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Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.
There is so much about the process of writing that is mysterious to me, but this one thing I've found to be true: writing begets writing.
Humor is basically a cognitive process. And it's a creative process not only on the part of the cartoonist but on the part of the viewer.
You take the best ingredients - the best cocoa beans - and you process them in the best traditional way, and you have the best chocolate.
You can't really make something or make a movie and feel all through the process that it's a painful thing. It's not possible to do that.
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more reasonable than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just.
I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning.
It doesn't matter whose idea it is or where it came from or when it arrived in the process. The best idea is the best idea no matter what.
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.
Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.
Popularity isn't just something that happens. You have to give something in exchange for it, and that's the dangerous part of the process.
Our electoral process has created perverse incentives that have warped our democracy and empowered special interests and a vocal minority.
When I'm making stuff, the thing that excites me most is not the result, but the process and trying to do something I've never done before.
I've never got a part in the same way twice. I've never prepared the same way. I've never experienced the filming the process the same way.
Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.
There is no universal template that can be applied to everybody. So everyone kind of enter the process in their own way, on their own time.
In general, the apparel industry isn't about continual process improvement or making the perfect piece of denim; it's about chasing trends.
Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.
I think we all want to successfully push back the aging process, to deny the aging process. Who among us says, 'Yippee, I'm getting older'?
We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is not for sale.
The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.
Everyone should smile. Life really isn’t that serious. We make it hard. The sun rises. The sun sets. We just tend to complicate the process.
I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
The temptation to quit and start over infects every creative process I've ever been in. Frustration and boredom always fuel this self-doubt.
No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.
I love to work. I really enjoy getting up really early and driving downtown. I just really love the process of acting and being on a series.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
We don't have the flexibility of changing the bid amount. We can go through the whole process and someone else could beat us by giving more.
I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.
My process is always the same. Maybe that's why I stay so consistent, it really doesn't change. I only know one way to record and do things.
Any Supreme Court confirmation needs to be a thoughtful process, with full respect for the separation of powers outlined in the Constitution.
Work hard, work away from the game, work when no one's looking, and just knowing that it's a process. Everything will come at the right time.
Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.
Millions of human vermin swarm sweating along the night-arched cavernous roads. (Happily rapid chemical processes will disintegrate them all.
When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.
In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it.
The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.
I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.
I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of improvising your life.
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
I worry about what I can control, and that's come out and improve every day, enjoy the process, count your blessings, and work extremely hard.
Cubism came about because, in the process of analyzing form, something that lay in the form, a plane, could be lifted out to float on its own.
In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.
Ultimately, the reward is the process - the process of photographing and discovering and trying to understand why and what am I photographing.
I tend to like order in almost every other aspect of my life, but for me, the process of writing is really chaotic and decadent and indulgent.
My writing has always been a rather non-linear process. I've found if I get something down, I can listen to it and other things start to come.