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“Of course, from time to time, I want to do everything myself and be more involved on my own with the creative process. But I don't mind the collaboration at all.”

Want Mind Courses Process My Own Creative Involved Collaboration Creative Process

Author:Michel Gondry

“When I am in the process of conceiving a story, I make sure it can be told with words and pictures. The story has to be creative, original and interesting in both areas. Many stories get rejected because they feel derivative.”

Feels Stories Process Interesting Creative Areas Originals Rejected Be Creative Derivatives Conceiving

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“The process of making films is so technically demanding that it's a distraction. You don't spend your time thinking about the philosophical content, which is often very depressing.”

Thinking Film Process Philosophical Distraction Depressing Very Depressing

Author:Woody Allen

“You have to trust your instincts and know that the right question or the right answer will come to you. You don’t always have to have the solution to the problem; sometimes it’s very interesting to watch somebody go through the process of solving the problem, but it’s got to be truthful.”

Knows Sometimes Problem Process Answers Interesting Watches Solutions Instinct Truthful Very Interesting Being Truthful Right Answers Right Questions Trust Your Instincts

Author:Cat Deeley

“Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work.”

Sometimes Fun Process Term Quality Particular Type Personality Amount Directors Our Family Composer Quality Of Life

Author:Christophe Beck

“Careers are built on relationships. Even if it's a bad movie, even if I know it's a bad movie, even if it's a team of filmmakers that I know are going to be difficult, that I know are going to really make me work extra hard, it's fundamentally the same process.”

Ifs Knows Hard Process Difficult Careers Team Built Filmmaker Extras Bad Movies

Author:Christophe Beck

“I try to see what the dream might be referring to - because the information in the world is being interpreted by my brain which only has the concepts derived from our five senses. So I think of the sequences in my dream as my brain doing its very best to process information in a way it knows I can deal with.”

Thinking Knows World Way Trying I Can Dream Might Process Deals Brain Five Information Concepts Senses Sequence Referring Five Senses

Author:Amy Hardie

“People look at my competitive spirit, and they automatically attach it to the thing that's most similar, most easily recognizable, which is Michael [Jordan's] competitive spirit. I'm different. I enjoy building. I enjoy the process of putting the puzzle together, and then the byproduct of that, the consequence of that, is beating somebody. That becomes the cherry on top, the icing on the cake.”

People Looks Different Together Spirit Process Enjoy Building Consequence Cake Puzzles Jordan Cherries Icing Icing On The Cake Competitive Spirit

Author:Kobe Bryant

“The thing that's most enjoyable to me is not actually beating someone [in the game]. It's the process of coming up with the blueprint of beating that I enjoy. That's a huge flip, so for me I enjoy building. I enjoy coming up.”

Games Process Enjoy Building Huge Enjoyable Flip Blueprints

Author:Kobe Bryant

“I think the growth of the brain is a slow process. But you do change and the more you accept change and embrace change, the better.”

Thinking Process Growth Brain Accepting Embrace Accepting Change Embrace Change

Author:Diane Keaton

“I don't think there can ever be too many messages about AIDS. If you stop the education process, then people are going to think the problem is all over and done with. They'll think that it's OK to go and have sex again. Education is essential, especially among young people.”

People Ifs Thinking Done Problem Young Sex Process Essentials Messages Aids

Author:Elton John

“The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.”

Writing Moments Felt Process Band Exciting Writing Process

Author:Ethan Hawke

“I'm so used to being separate from the publication process. I turn in the book to the editor and then I'm done.”

Book Done Used Turns Process Editors Publication

Author:Hilary Liftin

“I've also learned to only write songs and melodies that really work for my voice and that I won't have issues doing live. Because you can get really, really comfortable in the comping process: out of five takes, maybe one of those high notes that you struggled to do, nailed it, and then live you're having that challenge of really having to recreate that.”

Writing Song Process Voice Challenges Issues Five Comfortable Notes Melody Get Real High Notes

Author:Solange Knowles

“Drug culture is extremely prevalent and probably most people know somebody whose life has been affected by drugs, if it's not their own or in their own family, they have friends. It's a never-ending process.”

People Ifs Knows Has Beens Culture Process Drug Affected Never Ending Drug Culture

Author:Macklemore

“You can be extremely bright and still have dyslexia. You just have to understand how you learn and how you process information. When you know that, you can overcome a lot of the obstacles that come with dyslexia. When you figure out how you learn, you can accomplish whatever you want.”

Knows Want Stills Process Figures Information Overcoming Obstacles Accomplish Dyslexia

Author:Tim Tebow

“I don't know if I'll ever be a master at anything, but I think that's a mistake for me personally. I don't know how much it's about the journey, but it's more about the process.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Process Mistake Know How Journey Masters

Author:Demetri Martin

“Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.”

Process Meditation Acceptance Demand Analysis

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“I believe that anyone who wants to wear a thong should have to go through an application process.”

Want Should Believe I Believe Process Should Have Application Thongs

Author:Bill Engvall

“Whenever you have a proclamation of being chosen, it's always a self-defining process. It's always the people who are chosen who say they are chosen. They never say that about the other. If you're going to say, "I'm chosen," it loads you with a very heavy burden.”

People Ifs Self Process Burden Heavy Chosen Load Defining Proclamation Heavy Burdens

Author:Anne Provoost

“There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.”

Firsts Inspiration Three Process Creative Release Creative Process Execution

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“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.”

Source: Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings

“The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it.”

World Two Process Natural Motive Natural World

Book:The Two Cultures

Source: The Two Cultures

“All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.”

Process Dark Seeds Surrender Instant Cracks Buried

Book:The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)

Source: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)

“It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in our society is tyrannical nurturance.”

