“Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage. I've always written in the long format, five, eight, 10-minute pieces rather than one-liners, so since writing books, the process hasn't changed much. A piece in my live routine can end up as part of one of my HBO specials, and it can also end up in one of the books.” WritingLongBookEndsProcessFivePiecesWrittenMinutesStageChangedEightRoutineWriting A BookDepartureFormatOne LinerHboDrastic Author:George Carlin
“Look at Goethe, at Lamartine and at many others! To depict feelings on this high plane, you must give up the process of minute and insignificant observation which is the bane of the artists of to-day.” GivingLooksFeelingsArtistProcessMinutesGiving UpObservationPlanesInsignificantBane Author:Paul Bourget
“I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you.” PeopleProcessComedyMinutesPaintingMiles Author:Jonathan Winters
“It gets on my nerves when women take too much time on makeup. You would think after a lifetime they would have the process down to less than 45 minutes!” ThinkingProcessToo MuchMinutesLifetimeMakeupNerves Author:Christopher
“There's people that say “It's not fair You have all that stuff.” I wasn't born with it. It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you're new at this- and by “new at it.” I mean 15 years in, or even 20- you're just starting to grow traction. Young musicians believe they should be able to throw a band together and be famous, and anything that's in their way is unfair and evil. What are you, in your 20s, you picked up a guitar? Give it a minute.” PeopleIfsWayGivingShouldYearsBelieveMeanWholeAbleTogetherYoungEvilGrowsStuffProcessBornMinutesBandMusicianFairsGuitarStartingWhole LifeHorribleUnfairNot FairTraction Author:Louis C. K.
“We must never put our dreams of success as God's purpose for us; His purpose may be exactly the opposite. His purpose is that I depend on HIM and in HIS power NOW. His end is the process. It is the process, not the end, which is glorifying to God....His purpose is for this minute, not for something in the future. We have nothing to do with the 'afterwards' of obedience. If we have a further end in view, we do not pay sufficient attention to the immediate present; if we realize that obedience is the end, then each moment as it comes is precious.” IfsMayEndsMomentsDreamPurposeProcessRealizingViewsPayAttentionMinutesDependsOppositesObedienceSufficientOur Dreams Author:Oswald Chambers
“The idea that we are "stewards of the earth" is another symptom of human arrogance. Imagine yourself with the task of overseeing your body's physical processes. Do you understand the way it works well enough to keep all its systems in operation? Can you make your kidneys function? Can you control the removal of waste? Are you conscious of the blood flow through your arteries, or the fact that you are losing a hundred thousand skin cells a minute?” WayHumansWellsIdeasEnoughFactsBodyEarthProcessImagineBloodMinutesThousandWasteLosingConsciousHundredFlowTasksSkinsFunctionEnvironmentalYour BodyCellsOperationsArroganceSymptomsStewardshipRemovalKidneysStewardsArteriesBlood FlowOverseeing Author:Lynn Margulis
“In the creative process, my ego has always been a huge tyrant ... a dictator and kind of rude and very misleading, because sometimes when I'm doing something, I say, "This is great! This is fantastic! Very genius!" And 20 minutes later, I feel like a dead jellyfish. "You are a stupid a**hole. This is a piece of sh*t. Nobody will care about it."” FeelsKindSometimesCareProcessCreativePiecesMinutesStupidHugeGeniusEgoHolesFantasticTyrantsCreative ProcessDictatorRudeMisleadJellyfish Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“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
“Arriving to class late is disruptive of the learning process. I think that it is disrespectful to both the instructor and the students. I generally find a problem with students being tardy to my 9:10 a.m. class, in which students would come in thirty minutes late to this fifty minute class. I started locking my door at 9:15 second semester.” ThinkingProblemProcessClassDoorsMinutesStudentsLateThirtyFiftyLearning ProcessArrivingInstructorsDisruptiveDisrespectfulSemester Author:Patricia McCormick
“I tend to write songs fast, so the process usually only lasts around 30 minutes. In the studio is where I really can artistically breathe, and let my ideas flow.” WritingIdeasLastsSongProcessMinutesFlowStudiosBreathe Author:Alan Cohen
“Once we have a sense of how long a decision should take, we generally should delay the moment of decision until the last possible instant. If we have an hour, we should wait 59 minutes before responding. If we have a year, we should wait 364 days. Even if we have just half a second, we should wait as long as we possibly can ... Life might be a race against time but it is enriched when we rise above our instincts and stop the clock to process and understand what we are doing and why. A wise decision requires reflection, and reflection requires a pause.” IfsShouldYearsLongMomentsMightLastsWaitingProcessHoursDecisionRaceHalfWiseMinutesReflectionInstinctClockInstantPausesDelayRise AboveRespondingWise DecisionRace Against Time Author:Frank Partnoy
