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“I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan and that these accidents are really what we mean when we talk about poetry.”

Thinking Writing Kind Mean Happens Process Plans Poet Accidents Things Happen All Kinds Unexpected Unexpected Things

Author:John Ashbery

“Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you. Inspiration is for amateurs, the rest of us just show up and get to work. Every great idea I've ever had grew out of work itself. Sign onto a process and see where it takes you. You don't have to invent the wheel everyday. Today you will do what you did yesterday, tomorrow you will do what you did today. Eventually, you will get somewhere.”

Ideas Shows Inspiration Today Process Grew Tomorrow Capable Everyday Yesterday Wheels Great Idea Parameters

Author:Chuck Close

“Just because society has done things the same way for many years, that's no reason to continue doing them. Women will be the harbingers of retirement transformations going forward and will be more creative and humanistic in the process.”

Way Years Reason Done Process Creative Transformation No Reason Retirement Humanistic Harbinger

Author:Lee Johnson

“I have worked alone and with a cast and enjoy the process both ways. There is more back-and-forth with a full cast, and you can feed off the other actors' performance.”

Way Actors Process Enjoy Performances Casts Back And Forth

Author:Frank Welker

“Being in front of the camera, you never got to see the whole process from the conception of the script all the way through to the filming process.”

Way Whole Process Fronts Cameras Scripts Conception

Author:Justin Berfield

“I think it's the same to be an actress anywhere because the profession is about attitudes towards events -- it is a process to try to understand life. I think this is the case for actors across the world.”

Thinking World Trying Actors Process Attitude Cases Events Actresses Profession

Author:Zhou Xun

“Its such a process to get a show off the ground initially. And then, to already have a second season announced is a dream come true for any actor.”

Shows Dream Actors Process Seasons Dreams Come True Showing Off

Author:Nicky Whelan

“I'm an infant with Shakespeare; I'm kind of learning how to walk. I am trying to decipher the code, you know? I do my research. And I get a clear understanding of what the language is. It is a tremendous process I have to go through as I am sure all actors do, finding the gems hidden in his language.”

Knows Trying Kind Actors Language Process Understanding Walks Clear Findings Research Code Infant Gems Decipher

Author:Ruben Santiago-Hudson

“To me, one of the things I love about being an actor is that its never done; its never perfect, and so its the process. Its like practicing being okay with things not being perfect and things being outside of your control.”

Done Actors Process Perfect Okay Things I Love Not Being Perfect Being Okay

Author:Kerry Bishe

“I never wore a single fedora filming L.A. Noire. It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.”

Process Hours Half Hair Precise Fedoras

Author:Aaron Staton

“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.”

States Life Is Passion Process Becoming Combination Live With Passion Different Experiences Love And Passion Passion For Life Discovering Self Discovery In Life Finding Your Path Process Of Life Life And Passion

Author:Anais Nin

“The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city. It is, moreover, a common rather than an individual right since this transformation inevitably depends upon the exercise of a collective power to reshape the processes of urbanization. The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.”

Source: Social Justice and the City

“To concentrate is not to meditate, even though that is what most of you do, calling it meditation. And if concentration is not meditation, then what is? Surely, meditation is to understand every thought that comes into being, and not to dwell upon one particular thought; it is to invite all thoughts so that you understand the whole process of thinking.”

Ifs Thinking Whole Process Meditation Particular Calling Concentration Invites

Book:The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1956-1957, A light to yourself

Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1956-1957, A light to yourself

“The poet's perspective of life, the musician's sense of harmony, the artist's eye of proportion and relationships ~ these are all shared by healers, especially the herbal healer who works with plants, which are the pure creative expression of nature and the healing process.”

Eye Artist Process Healing Creative Poet Expression Perspective Pure Musician Harmony Plant Proportion Healer Creative Expression Healing Process

Author:Michael Tierra

“Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes.”

Writing Actors Process Teach

Author:Condola Rashad

“I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.”

Whole School Process College Enjoyed Autumn Always Happy

Author:Claire Tomalin

“Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.”

