“We have no control over outcomes, but we can control the process. Of course, outcomes matter, but by focusing our attention on process, we maximize our chances of good outcomes.” MatterCoursesProcessChanceAttentionOutcomes Author:Michael Mauboussin
“Eternity is a constant learning process. It will be another grade, another step, a chance to do what we failed to do before and to learn what we failed to learn before. Thank God for eternity! We've all probably got a lot of bad habits to change and failures to make up for. Maybe God will give each of us a chance to meet people who we've wronged and straighten things out and tell them we're sorry.” PeopleGivingProcessChanceStepsHabitEternityConstantSorryGods WillGradesHeavenlyThank GodBad HabitsLearning ProcessWronged Author:David Berg
“I am not talking about rebelliousness, but giving people time for constructive internal reflection and even daydreaming. A lot of research is suggesting that the more that you demand people's external attention, the less chance you are allowing them to dip into the default mode where daydreams and reflection happen - and lot of great ideas are not going to come from the brute force of work but from personal life experience. Mind-wandering seems to be essential to the creative process, and I don't think a lot of businesses are aware of that fact.” PeopleThinkingGivingMindIdeasFactsSeemsHappensForceProcessChanceAttentionTalkingCreativeDemandEssentialsResearchReflectionWanderInternalsAllowingLife ExperienceCreative ProcessPersonal LifeConstructiveBrutesGreat IdeaDaydreamingNot TalkingDefaultSuggestingDipBrute Force Author:Scott Barry Kaufman
“Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is really at the mercy of external causes.” MenCausesProcessChanceDealsMercyAccidents Book:Bulletin Source: Bulletin
“The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation's development. A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success. Without a revolution of the spirit, the forces which produced the iniquities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration.” NeedsLittlesSpiritValuesOrderCoursesForceNationsProcessBornChanceViewsAttitudeConditionsPolicyMaterialsRevolutionDevelopmentShapesIntellectualAimInstitutionsConstantThreatConvictionImprovementGenuineReformOfficialsNeed A ChangeMental AttitudeRegenerationIniquityPosingQuintessential Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.” PeopleIfsYearsKindDifferentHardMomentsProcessChanceChangedWindBlowScaryBreatheBoatLakesDifferent KindsCanoeing Author:Seth Godin
“If you get a chance to go outside of the country, you start examining where you're from and some of the thought processes. Like when I finally got away from the east coast for a while, and I came back there was just this underlying anger that I never noticed before, because I was born there and just dropped right into it.” IfsCountryProcessBornChanceEastCoastExaminingThought ProcessEast Coast Author:Bill Burr
“Stories have tangents; they open up and become different things. You can still have a structure, but you should leave room to dream. If you stay true to your ideas, filmmaking becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process. And if it's an honest thing for you, there's a chance that people will feel that, even if it's abstract.” PeopleIfsFeelsShouldKindStillsIdeasDifferentStoriesDreamProcessChanceRoomsHonestStructureAbstractDifferent ThingsFilmmakingStay True Book:David Lynch: Interviews Source: David Lynch: Interviews
“A refugee is not just someone lacking in money and everything else. A refugee is vulnerable to the slightest touch: he has lost his country, his friends, his earthly belongings. He is a stranger, sick at heart. He is suspicious; he feels misunderstood. If people smile, he thinks they ridicule him; if they look serious, he thinks they don't like him. He is a full-grown tree in the dangerous process of being transplanted, with the chance of possibly not being able to take root in the new soil.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsLooksHeartCountryAbleLostProcessChanceTreeDangerousSeriousRootsSickStrangerVulnerableSoilBelongingLackingRefugeeRidiculeMisunderstoodSuspicious Author:Maria Franziska von Trapp
“If you view everything through the lens of fear, then you tend to stay in retreat mode. You can just as easily see a crises or problem as a challenge, an opportunity to prove your mettle, the chance to strengthen and toughen yourself, or a call to collective action. By seeing it as a challenge, you will have converted this negative into a positive purely by a mental process that will result in positive action as well.” IfsWellsProblemActionOpportunityProcessChallengesChanceResultsViewsSeeingProveNegativeCrisisCollectivesRetreatLensesCollective ActionMettle Book:The 50th Law Source: The 50th Law
“Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange 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.” LittlesHomeDreamTogetherProcessChanceCommonAttentionMarriageYouthMeetingsCrueltyGlancesBlindnessCivilityConcealedUneasyMaidensArtificeReciprocateHappy Together Book:Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings Source: Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings
“Nature is not personal. She is the compound of all these processes which move through the universe to effect the results we know as Life and of all the ordinances which govern that universe and that make Life continuous. She is no more the Hebrew's Jehovah than she is the Physicist's Force; she is as much Providence as she is Electricity; she is not the Great Pattern any more than she is the Blind Chance.” KnowsMovingUniverseForceProcessChanceResultsAtheismEffectsBlindPatternsPositive AtheismProvidenceElectricityPhysicistCompoundsHebrewJehovahOrdinances Author:Luther Burbank
“We have not done the things that are necessary to lower emissions because those things fundamentally conflict with deregulated capitalism. ... We are stuck because the actions that would give us the best chance of averting catastrophe - and would benefit the vast majority - are extremely threatening to an elite minority that has a stranglehold over our economy, our political process, and most of our major media outlets.” GivingDoneActionPoliticalProcessChanceEconomyMediaConflictBenefitsMajorsCapitalismMajorityClimate ChangeStuckMinoritiesElitesCatastropheThreateningOutletsEmissions Author:Naomi Klein
“I meet regularly with my staff to ensure they are aware of what I want, but also to make sure they have the chance to influence the process and use all of their knowledge to help prepare the group.” WantHelpingUseProcessChanceGroupsInfluenceStaff Author:Brendan Rodgers
“I would love to be better at cooking but I hate cleaning up afterwards. I love the process of putting everything together and the chance of getting it right or wrong but it takes ten minutes to eat it and then ages to clean.” AgeTogetherHateProcessChanceMinutesTenI HateCookingCleanCleaningCleaning Up Author:Mark Webber
“I love the process of auditioning and having the chance to play a million different characters in one week - it's great.” DifferentPlayCharacterProcessChanceMillionsWeekDifferent Characters Author:Will Poulter
“Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance.” WayGivingMeanDoeImportantFactsLyingProcessChanceCreativeProductivityLazyCrucialMeaninglessCreative ProcessDoing NothingKick AssBustleBeing Lazy Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“I consider myself a character actress, and that's working out. I'm getting chances to do things. I like the process - I don't want to pretend I'm something other than what I am.” WantCharacterProcessChanceWork OutActresses Author:Jacqueline Bisset
“What is the point of abusing yourself with guilt in the first place? If you did make a mistake and act in a hurtful way, your guilt won't reverse your blunder in some magical manner. It won't speed your learning processes so as to reduce the chance you'll make the same mistake in the future. Other people won't love and respect you more because you are feeling guilty and putting yourself down in this manner. Nor will your guilt lead to productive living. So what's the point?” PeopleIfsWayFirstsFeelingsProcessChanceMistakeGuiltSpeedGuiltyProductiveReverseLearning ProcessBlundersHurtfulLove And RespectSame MistakesFeeling Guilty Author:David D. Burns