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“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

“When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing down; whether experience, so much touted among adults as the thing children lack, is not actually a progressive dilution of the essentials by the trivialities of living.”

Mind Children Process Wonder Growing Up Growing Essentials Adults Impression Progressive Triviality

Book:Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

Source: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

“The origins and travels of our purchases remain matters of indifference, although to the more imaginative at least a slight dampness at the bottom of a carton, or an obscure code printed along a computer cable, may hint at processes of manufacture and transport nobler and more mysterious, more worthy of wonder and study, than the very goods themselves.”

May Matter Process Wonder Study Computer Bottom Very Good Worthy Mysterious Code Indifference Goods Obscure Imaginative Cables Printed Hints Transport

Author:Alain de Botton

“We know from astronomy that the universe had a beginning, from physics that the future is both open and unpredictable, from geology and paleontology that the whole of life has been a process of change and transformation. From biology we know that our tissues are not impenetrable reservoirs of vital magic, but a stunning matrix of complex wonders, ultimately explicable in terms of biochemistry and molecular biology. With such knowledge we can see, perhaps for the first time, why a Creator would have allowed our species to be fashioned by the process of evolution.”

“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.”

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Author:Grace Helbig

“I actually think the creative process is finite, and I'm wondering whether I've retched everything up. Because it's like vomiting or shitting.”

Thinking Process Wonder Creative Creative Process Finite Vomiting

Author:Andy Partridge

“When I see my work in a gallery I often wonder how I got to this point. Sometimes the process of making the work feels like a blur, and I look at the work and wonder how I actually made it.”

Feels Looks Made Sometimes Process Wonder Made It Gallery Blur

Author:Polixeni Papapetrou

“I seem to wonder if we can reach some kind of new destination with cinema, or touch upon human existence in a different way to what cinema usually does in its very schematic and sometimes very controlled, plot-oriented ways of thinking. Sometimes I feel like I've found the holy grail, and next week I think it's a complete mistake and I need to try something completely different. It's an ongoing process.”

“The capacity to still feel wonder is essential to the creative process.”

Feels Stills Process Wonder Creative Essentials Capacity Creative Process

Author:Donald Woods Winnicott

“Is it any wonder somebody like Donald Trump is racing through the presidential primary process?”

Process Wonder Trump Primaries Presidential Racing

Author:Rush Limbaugh