Best process & ifs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Hopefully, if I have done my job right, people will want to know and see more! There is certainly plenty more to tell. I would love to be part of that process of expanding on the lore that makes up Warcraft, but it will all depend on what you, the audience, think of our first film!”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Want Firsts Done Jobs Film Process Audience Depends Plenty Hopefully Expanding

Author:Duncan Jones

“When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.”

Ifs Way Writing Past Process Pay Commitment Consequence Paid Prepared Interfere Writing Process Living My Life I Live My Life

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Looks Art Film Process Watches Elements Shots Musical Rhythm Great Film Edited

Author:Frank Ocean

“But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making the best decisions you can on behalf of your people. It’s a slow process. It often feels hopeless, more like an affliction than an art form. Most of us will have to find our readers one by one, in other words, and against considerable resistance. If anything qualifies us as heroic, it’s that private perpetual struggle. Put down the magazine, soldier. Forget about the other guy. Remember who you are.”

“If I can have the opportunity to go into an editing room, it's like the golden ticket for me. All I want is to learn about everything else in the filmmaking process. I just directed a music video which just came out and that'd sort of be the area of the field that I'm going to move into, I hope.”

Ifs Want I Can Moving Actors Opportunity Process Rooms Fields Areas Video Golden Movie Filmmaking Tickets Editing

Author:Nikki Reed

“Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water."”

“The process of making music is more interesting to me than the end result. If I was a cook, I'd be more interested in cooking food than eating food.”

Ifs Ends Process Interesting Results Eating Music Is Cooking Cooks End Results Eating Food

Author:Ryan Adams

“This leads to a question - if a great many people are for a certain project, is it necessarily right? If the vast majority is for it, is it even more certainly right? This, to be sure, is one of the tricky points of democracy. The minority often turns out to be right, and though one believes in the efficacy of the democratic process, one has also to recognize that the demand of the many for a particular project at a particular time may mean only disaster.”

People Ifs Believe May Mean Certain Turns Process Democracy Particular Demand Projects Majority Democratic Disaster Great Men Minorities Tricky Efficacy Democratic Process

Book:The Roosevelt I Knew

Source: The Roosevelt I Knew

“If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.”

People Ifs Inspirational Trying Self Process Buddhism Concepts Discovery Aids Self Discovery Contradictory

Author:Frederick Lenz

“At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like demons, suffer greatly, and are also happy, in unmistakable ways, some of the time. If we had no knowledge of happiness, our novels wouldn't sufficiently resemble real life. Some of us are even made a little bit happy, on occasion, by the writing process itself. I mean, really, if there wasn't some sort of enjoyment to be derived, would any of us keep doing it?”

Ifs Way Writing Mean Littles Made Real Suffering Bits Process Novel Risk Little Bit Real Life Occasions Enjoyment Demon Peers Venture Writing Process

Author:Michael Cunningham

“If we don't forgive ourselves for our mistakes, and others for the wounds they have inflicted upon us, we end up crippled with guilt. And the soul cannot grow under a blanket of guilt, because guilt is isolating, while growth is a gradual process of reconnection to ourselves, to other people, and to a larger whole.”

People Ifs Soul Ends Whole Grows Process Growth Mistake Forgiving Guilt Wounds Blanket Crippled

Author:Joan Z. Borysenko

“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

“It's the form it takes when it comes out the other side, of course, that gives a story something unique--its life. The story, in the way it has arrived at what it is on the page, has been something learned, by dint of the story's challenge and the work that rises to meet it--a process as uncharted for the writer as if it had never been attempted before.”

Ifs Way Giving Has Beens Stories Form Courses Process Sides Challenges Pages Unique Uncharted

Book:Stories, Essays, and Memoir

Source: Stories, Essays, and Memoir

“My success has been something I've worked a long time at and it's been a gradual process. I compare it to the idea of someone losing a lot of weight over a period of a few years. You don't really notice the weight loss overall but if you compare photos from then and now there's a big difference.”

