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“I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military.”

Firsts Important Process Interesting Study Military Reform Exposed

Author:Robert Jay Lifton

“That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years.”

Years Process One Thing Goes On Commitment Frustrating

Author:Thomas Lennon

“Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.”

Humans Important Process Position Reactions Dependent Chemicals Accumulation Human Society

Author:Yuan T. Lee

“The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.”

Together Process Enjoy Pieces Make Sense Editing

Author:Christian Marclay

“Every time I do a play, it's as if I've never done one before. I'm always confused. I always am convinced I'm going to be fired. I'm like, 'I don't remember how to act. I don't know how to do this.' And, it's just a very slow process, and then, all of a sudden, it's just there one day. I still don't understand how it happens.”

Ifs Knows Stills Done Play Happens Remember Process Know How One Day Convinced Confused

Author:Cristin Milioti

“I love disagreements. I love the democratic process. If I'm in a room where everybody agrees, I start to nod off.”

Ifs Process Rooms Agree Democratic Disagreement Democratic Process

Author:Gina McCarthy

“There are dozens of unfinished or aborted projects in my files, but I can only assume they don't get done because they're not robust enough to struggle through the birth process.”

I Can Done Enough Process Struggle Birth Projects Assuming Dozen Files Unfinished Robust

Author:Grant Morrison

“But there is a process that happens when you're making something, be it a musical or a new play. That process takes time, and mistakes will be made along the way, and you will go down and hit dead ends. But it is so public now. Any yahoo with a computer can start a firestorm.”

Way Made Ends Play Happens Process Mistake Computer Down And Musical Take Time Dead Ends

Author:Joe Mantello

“I know there are different kinds of actors, but I tend to have less effective relationships with actors who have a very private process - who really need to do lots of internal work, so that I become merely a witness until they're ready to share.”

Knows Needs Kind Different Actors Process Share Ready Witness Internals Different Kinds

Author:Joe Mantello

“Rebuilding a network is a slow, brick-by-brick process. It's not just creating a hit show - it's building shows to back up that hit show; it's creating an identity of success so that people want their shows on your network.”

People Want Shows Process Identity Building Creating Bricks Rebuilding

Author:Leslie Moonves

“You need to know what makes artists tick. Having been through the process myself as a musician, since I was an early teen, gave me an advantage - understanding them from their point of view, because it's about them, it's not about you - it's their vision and what they're capable of achieving, and you're the conduit.”

Knows Needs Artist Process Understanding Views Vision Achieve Musician Capable Advantage Point Of View Tick

Author:Tommy Mottola

“Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.”

Problem Process Position Drug Productions Colombia

Author:Barry McCaffrey

“Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.”

Actors Process Involved Directors Accustomed Get Involved Request

Author:Catherine McCormack

“Journalism is a Darwinian process.”

Process Journalism

Author:Denise Mina

“There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.”

Real Political Social Process Class Working Class Differentiation

Book:Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

“Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.”

Certain Process Evolution Selection Variation

Book:Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist

Source: Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist

“Life is simply the reification of the process of living.”

Life Is Process Society

Author:Ernst Mayr

“One of the things I've learned by working on the 'Walking Dead' and other TV shows is to be more tolerant of other people's process.”

People Shows Process Tvs Walking I've Learned Tv Shows Things I've Learned Walking Dead

Author:Glen Mazzara

“Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.”

Way Wells Process Creative Computer Ears Creative Process Smarter Entwined

Author:St. Vincent

“There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.”

Writing Process Destructive Writing Process

Author:Joy Williams

“I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deeply in love with my father, and he died when I was nine. She remarried, and her second husband died, too. I saw the grieving process she went through. My mother had this way of moving on. It was a fine trait.”

Way Should Trying Believe Moving Mother Father Process Saws Regret Fine Husband Died Don't Believe Nine Grieving Traits Mum Deeply In Love Grieving Process

Author:Robert Winston

“I do feel that federation, loose parallel processes, are less than we've got, less than we could have and, in the very long run, less than what God wants in the Church.”

Want Feels Long Running Process Church Long Runs Parallels Federation

Author:Rowan Williams

“Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks.”

Way Writing Two Book Together Process Mark Gaps Without You Two Ways

Author:Samuel West

“The designer must understand that form does not follow function nor does form follow a production process. For every use and for every production process there are innumerable equally attractive solutions.”

Doe Use Form Process Solutions Function Productions Attractive Designer

Author:Eva Zeisel

“I know more now than I did in the past about the process of democratization. I know more about the pitfalls.”

Knows Past Process Pitfalls Democratization

Author:Meles Zenawi

“In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be to adjust the images. And it'll be to change the color of an actor's tie or change the little smirky thing he's doing with his mouth. Or you can put in more clouds or move the tree a little bit.”

Years Littles Film Moving Next Actors Bits Process Tree Color Couple Little Bit Mouths Clouds Ties

Author:Robert Zemeckis

“I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it feels like it's going badly or that I'm lost, I know I'll eventually find my way because I've been through it before. But writing itself is still hard.”

