“The question of crime is one of concern to everybody. But the position is that the security forces in our country for the last four decades did not concentrate on suppressing crime. Their main objective was to suppress, to crush political activity. And in the process, crime grew to unacceptable proportions. And criminals were able to form powerful syndicates, and they virtually took over the control of the life of the community in certain areas.” CountryAbleLastsFormPoliticalCertainForceProcessCommunityPowerfulFourSecurityCrimePositionGrewActivityAreasConcernDecadesCriminalsObjectivesOur CountryCrushProportionSuppressingSecurity ForcesSyndicate Author:Nelson Mandela
“I did four independent films during the break between 'Twilight' and 'New Moon.' I haven't even really had time to sit back and process it all. But when you do finally sit back and think about it, it's incredible.” ThinkingFilmProcessBreakFourHavensMoonIndependentIncrediblesTwilightIndependent FilmNew Moon Author:Ashley Greene
“It was natural that the direct wielders of the royal prerogative, men who sat in the Star Chamber and the Privy Council, who knew the secrets of the State and the necessity for prompt action, should despise the merely declaratory character of a good deal of Common Law process. To them we doubtless owe those four great pillars of Chancery jurisdiction, the injunction, the decree, the sequestration, and the commission of rebellion.” MenShouldStatesCharacterActionLawStarsProcessNaturalDealsCommonSecretFourDirectSatRebellionDespiseRoyalCouncilChamberPillarsDecreePromptsPrerogativeJurisdictionCommon Law Book:A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919 Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919
“I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really didn't know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it.” KnowsWholeUsePoliticalThreeProcessBehindsWatchesFiveFourWeekSceneBehind The Scenes Author:Michelle Rodriguez
“I actually had a week where I literally wrote four songs and all of them are on my album. But sometimes you'll go a week where you'll write songs and they never see the light of day. So that process takes a long time.” WritingLongSometimesLightSongProcessFourWeekLong TimeAlbums Author:Laura Bell Bundy
“Happiness isn't found in some finite checklist of goals that we can diligently complete and then coast. It's how we live our lives in the process. That's why the four pillars of happiness are faith, family, community and meaningful work. Those are priorities we have to keep investing in.” FoundProcessGoalCommunityFourOur LivesInvestingPrioritiesMeaningfulCoastFinitePillarsMeaningful WorkChecklists Author:Arthur C. Brooks
“...a college education feeds an adolescent in one end and gets a young adult out the other. In the process of those four years that person has changed significantly, and you and I have been agents of that change.....what happens, in the course of what we do, is soul making.” YearsPersonsHas BeensSoulEndsHappensYoungCoursesProcessFourTeachingChangedCollegeAdultsYoung AdultAgentsFour YearsCollege Education Author:Leroy S Rouner
“The choice--the dedication to one's highest potential--is made by accepting the fact that the noblest act you have ever performed is the act of your mind in the process of grasping that two and two make four.” MindMadeTwoFactsChoicesProcessAcceptingFourHighestDedicationGrasping Author:John Galt
“It's a terrible process, what you go through, during pilot season. All the shows turn themselves in and there is a good four to six weeks before you get phone call.” ShowsTurnsProcessFourWeekTerribleSixSeasonsPhonesPilotsPhone Calls Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar
“I don't go through a torturous intellectual process to decide what to direct. I know what I want to direct the second I read something or hear a story. I just know when it grabs me in a certain way I want to direct it. And then I spend the next four to six months trying to talk myself out of it, because directing is really hard! But it's true, I know essentially when and what I want to do next... it's an undeniable feeling I get and it's not the same feeling I get when I wind up producing something.” KnowsWayWantTryingHardStoriesFeelingsCertainNextProcessFourWindMonthsSixIntellectualDirectSix Months Author:Steven Spielberg