Care Process Consequence Female Details

Author:Yingluck Shinawatra

“Like all my poems, 'Negotiations' has several sources. It deals with aging lovers and the often silent deals they make. Thinking about bargains made me think of The Little Mermaid and that made me remember something I had just read about the incredibly complex process by which tadpoles (actual little mermaids) are somehow able to reabsorb their tails and fashion their future frog legs.”

Thinking Littles Made Able Remember Process Deals Fashion Source Lovers Aging Silent Complexes Legs Tails Negotiation Bargains Frogs Mermaid Remember Something Tadpoles

Author:Rae Armantrout

“A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding.”

Process Forget Return Pure Findings Wander Rebellious Begin Again Blessedness Invocation

Book:My Emily Dickinson

Source: My Emily Dickinson

“The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.”

Political Process Difficult Higher Definitions Helpful Rough Proven Grounded Higher Power Terrain

Author:Hakeem Jeffries

“The self is not a thing, but a process.”

Book:The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self

Source: The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self

“And so, at least symbolically, the blood of Eve courses through each one of her daughters' veins. We are each associated with life; each subject to the impossible expectations and cruel projections of men; each fallen, blamed, and misunderstood; and each stubbornly vital to the process of bringing something new--perhaps something better--into this world...We are each an Eve.”

Men World Courses Process Impossible Blood Subjects This World Expectations Daughter Fallen Something New Veins Misunderstood Projection Something Better

Book:A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master'

Source: A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master'

“Rather than passing a thousand pages of tax reform legislation and restarting the tax code manipulation process, we should change the paradigm. It is time to eliminate the IRS and repeal the 16th Amendment.”

Should Process Thousand Taxes Pages Passing Passings Reform Code Manipulation Amendments Legislation Paradigm Irs Tax Reform

Author:Jim Bridenstine

“Patience is a purifying process that refines understanding, deepens happiness, focuses action, and offers hope for peace.”

Action Process Understanding Offers Purifying

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“Healing of the physical without the change in the mental and spiritual aspects brings little real help to the individual in the end. How true, because the mind and the body imprint and imitate each other. What we think, we become. What we become, we think. It's an insidious process that can predispose us to illness or it can lead us to health.”

Thinking Mind Littles Real Ends Helping Body Spiritual Individual Process Healing Aspect Illness Insidious

Author:Edgar Cayce

“Learning is not a product of teaching . kids are born learning. They learn how to walk, how to talk. They're basically little scientists. If we don't stop that process, it will continue.”

Ifs Littles Kids Process Born Walks Teaching Products Scientist Teaching Kids

Author:Grace Llewellyn

“Write down your barrier thoughts, and then consider ways to reinterpret the situation. In the process, ask yourself questions like... What else could this situation or experience mean? Can anything good come from it? Does it present any opportunities for me? What lessons can I learn and apply to the future? Did I develop any strengths as a result?”

Way Writing Mean Doe Asks Opportunity Process Results Situation Lessons Barriers

Book:The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want

Source: The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want

“We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.”

Thinking Process Understanding Results Principles Produce Creatures Capable Accidents Expected Complexity Glorious Construction Unpredictable

Book:Full House

Source: Full House

“Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion.”

Process Evolution Constant Expansion

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.”

Process Results Knowing Judging Judgment Not Knowing

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of the mental process, we must still say that our highest thoughts and our best deeds are all given to us.”

Stills Inspiration Names Given Process Highest Agree Deeds Noble Impulse Analysis Rapids

Book:Adam Bede

Source: Adam Bede

“Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.”

Action Process Moral Morality Consequence Observation Reasoning

Book:A few days in Athens: being the translation of a Greek manuscript discovered in Herculaneum

Source: A few days in Athens: being the translation of a Greek manuscript discovered in Herculaneum

“The typhoon came out of the sea first as a deep hollow roar. ... I was surrounded by the madness, the unreason, of uncontrolled, undisciplined energy. None of this made any sense. It was worse than useless - it was nature destroying its own creation - its own self. To create by the long process of growth and then to destroy by a fit of wild emotion - was this not madness, was this not unreason?”

Firsts Long Made Self Energy Process Growth Emotion Sea Creation Fit Madness Weather Useless Destroying Hollow Undisciplined Typhoons

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.”

