did before, which shortens the process of deciding how to approach a job.”

Years Two Jobs Process Situation Approach Comparison Identical Years Of Experience

Author:Charlie Kelly

“In the history of photography, one process has always replaced another. The tumultuous realignment that's going on in the photography now is really just a natural evolution. The irony is that none of the processes that have been replaced have disappeared. More people than ever are practicing every approach to shooting and printing.”

People Has Beens Process Natural Evolution Approach Photography Shooting Irony Replaced Printing History Of Photography

Author:Keith Carter

“The quality of people you have around you as a manager is so vital. There are various factors that influence that process; fitness, form and the tactical approach to your opponent are all areas I review on a daily basis.”

People Form Process Quality Influence Approach Areas Bases Various Factors Managers Opponents Reviews Tactical

Author:Brendan Rodgers

“[Writing something original from scratch], the initial process is way different. But once it exists and you start to actually work on making it real, then the approach is kind of the same, for me anyways.”

Way Writing Kind Different Real Process Approach Originals Scratches Initials

Author:Zack Snyder

“Sometimes it's an external approach where one can learn the skills required, let's say, learn to play the trumpet and in that process other things happen. It's magical: through the process of practicing four hours a day you start focusing on emotion and when you pick up the trumpet it's filled with feeling.”

Sometimes Play Feelings Happens Process Hours Emotion Four Skills Approach Picks Filled Things Happen Trumpets

Author:Richard Gere

“Those titles, Executive Producer or actor, are unimportant. I always try to approach my role as an artist. The first thing you want to do, that you attempt to do as an artist, is to have some sort of input into the material that you are working on. That is how my process begins; I say to myself: "I want to do this kind of work or I want to do that kind of work."”

Want Trying Firsts Kind Artist Actors Process Roles Materials Approach Producers Titles Executives Unimportant Input

Author:Danny Glover

“...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.”

Pain Process Understanding Approach Openness

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“To be creative, an idea must also be appropriate - useful and actionable. It must somehow influence the way business gets done by improving a product, for instance, or by opening up a new way to approach a process.”

Way Ideas Done Process Creative Influence Products Approach Opening Instance Appropriate New Ways Improving Be Creative Opening Up

Author:Teresa Amabile

“Instead of thinking about building up my image or building up my brand or building up my career, I've turned it and taken the approach of focusing on what I can give instead of what I can get. It's been a very enjoyable process for me. That's more of a heart position that I've taken. It's been one of the greatest things I've ever done.”

Thinking Giving Heart I Can Done Process Careers Taken Position Building Approach Brands Enjoyable Building Up

Author:Kelly Clark

“All my other movies have the same process. Same approach. Same amount of changes. Everything. Things being made up on the fly. Changing things around. Firing and recasting. Constantly, constantly, in chronological sequence, not really knowing how this is going to end up. That is the only dogmatic approach I take towards everything.”

Made Ends Process Knowing Amount Approach Sequence Firing Dogmatic

Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“There are two kinds of filmmaking: Hitchcock's (the film is complete in the director's mind) and Coppola's (which thrives on process). For Hitchcock, any variation from the complete internal idea is seen as a defect. The perfection already exists. Coppola's approach is to harvest the random elements that the process throws up, things that were not in his mind when he began.”

Mind Kind Two Ideas Film Process Directors Elements Approach Perfection Thrive Internals Filmmaking Harvest Defects Variation Hitchcock

Author:Walter Murch

“There is no single approach that actors take to their craft. And the best thing you learn is that you have to really listen and respect each actor's own process and own method, and that takes a kind of delicate, non-imposing patience and openness, I think, to get the very best out of the people you work with.”

People Thinking Kind Actors Process Approach Method Crafts Best Things Openness Delicate Imposing

Author:Todd Haynes

“I think, in the initial process of discovering a character and the analytical process - and this is what I did take from Buddhism - initially I think there has to be an analytical, intellectual approach. And that has to be abandoned by the time you're playing the game.”

Thinking Character Games Process Buddhism Approach Intellectual Abandoned Discovering Initials

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“The interview process tests not what the applicant knows, but how well they can process tricky questions: If you wanted to figure out how many times on average you would have to flip the pages of the Manhattan phone book to find a specific name, how would you approach the problem? If a spider fell to the bottom of a 50-foot well, and each day climbed up 3 feet and slipped back 2, how many days would it take the spider to get out of the well? .”

Ifs Knows Wells Book Problem Wanted Names Process Feet Figures Approach Pages Tests Bottom Average Phones Interviews Each Day Spiders Flip Tricky Manhattan

Author:Bill Gates

“Each film has its processes. It doesn't mean that all animated films have to be like "Boy and the World," but creators have to have total freedom. There are films that are born with the purpose to sell. They are still admirable films with great artists and great visuals, but we wanted to use a more radical approach to create art. That's what we tried to do.”

