451 Quotes About Process

Forget about trusting the process; trust the people.

If we have not changed, we have not learned

The “result” of life is death, so when you create, the importance is not on the result but on the process of creating in and of itself.

To me, the process of writing is just reading what I’ve written and—like running your hand over one of those mod glass stovetops to find where the heat is—looking for where the energy is in the prose, then going in the direction of that. It’s an exercise in being open to whatever is there.

Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.

If we really believe that He who begun the work will be faithful to complete it, why do we put a time limit on Him? EL

Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.

The artist works by locating the world in himself

Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.