Men Has Beens Process Known Comfortable Hundred Fats Rogues

Book:Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies

Source: Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies

“All the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution.”

Persons Has Beens Art Process Ready Evolution Prepared Analysis Psychiatry

Author:Anais Nin

“Faith is primarily a process of identification; the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal.”

Individual Process Eternal Cease Identification

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.”

Christian Grows Process Christ Christianity Conversion Christian Living Daily Motivation Instantaneous Christ Like

Author:Billy Graham

“Education is a process that goes on 'til death. The moment you see someone who knows she has found the one true way, and can call all the others false, then you know you're in the company of an ignoramus.”

Knows Way Moments Found Process Education Company Goes On Found The One

Author:Maya Angelou

“I'm widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I'm not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.”

People Writing I Can Process Edges Awake Not Sure Engaged Something New Bungee

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“I think writing is a process that starts long before the writers are actually writers and probably goes on long afterward. It's rather like the way the Arabs weave rugs. They don't stop. They just cut them off at a certain spot on the loom. There is no particular beginning or end.”

Thinking Way Writing Long Ends Certain Process Cutting Particular Goes On Spots

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“The most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered - a process of tragic waste and terrible silences that will continue until women's stories are a full and equal part of the human story.”

Humans Stories Lost Process Common Silence History Terrible Equal Waste Characteristics Tragic

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Intuition is a combination of insight and imagination that was once attributed to spiritual communication. Mathematicians call it 'fuzzy logic,' drawing conclusions from vague or subjective input. The mind becomes aware without the direct intervention of reasoning. Once you can imagine something you can begin the process of creating it. Executives use intuition to make many product, investment, and hiring decisions, even if they deny it. Success in business may depend on an accurate gut.”

Source: Thinking In The Future Tense

“Learning how to respond to and master the process of change - and even to excel at it - is a critical leadership skill for the twenty-first century. Constant, rapid change will be a fact of life for all of us.”

Firsts Facts Process Change Century Masters Skills Twenties Constant Critical Rapids Facts Of Life Leadership Skills Process Of Change Rapid Change

Book:Thinking In The Future Tense

Source: Thinking In The Future Tense

“This is what art is all about. It is weaving fabric from the feathers you have plucked from your own breast. But no one must ever see the process - only the finished bolt of goods. They must never suspect that that crimson thread running through the pattern is blood.”

Art Running Process Blood Art Is Patterns Finished Breasts Goods Suspects Thread Fabric Feathers Artistry Bolts Weaving Crimson

Author:Katherine Paterson

“I do not believe that the deeper problems of living can ever be answered by the process of thought. I believe that life itself teaches us either patience with regard to them, or reveals to us possible solutions when our hearts are pressed close against duties and sorrows and experiences of all kinds.”

Believe Heart Kind Problem I Believe Process Teach Duty Sorrow Solutions Regard Deeper All Kinds

Book:My Study Fire: First Series

Source: My Study Fire: First Series

“Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study; a constant process of honing. Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.”

Hard Individual Force Process Work Study Successful Cutting Talent Hard Work Tables Constant Dull Knives Salt Commodity Cheaper Honing

Book:Danse Macabre

Source: Danse Macabre

“The process could be likened to relaxing on a riverbank and watching a fish leap out of the water, sparkle for a moment in the sunlight, then dive back in a graceful arc. There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.”

Needs Should Trying Mind Moments Process Water Meditation Sight Fishes Dialogue Merit Leap Sunlight Arcs Sparkle

Author:Bill Vaughan

“The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.”

Real Happens Process Decision Opinion Support Meetings Developing Gathering Making Decisions

Author:Bill Vaughan

“the process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind.”

Mind Book Reading Process Reader Formulas Reciprocal Mind Reading

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself.”

Book Reading Process Sleep Half Struggle Reader Exercise Highest Assumption

Book:Two rivulets, including Democratic vistas, Centennial songs, and Passage to India [and As a strong bird on pinions free, and Memoranda during the war. Author's ed

Source: Two rivulets, including Democratic vistas, Centennial songs, and Passage to India [and As a strong bird on pinions free, and Memoranda during the war. Author's ed