Self Evil Process Conscious Our Society Consuming Self Conscious Time Consuming Childbearing

Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“Most people focus on the wrong thing; They focus on the result, not the process. The process is the sacrifice; it's all the hard parts - the sweat, the pain, the tears, the losses. You make the sacrifices anyway. You learn to enjoy them, or at least embrace them. In the end, it is the sacrifices that must fulfill you.”

People Ends Hard Pain Process Enjoy Loss Results Focus Sacrifice Tears Embrace Sweat Wrong Things

Book:My Fight / Your Fight

Source: My Fight / Your Fight

“Greenlight is a bad example of an election process. We came to the conclusion pretty quickly that we could just do away with Greenlight completely, because it was a bottleneck rather than a way for people to communicate choice.”

People Way Choices Process Example Election Communicate Conclusion Bottlenecks Election Process

Author:Gabe Newell

“It seems that everything is part of the maturing process”

Seems Process Mature

Author:Onew

“Today we have a weakness in our education process in failing to understand the natural associations between the disciplines. We tend to study all our disciplines in unrelated parallel lines. This tends to be true in both Christian and secular education. This is one of the reasons why evangelical Christians have been taken by surprise at the tremendous shift that has come in our generation.”

Source: Escape from Reason

“Lent is a time to renew wherever we are in that process that I call the divine therapy. It's a time to look what our instinctual needs are, look at what the dynamics of our unconscious are.”

Needs Looks Process Divine Therapy Unconscious Dynamics

Author:Thomas Keating

“When Enron collapsed, through court processes, thousands and thousands of emails came out that were internal, and it provided a window into how the whole company was managed. It was all the little decisions that supported the flagrant violations.”

Littles Whole Process Decision Company Window Court Internals Email Violation Enron

Author:Julian Assange

“In organizations (or even in a society) where culture is weak, you need an abundance of heavy, precise rules and processes.”

Needs Culture Process Weak Organization Heavy Abundance Precise

Author:Brian Chesky

“The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move.”

Ifs Character Film Moving Process Audience Involved Concentration

Author:Conrad Hall

“Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.”

Ifs Lying Process Sin Forget Deceiving Omission

Book:Girl Talk

Source: Girl Talk

“The process of grief has a beginning a middle and an end. The hard part is holding on in the middle. You can hold on. There's transformation happening in these times bringing you to a new place. It's a place you can only get to through the pain.”

Ends Hard Pain Process Grief Middle Happenings Transformation Holding On New Places

Author:Mary Gauthier

“When a company creates a product that directly or indirectly adversely impacts the health of people, that product must be regulated. The process by which its created must be regulated. No company has the right to injure people. No company.”

People Process Company Products Impact

Author:Kenneth C. Griffin

“When companies fail, or fail to grow, it's almost always because they don't invest in the people, the systems, and the processes they need.”

People Needs Grows Process Company Failing

Book:Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time

Source: Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time

“If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world”

Ifs World Should Process Understanding Reasoning Logical Probability Arithmetic

Book:Endless horizons

Source: Endless horizons

“When I started 'DailyGrace,' I was dating a 26-year-old guy I thought was the funniest person in the world. My creation process every day was imagining him watching my videos and wondering, 'Will he laugh at this?' But somehow that's turned into an audience that's mostly 15-year-old girls.”

World Years Persons Guy Girl Process Wonder Audience Laughing Creation Dating Video Old Guys

Author:Grace Helbig

“During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible.”

Should Long Problem Hands Used Process Natural Refinement

Author:Niklaus Wirth

“We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image.”

World Certain Process

Book:Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews

Source: Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews

“It's come around to that point of view at the end of a long evolutionary process, in which the rule of law has slowly been replaced by giant idiosyncratic bureaucracies that are designed to criminalize failure, poverty, and weakness on the one hand, and to immunize strength, wealth, and success on the other.”

Long Ends Hands Law Process Wealth Views Poverty Weakness Point Of View Giants Replaced Bureaucracy Rule Of Law Wealth And Success

Book:The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

Source: The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

“For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it.”

People Way Bigs Process Healthy Adults Big Things Ageing Slowing Intervening

Author:Nick Bostrom

“Marketing automation is the technology that propels your business into a new era of relationship based marketing with quantifiable results. When powerful technology meets effective implementation and internal process management, your company will soon find itself on a journey that leads to new heights of business success.”

Process Results Powerful Company Technology Journey Management Marketing Eras Height Internals Business Success Implementation New Era Automation

Author:Jon Miller

“I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.”

Process Silence Design Precise Listening To Music

Author:Francisco Costa

“Cooking a fantastic meal is therapeutic. I like the entire process-the chopping, the stirring. At the end, hopefully you get to enjoy a great meal with a friend or loved one.”

Ends Process Enjoy Cooking Hopefully Fantastic Meals Loved Ones Stirring Therapeutic Chopping

Author:Natalie Coughlin

“There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays an active role in determining the process of solution.”

Way Play Helping Problem Process Roles Solutions Active Perceive Engaged Learners

Book:Teaching As a Subversive Activity: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Outdated Teaching Methods-with Dramatic and Practical Proposals on How Education Can Be Made Relevant to Today's World

Source: Teaching As a Subversive Activity: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Outdated Teaching Methods-with Dramatic and Practical Proposals on How Education Can Be Made Relevant to Today's World

“I think when you start talking about money, it stops the whole creative process for me.”

Thinking Whole Process Talking Creative Creative Process Talking About Money

Author:Nicola Formichetti

“My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.”

Writing Process Avoiding Writing Process Procrastinating

Book:Where the God of Love Hangs Out: Fiction

Source: Where the God of Love Hangs Out: Fiction

“When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.”

Knows Pain Process Deals Brain Compassion Evolution Evidence Species Speed Faster Seconds Physical Pain Mental Pain

Author:Antonio Damasio