#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.”

“It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.”

“When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.”

“When you arrive where you thought you wanted to be, you'll just begin a new journey so enjoy each step along the way”

“Innovation is an ongoing process that you build into your culture.”

“Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.”

“As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.”

“I'm certainly not saying that my life is what success is all about. To me, success is the ongoing process of striving to become more.”

“My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write what I have to say the best way I can - then lay it aside - taking it up again after some time and reading it afresh - the mind new to it. If there's no jar in the new reading, well and good - that's sufficient for me.”

“You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”

“We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.”

“My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed... I would work in this way when I was out in the crowds, then put the stuff together at home.”

“All the months are crude experiments,out of which the perfect September is made.”

“It’s not that I want money. It’s the fun of making money and watching it grow.”

“Success is processional. It's the result of a series of small disciplines that lead us into habitual patterns of success that no longer require consistent will or effort.”

“Art was always a means to an end with me. You get an idea, and you just can't wait. Once you've started, then you're in there with the punches flying. There's plenty of trouble, but you can handle it. You can't back out. It gets you down once in a while, but it's exciting. Our whole business is exciting.”

“My fun is working on a project and solving the problems.”

“The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.”

“I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.”

“The story man must see clearly in his own mind how every piece of business will be put over. He should feel every expression, every reaction. He get far enough from his story to take a second look at it... to see whether there is any dead phase... to see whether the personalities are going to be interesting and appealing to the audience. He should also try to see that the things that his characters are doing are of an interesting nature.”

“Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.”

“The fun is in always building something. After it's built, you play with it awhile and then you're through. You see, we never do the same thing twice around here. We're always opening up new doors.”

“The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a mistake to think that literature can be produced from the raw. One must get out of life...one must become externalised; very, very concentrated, all at one point, not having to draw upon the scattered parts of one's character, living in the brain.”

“Art is the path of the creator to his work.”

“I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.”

“Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.”