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“I've made a few albums in such an autonomous way; it often has been exhausting. It's almost difficult to enjoy the process when you take on so much.”

Way Has Beens Made Process Enjoy Difficult Albums Exhausting Autonomous

Author:Grant-Lee Phillips

“But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.”

Mean Made Culture Courses Individual Given Process Parent Quality Steps Groups Civilization Independent Division Cellular

Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.”

Made Important Found Process Rhythm Formal Sections Timbre

Author:Karlheinz Stockhausen

“The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind.”

Mind Made Body Language Process Quality Extraordinary Privilege Mind And Body Payment Patents

Book:Political Economy

Source: Political Economy

“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

“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

“Biology is a software process. Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, each governed by this process. You and I are walking around with outdated software running in our bodies, which evolved in a very different era.”

Made Different Body Running Process Walking Cells Eras Biology Software Outdated Different Eras

Author:Ray Kurzweil

“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

“One of the things I've learned is there's no lesson to be learned. You have to resign yourself to the fact that mistakes are going to be made at any time in the creative process.”

Made Facts Process Mistake Creative Lessons I've Learned Creative Process Things I've Learned Lessons To Be Learned

Author:Damon Lindelof

“I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals, although they are part of large economic and social processes, influence history. Every mass is after all made up of millions of individuals.”

Thinking Knows Doe Made Book Courses Individual Social Process Millions Influence Economic Mass Historical Effectiveness

Book:Light Up the Cave

Source: Light Up the Cave

“Memory is not about what went on in the past, it is about what is going on inside us right this moment. It is made up of the stuff of life in the process of becoming the grist of the soul.”

Made Soul Moments Past Stuff Process Memories Becoming

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.”

Thinking Made Feelings Remember Process Painting

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance. Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices. And I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy. That men of all creeds have fundamental common objectives is a fact one must learn by the process of education. How to work jointly toward these objectives must be learned by experience.”

“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

“In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.”

Writing Has Beens Made Process Written Honesty Television Satisfying

Author:Vince Gilligan

“Indeed, some "revolutionaries" brand as "innocents," "dreamers," or even "reactionaries"; those who would challenge this educational practice. But one does not liberate people by alienating them. Authentic liberation - the process of humanization - is not another deposit to be made in men.”

People Men Doe Made Process Challenges Practice Educational Brands Liberation Revolutionary Dreamer Reactionaries Deposits Pedagogy

Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

“The original Jethro Tull was a 19th century English agriculturist who invented a seed drill you see. The first automatic process where by small holes were made in Mother Earth and even smaller seeds were deposited one at a time and neatly covered over as a cat does after having being naughty.”

Firsts Doe Made Earth Mother Process Century Cat Originals Seeds Holes Covered Mother Earth 19th Century Naughty Drills

Author:Ian Anderson

“Whoever makes something having bought or contracted for all other held resources used in the process (transferring some of his holdings for these cooperating factors), is entitled to it. The situation is not one of something's getting made, and there being an open question of who is to get it. Things come into the world already attached to people having entitlements over them.”

People World Made Used Process Situation Resources Factors Entitled Entitlement Cooperating

Book:Anarchy, state, and utopia

Source: Anarchy, state, and utopia

“[The doctrine of air] I was led into in consequence of inhabiting a house adjoining to a public brewery, where I at first amused myself with making experiments on the fixed air [carbon dioxide] which I found ready made in the process of fermentation . When I removed from that house I was under the necessity of making the fixed air for myself; and one experiment leading to another, as I have distinctly and faithfully noted in my various publications on the subject, I by degrees contrived a convenient apparatus for the purpose, but of the cheapest kind.”

“The main object of the work was to present such a survey of the advances already made in physical knowledge, and of the mode in which they have been made, as might serve as a real and firm basis for our speculations concerning the progress of human knowledge, and the processes by which sciences are formed.”

Humans Has Beens Made Real Might Process Progress Objects Bases Firm Speculation Surveys Human Knowledge

Book:History of the Inductive Sciences: I. The Greek school philosophy, with reference to physical science. II. The physical sciences in ancient Greece. III. Greek astronomy. IV. Physical science in the middle ages. V. Formal astronomy after the stationary period

Source: History of the Inductive Sciences: I. The Greek school philosophy, with reference to physical science. II. The physical sciences in ancient Greece. III. Greek astronomy. IV. Physical science in the middle ages. V. Formal astronomy after the stationary period

“If you let other people do some of the work that we ask ourselves to do, if you allow for the fact that we are ourselves dependent on and distributed over and in a way made up out of the world and processes around us then we can explain certain questions that we otherwise cannot explain and moreover we discover that we are not aliens in a strange world.”

People Ifs World Way Made Facts Certain Asks Process Strange Aliens Dependent Strange World

Author:Alva Noe

“Success is a an attitude and state of mind where I feel the exhilaration of knowing that I made a difference for many, did this doing what I love, and maing alot of money in the process so I get to experience many things in this extraordinary world. The most important part of success is a deep knowing that I made a difference for others.”