Ifs Years Long Has Beens Ideas Bigs Process Differences Loss Periods Long Time Losing Weight Compare Weight Loss

Author:Ray William Johnson

“My brain . . . it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I sit there and have to face myself and tell myself, 'You're a failure' . . . I think that's almost worse than death.”

Ifs Thinking Faces Process Brain

Author:Kobe Bryant

“Some writing is a really nice solitary process, in a way, because you can be a little self-conscious around other people. If it's just you, and you're at your favorite piano, or whatever instrument, and you feel comfortable, then somehow, I always feel like it's opening a door and letting whatever is to pass through pass.”

People Ifs Way Feels Writing Littles Self Process Nice Doors Comfortable Conscious Instruments Opening Piano Solitary Self Conscious Really Nice Your Favorite

Author:Marketa Irglova

“If you accept that security is a process, and if you can eliminate the human interaction or intervention in that process by automating more, that is a good thing.”

Ifs Humans Process Accepting Security Good Things Interaction Intervention

Author:John W. Thompson

“Our schools offer no conception of the scientific process of discovery. They do not encourage creative thought, in fact, they stifle it through too much rigidity in teaching. If we set out to give as little help as possible to originality in science, we could hardly devise a better plan than our education system. Youngsters ought to be told what is unknown about ourselves and our universe as well as what is known.”

“Every day, IRS agents levy liens on homes, bank accounts, and businesses; they confiscate cars, furniture, boats, and other personal property without the constitutional protections of due notice, hearing, and due process. If a person forcibly resists, government agents kill him for resisting arrest.”

Ifs Persons Home Government Process Car Accounts Property Hearing Protection Dues Libertarian Boat Agents Furniture Resisting Irs Bank Accounts Due Process

Author:Jacob G. Hornberger

“It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there's a window, you must imagine your body falling out the window. If there's a knife, you must imagine the knife piercing your skin. If there's a train coming, you must imagine your torso flattened under its wheels. These exercises are necessary to achieving the proper distance.”

“Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to satisfy them. But the case cannot stand if it is the process of satisfying wants that create the wants.”

Ifs Want Made Stills Process Cases Consumers Satisfying Consumerism Bizarre Immoral Admirable Overconsumption Frivolous

Book:The Essential Galbraith

Source: The Essential Galbraith

“I think that is the fight that we have to wage if we're to save the middle class. And I do have doubts about whether Hillary Clinton or whether any Republican candidate out there is prepared to take on the big money interests who control so much of our economy and as a result of Citizens United, our political process as well.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Bigs Political Fighting Process Interest United Results Class Economy Doubt Middle Citizens Republican Prepared Clinton Candidates Middle Class Citizens United

Author:Lindsey Graham

“If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness.”

Ifs Giving Soul Process Failing Appreciate Western Linear Cleverness Disconnected Fragmented Egocentric Thought Process

Author:Joel Salatin

“If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.”

Ifs Ends Process Confined

Book:Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

“If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.”

Ifs World Littles Art Process Imagination Forget Blame Works Of Art Anticipation Selection Anticipate Simplification

Book:The Art of Travel

Source: The Art of Travel

“There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life; it's a continuity thing. You can't have a great moment because it's spiritual. It's a belief; it's a calling. If you're an artist, doing your own thing on your own, it's while you're doing it that counts. It's a process. If you get too elated, you can get too depressed.”

Ifs Art Moments Spiritual Artist Spirituality Belief Process Calling Continuity Great Moments Doing Your Own Thing

Author:LeRoy Neiman

“It doesn't matter how good the card is if the issuance process is flawed.”

Ifs Matter Process Cards Flaws Flawed

Author:Bruce Schneier

“Our nation needs the BRAC process. No institution can remain successful if it does not adapt to its constantly changing environment. Our armed forces must adapt to changing global threats, evolving technology and new strategies and structures.”