“I'm an actor who loves to direct film, if I find something that I'm compelled to do and want to spend three or four years doing. I really love the process, though. I might have to just say, "Yeah, I want to direct that," because I want to direct something, but that's just not the way my being is. It's got to be a necessity for me, otherwise I'll just keep acting.” IfsWayWantYearsMightFilmThreeActorsProcessActingFourDirectYeahFour YearsCompelled Author:Ed Harris
“People's conceptions about themselves and the nature of things are developed and verified through four different processes: direct experience of the effects produced by their actions, vicarious experience of the effects produced by somebody else's actions, judgments voiced by others, and derivation of further knowledge from what they already know by using rules of inference” PeopleKnowsDifferentActionProcessFourEffectsJudgmentDirectConceptionInferenceSelf EfficacyVicarious Author:Albert Bandura
“Yet Buddhism is four hundred years older than Christianity, and if it's not a universal religion I don't know what a universal religion is. There's also a strong focus on selectionism and the notion that religion plays a functional role in the evolutionary process. But religion is dysfunctional all the time, as well as functional. It's not so simple.” IfsKnowsYearsWellsPlayStrongProcessSimpleChristianityRolesFocusFourBuddhismHundredUniversalNotion Author:Robert Neelly Bellah
“It’s said that the shuffling of the cards is the earth, and the pattering of the cards is the rain, and the beating of the cards is the wind, and the pointing of the cards is the fire. That’s of the four suits. But the Greater Trumps, it’s said, are the meaning of all process and the measure of the everlasting dance.” SaidEarthProcessFireGreaterFourWindTrumpRainCardsSuitsEverlastingPointingShuffling Book:The Greater Trumps Source: The Greater Trumps
“The long takes process doesn't allow for that many takes. In the past I have shot over 50 takes of different shots. Sometimes you end up using take 64, sometimes take four.” LongDifferentEndsSometimesPastProcessFourShotsOver 50 Author:Alfonso Cuaron
“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.” SometimesPlayFeelingsHappensProcessHoursEmotionFourSkillsApproachPicksFilledThings HappenTrumpets Author:Richard Gere
“My stories take three or four months to fix, and it's not magical of a process. Ultimately it's a boring, difficult process. I write everything out, and then the parts I think are funny I put in bold. Then I go perform it. Then the parts that aren't funny, I unbold them.” ThinkingWritingStoriesThreeProcessDifficultFourMonthsBoring Author:Kumail Nanjiani
“I had a tremendous upbringing and foundation but as others like me have experienced, when you go to college, mom and dad are no longer there to help guide. There were some moments in college that really cemented my own convictions and beliefs. It was a real period of growth and maturity in my sanctifying process. I got married in college. That was a tremendous blessing. Four years later, we started having children and that gives you a deeper understanding of the Father's love.” GivingYearsChildrenRealMomentsHelpingFatherBeliefProcessUnderstandingGrowthMy OwnFourCollegeMomDadPeriodsBlessingMarriedFoundationConvictionDeeperGuidesLike MeMaturityFour YearsUpbringingHaving ChildrenMom And DadDeeper Understanding Author:Aaron Kampman
“I play an instrument that has four strings, and I'm still trying to get it right. What I've tried to do in the process of playing these four strings is to try and understand the people I meet, the stories they have to tell. And then become an advocate for them and their stories through music.” PeopleTryingStillsPlayStoriesProcessFourInstrumentsStrings Author:Yo-Yo Ma
“I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.” ThinkingDifferentUseProcessAnswersFourInformationBillsScreensDumbGatesSmarterProcessingRight Answers Author:Walter Isaacson
“Usually it is a painful process (writing), "Superman" came in 45 minutes; "100 Years" in four months.” WritingYearsProcessFourMinutesMonthsPainful Author:Five for Fighting
“The thing about how that process works is that it's more about the editing and time for judging the ideas. Most pieces I publish each week have been around for months. This is a response to the beginning of the strip, when I was making them so quickly. I would just conceive a piece, finish it, and then the next day see it in the paper. That was when I was doing dailies four days a week.” Has BeensIdeasNextProcessPiecesFourWeekJudgingMonthsPaperResponseEditingNext DayPublish Author:Paul Madonna