Knows Way Feels Writing Littles Stills Hard Lost Bits Process Example Little Bit My Way Familiarity

Author:Sara Zarr

“My books have been translated into various languages and sold in other countries, but I never have any contact with the foreign publishers and am so disconnected from that process that it seems almost imaginary. With 'How to Save a Life', I worked closely with Usborne editors and have been involved in the publicity.”

Has Beens Book Country Seems Language Process Involved Various Contact Editors Imaginary Other Countries Publishers Publicity Disconnected Save A Life

Author:Sara Zarr

“One reason that a truth and reconciliation process is needed for group selection is to return to the simplicity of the original problem and Darwin’s solution. As Ed Wilson and I put it in our recent review article titled “Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Sociobiology“: Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.”

“You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way. But the slanting process is so subtle that you frequently don't realize how you're being slanted until very late in the game.”

Way Games Process Realizing Born Class Taught Late Subtle

Book:Lena

Source: Lena

“There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.”

People Believe Young Process Healing Losing Don't Believe Get Over Healing Process Losing Friends

Author:Chris Cornell

“I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much.”

Age Process Creative Creative Process

Author:Chris Cornell

“The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I'm not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.”

Process Results Brain Study Mystery Subjects Jokes Remains Scholarly

Book:Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets

Source: Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets

“There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown designed, with a bit of luck, to produce something worthwhile at the end.”

Writing Believe Ends Bits Process Fiction Pieces Produce Argument Luck Nervous Controlled Worthwhile Breakdown Nervous Breakdown

Book:Writing: A User Manual: A practical guide to planning, starting and finishing a novel

Source: Writing: A User Manual: A practical guide to planning, starting and finishing a novel

“Marketers have to move upstream now. We have to stop being the last step in the process and start being the first step.”

Firsts Lasts Moving Process Steps First Steps Marketers

Author:Seth Godin

“The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested.”

Play Political Individual Process Roles Internet Active Campaigns Empowering

Author:Al Gore

“Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.”

People Law Social Process Moral Return Morality Negative Input Diminishing Returns

Book:Knowledge And Decisions

Source: Knowledge And Decisions

“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.”

Matter Courses Process Chance Attention Outcomes

Author:Michael Mauboussin

“Strategic planning is the continuous process of making present entrepreneurial (risk-taking) decisions systematically and with the greatest knowledge of their futurity; organizing systematically the efforts needed to carry out these decisions; and measuring the results of these decisions against the expectations through organized, systematic feedback.”

Process Decision Results Effort Risk Needed Expectations Planning Organized Feedback Strategic Entrepreneurial Systematic Measuring Risk-taking Strategic Planning

Book:Management

Source: Management

“The interaction between math and physics is a two-way process, with each of the two subjects drawing from and inspiring the other. At different times, one of them may take the lead in developing a particular idea, only to yield to the other subject as focus shifts. But altogether, the two interact in a virtuous circle of mutual influence.”

Way May Two Ideas Different Process Focus Influence Subjects Particular Math Drawing Physics Circles Developing Mutual Yield Interaction Virtuous Two Ways Different Times Lead In

Author:Edward Frenkel

“There is no government in Europe where ministers go through that kind of confirmation process, which in fact is modeled on the way the U.S. cabinet members are confirmed.”

Way Kind Facts Government Process Members Europe Ministers Cabinets Confirmation

Author:Mario Monti

“The ideal technique for successful fasting is the use of fresh, raw fruit and vegetable juices. On such a diet, the full spectrum of nutrients is supplied in an easily assimilated form, so the digestive tract is able to remain essentially at rest. It is only through the combined use of both cleansing processes, and a very good diet, that one will be able to reach her or his maximal level of physical health and an unclouded consciousness.”

“When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time.”

Thinking Past Remember Process Forget Fool Reverse Sage

Author:George Boas

“Success is assured when a person fears the pain of regret more than the pain of the process.”

Persons Pain Process Regret Assured

Author:Orrin Woodward

“You can't really protect women or men from their choices, so let them have their own lives and trust the process. Given the history of society's efforts to control women's sexuality and reproduction, this remained a revolutionary idea. No wonder it disturbed and frightened some people so deeply.”

People Men Ideas Choices Given Process Effort Wonder Protect Sexuality Revolutionary Frightened Disturbed Reproduction Revolutionary Ideas Protect Women

Author:Stephen Singular

“Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.”

Firsts Helping Process Struggle Worst Cold Let Me Hot Drinking Warm Alcohol Weather Things To Do Worst Things Soup Drinking Alcohol Cold Heart Cold Weather Hot Soup

Author:Morgan Freeman

“I'm known for being very enthusiastic about using technology. A lot of the attraction is the way that it streamlines the process and takes a lot of the drudgery out of it.”

Way Process Known Technology Attraction Enthusiastic Drudgery

Author:Dave Gibbons

“Precision is, after all, not only a form of responsibility and a kind of pleasure, but an instrument of compassion. To be precise requires care, time, and attention to the person, place, or process being described.”

Kind Persons Care Form Process Pleasure Attention Responsibility Compassion Instruments Precise Precision

Book:Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies

Source: Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies

“Testing a product is a learning process”

Process Products Testing Learning Process

Author:Brian Marick

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