Ifs Needs Doe Force Nations Process Technology Successful Environment Institutions Strategy Structure Threat Evolve Adaptability Armed Forces Changing Environment

Author:Anthony Principi

“If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work... you'll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to make new life and feel good in the process.”

Ifs Want Feels Process Creative Feel Good Impulse Code New Life Creative Work

Book:The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

Source: The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

“To succeed in life one must have determination and must be prepared to suffer during the process. If one isn't prepared to suffer during adversities, I don't really see how he can be successful.”

Ifs Suffering Process Successful Succeed Determination Adversity Prepared Being Successful Be Prepared

Author:Gary Player

“I've treated the waistcoat as if it were a corset, so that it becomes the first layer in the process of putting clothes on the body. There is constant motion between layering and revealing.”

Ifs Firsts Body Process Clothes Constant Treated Layers Revealing Corsets

Author:John Galliano

“I believe that prayer in public schools should be voluntary. It is difficult for me to see how religious exercises can be a requirement in public schools, given our Constitutional requirement of separation of church and state. I feel that the highly desirable goal of religious education must be principally the responsibility of church and home. I do not believe that public education should show any hostility toward religion, and neither should it inhibit voluntary participation, if it does not interfere with the educational process.”

Source: The Presidential Campaign 1976: President Gerald R. Ford. 2. v

“To live is a constant process of relating, so come on out of that shell of isolation and conclusion, and relate DIRECTLY to what is being said. Bear in mind I seek neither your approval nor to influence you. So do not make up your mind as to "this is this" or "that is that." I will be more than satisfied if you begin to learn to investigate everything yourself from now on.”

Ifs Mind Said Motivational Process Influence Bears Constant Satisfied Conclusion Relate Isolation Approval Shells Make Up Your Mind

Book:Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“Individually we can work on ourselves. By working on your own ego and developing truth, control, and an equitable inner dialogue, you individualize the spirit within you through the process of observation. If you work on yourself, the progress you make radiates invisibly to others, helping them and giving them courage, which also improves the global picture. After all-your ego is a part of the world ego, and as you control it, you lessen the overall influence of the world ego while expanding the presence of truth on our planet.”

Ifs World Inspirational Giving Helping Spirit Process Progress Influence Planets Ego Dialogue Observation Developing Within You Expanding Our Planet Equitable

Book:More Love: Tender Moments

Source: More Love: Tender Moments

“If you understand your character and feel like it's a collaborative process, you're more inclined to dive into the deep end and fight for your character and feel passionate about your character, and that passion comes across on screen.”

Ifs Feels Ends Character Fighting Passion Process Passionate Screens

Author:Katheryn Winnick

“Just work. Don't wait. Everybody's waiting until they have the perfect idea to start working. Even if you have an inkling of what you want to do, start moving towards it. And it's going to flesh itself out through the process of moving towards the goal. And by the time you get to where you're going to be, it's not going to look anything like it did when you sat on the couch thinking about it. And if you wait until it's perfect in your head before you get of the couch and start working on it, that's never going to happen.”

Ifs Thinking Want Looks Ideas Happens Moving Waiting Process Goal Perfect What You Want Flesh Sat Couches

Author:Brandon Stanton

“If you follow the process of a thought - any thought, not just about art - the thought changes. It has to do with what you can hold in your memory and what you lose. That's an interesting thing to try to paint.”

Ifs Trying Art Process Loses Memories Interesting Paint Interesting Things Our Memories

Author:Ross Bleckner

“If a betting game among a certain number of participants I played long enough, eventually one player will have all the money. If there is any skill involved, it will accelerate the process of concentrating all the stakes in a few hands. Something like this happens in the market. There is a persistent overall tendency for equity to flow from the many to the few. In the long run, the majority loses. The implication for the trader is that to win you have to act like the minority. If you bring normal human habits and tendencies to trading, you'll gravitate toward the majority and inevitably lose.”