World Mean Art Stills Use Wanted Film Purpose Artist Process Born Boys Approach Sells Creator Radical Visuals Great Art Animated Admirable Great Artist Animated Films

Author:Alex Abreu

“Rainbows is a pretty honest look at my approach to life and love. While I admit to not exactly being an angel, I do try and live life to the fullest and give as much as I can of myself in the process”

Giving Trying Looks I Can Process Honest Approach Angel And Love Live Life Rainbow Life And Love Live Life To The Fullest

Author:Beccy Cole

“Stephen Shadley is a great collaborator. Over the years I've seen him work with a wide variety of clients and stylistic approaches. He listens to people in a way that makes them feel like they're part of the process. Steve is an inspiration on all fronts, and, believe me, that's a rare quality.”

People Way Feels Years Believe Inspiration Process Quality Fronts Approach Wide Variety Believe In Me Clients Collaborators

Author:Diane Keaton

“It does no one any good to say their novel sucks if you don't have an idea how to make it better, how to approach it from different angles and make it work. It's obviously a subjective process, right? But the thing about subjectivity, at least in the classroom, is that you're banking on your professor's subjectivity to be both personal and professional - that he or she has some sense about the world outside the workshop.”

Ifs World Doe Ideas Different Process Novel Approach Working It Professors Classroom Angle Banking Subjective Subjectivity Workshops Different Angles

Author:Tod Goldberg

“It is a bit more challenging for the simple fact that now the stories I am writing are relying more on my imagination than on facts, more on research than on memory; so it is basically a slower writing process, more reading, more exploring. On the other hand, this approach is a little bit relieving too, since many times while writing [How the Soldieer Repairs the Gramophone] I felt too close and equal to my character.”

“I have to say that I approach every project with the same energy. I also think that, since I started producing, I see the process from a different perspective, which affects the way I jump on board immediately.”

Thinking Way Different Energy Process Perspective Projects Approach Boards Different Perspective

Author:Olivia Wilde

“10 years ago [in 2006], nearly 90 percent of those albums sold enough in that year to reach Gold status. 10 years later, about 30 percent were eligible. With the new rules, we figure about 40 percent of the top 200 best-sellers for the year will be eligible. We were very cautious in our approach to changing how we calculate what is eligible because the integrity of the process is our foremost consideration. It's difficult to get certified sales awards, and it's a big deal and we didn't want there to be a huge change in how many would be eligible.”

Want Years Enough Bigs Would Be Process Difficult Deals Figures Huge Integrity Approach Percent Years Ago Gold Albums Consideration Awards Big Deal Cautious Sellers Best Sellers Huge Changes

Author:Cary Sherman

“Should the political process not work, there is always the other approach.”

Should Political Process Approach

Author:Adel al-Jubeir

“The distraction, particularly of technology, impedes the innovative process. And when you add to that the distraction of working with colleagues who are in different time zones and/or who have a different approach to urgency and distraction, the potential for losing focus is abundant.”

Different Process Technology Focus Approach Losing Add Zone Distraction Colleagues Innovative Urgency Different Times Different Approach Time Zones Losing Focus

Author:David Livermore

“Who approaches collaboration with agenda in terms of content? The agenda is only in terms of process, which is generosity, listening, careful thinking.”

Thinking Process Term Listening Approach Careful Generosity Agendas Collaboration

Author:Eyvind Kang

“As you focus on simplifying your life, make sure that your approach to the process is a loving and accepting one. Know that you are doing all that you can do right now, and that is all anyone can do.”

Knows Process Can Do Accepting Focus Right Now Approach Simplifying Your Life

Author:Deepak Chopra

“The rabid opposition to group selection has now considerably subsided. In the process, the conceptual structure of evolutionary theory has become clearer, as have the relationships that connect different theoretical approaches.”

Different Process Groups Theory Approach Structure Opposition Selection Theoretical

Author:Elliott Sober

“The thing with my workshops is, photography is a thoughtful process. In an atmosphere of fast photography, and generally thoughtless, quick, automatic photography, I think that there is an interest in the slowed down, thoughtful approach.”

Thinking Process Interest Approach Photography Atmosphere Thoughtful Workshops

Author:Sam Abell

“Mary's [Hamill] working from an outsider perspective and I'm working from an insider-outside perspective. In this case, it will bring an added dimension to the visual aspects of the work. Also the processes and approaches that I'm thinking are about learning. I'm playing it by ear to experiment and see what happens.”

Thinking Happens Process Cases Perspective Approach Aspect Ears Experiments Visuals Dimensions Mary Outsiders Insiders

Author:Chath Piersath

“So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try to find some little seed crystal of interest, a sentence or an image or an idea, and as much as possible divest myself of any deep ideas about it. And then by this process of revision, mysteriously it starts to accrete meanings as you go.”

Want Trying Littles Ideas Stories Process Interest Approach Sentences Seeds Crystals Revision

Author:George Saunders