“I've had a beard a fair few times and, like most guys, when I shave the beard off I experiment with a few different facial hair styles on the way down to clean shaven. But I've never actually had a moustache for any longer than about 10-15 minutes - during the process of shaving off the beard.” WayDifferentGuyProcessMinutesStyleHairFairsCleanExperimentsBeardFacialShavingMoustacheFacial HairClean Shaven Author:James Magnussen
“Everyone's opinion is of equal value, which is bizarre to me. It's so hard to get anybody cast because you'll be on the phone with 15 people, and if anybody says I don't know about that guy - move on. Wait a minute, why is that person's note valid? It's such a bizarre process that's sprung up around it.” PeopleIfsKnowsPersonsHardMovingGuyValuesWaitingProcessOpinionMinutesEqualNotesCastsPhonesBizarreThat GuySprungSprung Up Author:Edward Allen Bernero
“Warren Buffett has said many times that people either get value investing in five minutes or they won't get it in five years. So, there is something in the human brain, that for some of us, makes all the difference in the world right away and the patience it requires is part of the wiring process.” PeopleWorldYearsHumansSaidValuesProcessDifferencesBrainFiveMinutesInvestingFive YearsFive MinutesHuman BrainBuffettWiringWarren Buffet Author:Mohnish Pabrai
“I went to network on a handful of pilots, and going to network is the most stressful situation anybody can ever be in. You're supposed to be on point, you're supposed to be at the top of your game, the funniest you can be, in about five minutes, in front of people wearing suits who really don't care, and they've probably already picked their person, but they have to see a handful just to satisfy the process. It's the most horrible, horrible process known to man. I wouldn't want anybody to go through it.” PeopleMenWantPersonsCareGamesProcessSituationKnownFiveMinutesFrontsDon't CareHorribleSuitsSupposed To BePilotsFive MinutesHandfulStressfulStressful SituationsWearing A Suit Author:Andy Dick
“When you see a fashion show, you see those seven minutes of what was six months of tedious work of, you know, going up an inch and down an inch, changing it from one shade of red to another shade of red. So it's the same as any creative process. The result is what we see, but the process is really labor intensive and work.” KnowsShowsProcessResultsCreativeMinutesFashionMonthsSixRedLaborSevenShadeInchesCreative ProcessSix MonthsTediousFashion Show Author:Marc Jacobs
“Usually it is a painful process (writing), "Superman" came in 45 minutes; "100 Years" in four months.” WritingYearsProcessFourMinutesMonthsPainful Author:Five for Fighting
“I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process” ThinkingProcessMinutesChaosPortionsMoleculesMajestic Book:Transition Source: Transition
“I'm a very, very unreckless person. I mean, I look left, I look right, I look left, I look right, then I repeat the process and then I decide not to cross the road at the last minute.” LooksMeanPersonsLastsLeftProcessMinutesCrossesRepeatsLast Minute Author:Jonathan Meades
“I'm fine watching stuff on tape, to me casting is the most painful part of the whole process, it's like going on a horribly awkward date every five minutes for eight hours, and people come in and they'll be someone good but they're not right, and you want to tell them they're good, but it sounds like BS, and they're looking at your face to see how they did, what adjustments they need, and it's just so emotionally draining, and it goes on and on.” PeopleWantNeedsWholeFacesStuffProcessSoundHoursFiveMinutesFineGoes OnPainfulEightYour FaceTapeAwkwardCastingFive MinutesAdjustmentDraining Author:Mike Judge
“I remember you would record a guitar part, and we would have to sit there for 15 or 20 minutes waiting for the computer to process it. You'd see the little wheel spinning on the computer, and you'd be praying that the hard drive didn't crash and you didn't lose the performance.” LittlesHardRememberWaitingProcessLosesRecordsMinutesPrayingComputerPerformancesGuitarWheelsCrashSpinningRemember YouRemembers You Author:Beck
“Actually, one Anthem cue is a good example of the process. There is a four-minute sequence of music in Anthem, which underscores a prison sequence, and it lines up with five different, smaller scenes within one large scene.” DifferentProcessLinesFiveFourMinutesExampleScenePrisonSequenceGood ExamplesAnthem Author:Jeff Britting
“There's all of the DVD extra material and all these other pieces of information that don't fit into a 90-minute experience, but it's still content and people still want to see it. It's being open to [the fact that] the business is changing and being open to how you can make money to afford you to stay in business to keep making new things. I think you just have to have an open mind and be really smart about stuff and not be so locked into the conventional way of how the process used to go.” PeopleThinkingWayWantMindStillsFactsUsedStuffProcessPiecesMinutesInformationMaterialsFitSmartMaking MoneyExtrasLockedNew ThingsConventionalOpen MindDvdsReally SmartConventional Ways Author:Alex Stapleton