“The more I drive myself into the depth of my inside, the more things come up to my vision, visibly or invisibly... I even do not know if I am seeing them with my eye or with my mind. I just need to copy them on my canvases. But this mental process is always overwhelming. I often have hard time to deal with my emotion on this state. You could call this depression on surface? But actually, so many 're-birth' and 'reform' are going on on my thoughts, inspiration, philosophy...etc in the underwater. I believe this struggle make my art real. My art always comes from my emotion.”

“I believe that the major operating ethic in American society right now, the most universal want and need is to be on TV. I've been on TV. I could be on TV all the time if I wanted to. But most people will never get on TV. It has to be a real breakthrough for them. And trouble is, people will do almost anything to get on it. You know, confess to crimes they haven't committed. You don't exist unless you're on TV. Yeah, it's a validation process.”

Source: Ancient Gonzo Wisdom

“I've long believed alas, that in highly organized industrial societies, capitalist or socialist, the stronger tendency is to converge - that if steel or automobiles are wanted and must be made on a large scale, the process will stamp its imprint on the society, whether that me be Magnitogorsk or Gary, Indiana.”

Ifs Long Made Wanted Process Stronger Scales Tendencies Organized Capitalist Socialist Steel Stamps Alas Automobile Indiana Gary Large Scale

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:--for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty, man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.”

Source: Lectures Upon Shakspeare

“As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a WOW outcome!”

Ifs Way Looks Stories Process Journey Projects Creating Chiefs Narrative Outcomes Wow Odds Gang Yarn

Author:Tom Peters

“Happiness has to be installed in each person as a state of affairs completely cut off from the process that brought it about and, in particular, from the real situation. Man has to be affected with happiness. It is a tonality given to him. Contradiction: if one does take care to give him happiness, it is because he is a free creature--but in order to give it to him, one turns him into an object.”

Ifs Men Giving Persons Doe Real States Care Order Turns Given Process Situation Cutting Objects Particular Creatures Affair Take Care Contradiction Affected

Book:Notebooks for an Ethics

Source: Notebooks for an Ethics

“Iconography becomes even more revealing when processes or concepts, rather than objects, must be depicted for the constraint of a definite "thing" cedes directly to the imagination. How can we draw "evolution" or "social organization," not to mention the more mundane "digestion" or "self-interest," without portraying more of a mental structure than a physical reality? If we wish to trace the history of ideas, iconography becomes a candid camera trained upon the scholar's mind.”

Source: Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history

“We may need simple and heroic legends for that peculiar genre of literature known as the textbook. But historians must also labor to rescue human beings from their legends in science if only so that we may understand the process of scientific thought aright.”

Ifs Needs Humans May Literature Process Human Beings Simple Known Labor Genre Historian Peculiar Legends Heroic Rescue Textbooks

Book:The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

Source: The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

“A license cannot be revoked because a man is red-headed or because he was divorced, except for a calling, if such there be, for which red-headedness or an unbroken marriage may have some rational bearing. If a State licensing agency lays bare its arbitrary action, or if the State law explicitly allows it to act arbitrarily, that is precisely the kind of State action which the Due Process Clause forbids.”

Ifs Men Kind May States Action Law Process Calling Lays Dues Rational Agency License Arbitrary Divorced Unbroken Clauses Due Process Licensing

Author:Felix Frankfurter

“But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.”

People Ifs Humans Happens Dies Process Views Depression Normal Etc Being Human Learning Experience

Author:Bob Geldof

“It is impossible to understand the economic system in which we are living if we try to interpret it as a rational scheme.It has to be understood as an awkward phase in a continuing process of historical development.”

Ifs Trying Process Impossible Economic Development Understood Historical Rational Awkward Phases Schemes Continuing Economic Systems

Author:Edwin Arlington Robinson

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