Process Quotes

“Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.”

“Science finds it methods.”

“Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.”

“He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried? Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting. Have I not tarried? Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening. Still have I tarried. Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips.”

“Writing a book is an adventure.”

“I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth.”

“The purpose of dancing isn't to end up at a particular spot on the floor. The purpose of dancing - and of life - is to enjoy every moment and every step, regardless of where you are when the music ends.”

“Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire,Begin it with weak straws.”

“Success is the doing, not the getting - in the trying, not the triumph.”

“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.”

“Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us, when we prefer our own way to hers.”

“Get your passion on the paper. Detach from the outcome. Forget about whether it's going to get published.”

“He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.”

“When I get on the dance floor, my purpose in being on the dance floor is not to end up at another spot when the music stops. The purpose of the dance is to enjoy every step along the way.”

“Success is not a destination, it's a journey.”

“Success is one thing you can't pay for. You buy it on the installment plan and make payments everyday.”

“Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.”

“You gotta climb the steps... you can't skip them”

“Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.”

“But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as geometers would, if the latter were to say that the diameter of a circle is the same thing as its semi-circumference, because, forsooth, they terminate in the same two points.”

“Results should not be too voluntarily aimed at or too busily thought of. They are sure to float up of their own accord from a long enough daily work at a given matter.”

“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.”

“Success is not something you achieve, conquer, climb, or complete. Success is a process; it's a way of life.”

“What's done is done. The joy is in the doing.”

“I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ.”