World Feels Mind Made Important States Process Differences Attitude Knowing Extraordinary State Of Mind Exhilaration

Author:Nancy Fox

“The 'coming of the Self' is immanent; and the process of collective 'individuation' is living itself out in human history. One way or another, the world is going to be made a single whole entity. But it will be unified either in mutual mass destruction or by means of mutual human consciousness. If a sufficient number of individuals can have the experience of the coming of the Self as an individual, inner experience, we may just possibly be spared the worst features of its external manifestation.”

“Performance is made in the editing room, and I've come to see the truth in that - the idea that they say performances are usually made in the editing room because what you film is the raw material. I think just going through the process of saying, "Which take do we use? Why is that the take we want? I want that take can you edit again, I'm not sure that's the one, I think it's this one." And just because you go through that process, I think somehow it's made me sort of more open about the [actor's] possibilities.”

Thinking Want Made Ideas Use Film Actors Process Rooms Possibility Materials Performances Not Sure Editing Edits Raw Materials

Author:Ralph Fiennes

“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

“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

“All of the progress that the US has made over the last couple of centuries has come from unemployment. It has come from figuring out how to produce more goods with fewer workers, thereby releasing labor to be more productive in other areas. It has never come about through permanent unemployment, but temporary unemployment, in the process of shifting people from one area to another.”

People Made Lasts Process Progress Century Produce Couple Areas Economics Labor Workers Permanent Productive Goods Temporary Fewer Unemployment Shifting

Author:Milton Friedman

“In America, where the electoral process is drowning in commercial techniques of fund-raising and image-making, we may have completed a circle back to a selection process as unconcerned with qualifications as that which made Darius King of Persia. ... he whose horse was the first to neigh at sunrise should be King.”

Should Firsts May Made Government America Politics Process Kings Horse Technique Circles Fund Sunrise Selection Drowning Qualifications Persia Unconcerned Electoral Process Darius

Author:Barbara Tuchman

“It is far easier to explain to a three-year-old how babies are made than to explain the processes whereby bread or sugar appear on the table.”

Years Made Three Process Baby Easier Tables Bread Three Years Sugar Three Year Olds

Author:Dervla Murphy

“People, who live below their means, save for a rainy day - the price is a cheap life. There are a lot of people who have a lot of money; but at the end of the process, they are still cheap; so they have made money their God.”

People Mean Made Stills Ends Process Lots Of Money Rainy Rainy Day

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“Families and societies are small and large versions of one another. Both are made up of people who have to work together, whose destinies are tied up with one another. Each features the components of a relationship: leaders perform roles relative to the led, the young to the old, and male to female; and each is involved with the process of decision-making, use of authority, and the seeking of common goals.”

Source: The new peoplemaking

“The vast results obtained by Science are won by no mystical faculties, by no mental processes other than those which are practicedby every one of us, in the humblest and meanest affairs of life. A detective policeman discovers a burglar from the marks made by his shoe, by a mental process identical with that by which Cuvier restored the extinct animals of Montmartre from fragments of their bones.”

Made Reason Process Animal Results Mark Shoes Affair Bones Faculty Mystical Fragments Identical Policemen Detectives Scientific Method Burglars Extinct Animals

Author:Thomas Huxley

“In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of both races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.”

“We said that pledges made in the peace process need to be fulfilled as soon as possible.”

Needs Made Said Peace Process Fulfilled Pledge

Author:Ahmet Davutoglu

“The choice--the dedication to one's highest potential--is made by accepting the fact that the noblest act you have ever performed is the act of your mind in the process of grasping that two and two make four.”

Mind Made Two Facts Choices Process Accepting Four Highest Dedication Grasping

Author:John Galt

“Pilots get made, and they don't go to series. Stuff gets written and never gets made. I've tried to develop stuff that never went. It comes and it goes. It's a part of the process.”

Made Stuff Process Written Series Pilots

Author:Jason Lee

“It's always exciting to be a part of the development and creative process, and I hope to continue to do it. I feel like, especially in the comedic world, it's how things have to be done. You have to be a part of the motivating factor of getting the movie made. It's so hard.”

World Feels Made Hard Done Process Creative Development Exciting Factors Made It Creative Process Comedic

Author:Anna Faris

“I had a very blessed journey with the upbringing I had. When you're working on sets as a stuntman, you have a firsthand account of the dynamics between actors and directors, because you're working hand in hand with them. You're not sitting outside the process watching. You become part of the process. You also see your tradecraft and see how movies are made.”

Made Hands Actors Process Journey Directors Sitting Accounts Blessed Upbringing Hand In Hand Dynamics Stuntman

Author:Ric Roman Waugh

“Once you realize that the universe is made up of processes, not things, you are really on a roll, for what makes life truly interesting are the connections between events.”

Made Universe Process Realizing Interesting Events Connections Paganism

Book:Solitary Witch: The Ultimate Book of Shadows for the New Generation

Source: Solitary Witch: The Ultimate Book of Shadows for the New Generation