Top 100 Quotes About Processes
#1. -You are killing me."
" -We? Not we. Not in any sense, we. Processes are killing you, not we. Inexorable processes.
Donald Barthelme
#2. In today's world of technology we should no longer be using outdated paper processes to accomplish tasks such as requisitions, reports, approvals, and purchase orders
Mark Cuban
#3. Most processes leave out the stuff no one wants to talk about: magic, intuition and leaps of faith.
Michael Bierut
#4. From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness.
Robert A. Heinlein
#5. The destructive potential of language is contained within the very nature of representation. Words, particularly nouns, force an infinite of unique objects and processes into a finite number of categories.
Charles Eisenstein
#6. You must look at the processes of motion in the macrocosmos and microcosmos accurately, and copy them!
Viktor Schauberger
#7. A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework within which we organize our ideas about processes.
Hal Abelson
#8. There are two kinds of paradises in our universe: The ones which have been created by the evolutionary processes and the ones which have been created by the living beings! There exists no other paradise!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#9. What are the visual and narrative processes by which animals engage with their own representation?
Susan McHugh
#10. The language in which we express our ideas has a strong influence on our thought processes.
Donald Knuth
#11. On a digital continuum, you'd have well-defined processes on one end and loosely defined practices on the other end.
Pearl Zhu
#12. You're going to see new processes that utilize waste as the source of energy, so there's no petroleum consumed in the process - that makes the energy balance uniformly positive.
Al Gore
#13. Assume responsibility for outcomes as well as for the processes and people you work with. How you achieve results will shape the kind of person you become.
C. K. Prahalad
#14. Ribosomes have an error rate of about one letter in 10,000, far lower than the defect rate in our own high-quality manufacturing processes. And they operate at a rate of about 10 amino acids per second, building whole proteins with chains comprising hundreds of amino acids in less than a minute.
Nick Lane
#15. When the human body is put under exceptional strain, a range of dormant genes in the DNA are expressed and extraordinary physiological processes are activated.
K. Anders Ericsson
#17. National security is a place where the private sector could be helpful because the government is woefully behind the technology curve. But secondly, the bureaucratic processes that have been in place since 9/11 are woefully inadequate as well.
Carly Fiorina
#18. Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?
Oliver Heaviside
#19. Why would a novel - which is all about the inward processes of people's developing feelings and developing relationships - why would you be able to portray that in pictures with as few words as possible, which is what the best films are?
Sebastian Faulks
#20. The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption.
Clayton Christensen
#21. The way a film is made tells you about its message. The processes are the same as the products. We made the film starting from processes that allowed us to find these complex ideas.
Alex Abreu
#22. I am guilty of believing that the human race can be humanized and enriched in every spiritual inference through the saner and more beneficent processes of peaceful persuasion applied to material problems rather than through wars, riots and bloodshed.
Eugene V. Debs
#23. When we look at chimpanzees ... we get this extremely fine-grained view of evolution, and as a result we understand a lot more about the processes that are changing our own genome over time.
Bob Waterston
#24. It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of our own unconscious processes.
Jeanette Winterson
#25. Mary Kay knew that when you put people first and then surround them with processes and disciplines that recognize their efforts, performance will soar.
David C. Novak
#26. The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.
David Herbert Donald
#27. Our increasing ability to alter our biology and open up the processes of life is now fueling a new cultural war.
Gregory Stock
#28. We have at least 125 communities in Arizona at risk from wildfire, not because of review processes or litigation delays but because of a lack of federal funding on the ground to actually begin the projects.
Janet Napolitano
#29. The mind thinks upon, processes, and remembers what the senses forget.
A.J. Darkholme
#30. One could say that someone who does nothing but wait is like a glutton whose digestive system processes great masses of food without extracting any useful nourishment. One could go further and say that just as undigested food does not strengthen a man, time spent in waiting does not age him.
Thomas Mann
#31. The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even though the aura of scientific processes and results is often appropriated by other intellectuals.
Thomas Sowell
#32. He belonged to that inarticulate order of young Englishmen who dislike any form of emotion, and who find it peculiarly hard to explain their mental processes in words.
Agatha Christie
#33. Hybrid Thinking is a set of interdisciplinary and integrative thinking processes we will need to solve many of today's complex problems.
Pearl Zhu
#34. A story matrix connects all of us.
There are rules, processes, and circles of responsibility in this world. And the story begins exactly where it is supposed to begin. We cannot skip any part.
Joy Harjo
#36. When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another.
Jeff Bridges
#37. I like to put good food in my mouth, and while I am aware of the calories I ingest, instead of cutting them I make them count. I have a full-on love affair with food, appreciating the different cultures and processes within it.
Brittany Gibbons
#38. Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.
Naomi Wolf
#39. Heat may be generated and destroyed by certain processes, and this shows that heat is not a substance.
James Clerk Maxwell
#40. Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary.
Paul Bowles
#41. The history of the development of mechanics is quite indispensable to a full comprehension of the science in its present condition. It also affords a simple and instructive example or the processes by which natural science generally is developed.
Ernst Mach
#42. Psychology, on the other hand, seeks to give account of the interconnexion of processes which are evinced by our own consciousness, or which we infer from such manifestations of the bodily life in other creatures as indicate the presence of a consciousness similar to our own.
Wilhelm Wundt
#43. Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisal processes of the United Nations was essential if the organization was to effectively serve women's interests.
Jenny Shipley
#44. A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes.
William Irwin Thompson
#45. I wasn't taking so many drugs that it was messing up my creative processes. It was a very good period, 1968 - there was a good feeling in the air. It was a very creative period for everyone.
Mick Jagger
#46. The advanced levels which the democratic world has attained at the end of lengthy processes may have created the perception in the region that democracy is a distant concept; this perception can be addressed.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
#47. Each person processes information in a particular style.
Andrew L.
#48. A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
Stephen Covey
#49. As an engineer, I tended to maintain my own equipment along with developing the processes for it.
Brian Krzanich
#50. In mind's special processes, a ten-mile run takes far longer than the 60 minutes reported by a grandfather clock. Such time, in fact, hardly exists at all in the real world; it is all out on the trail somewhere, and you only go back to it when you are out there.
John L. Parker Jr.
#51. We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.
Mohsin Hamid
#52. Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
(Nero Wolfe)
Rex Stout
#53. Meditation, you know, comes by a process imagination. You go through all these processes purification of the elements - making the one melt the other, that into the next higher, that into mind, that into spirit, and then you are spirit.
Swami Vivekananda
#54. I - it's simply not for me to evaluate an independent rating agency's processes. But I will say that there was reason to be anxious - absolute reason to be anxious.
Jay Carney
#55. Write in a disciplined manner, but write in a way that is natural to the individual's thought processes.
Donald McKay
#56. Anxiety, in short, is a conscious feeling. It can arise in a bottom-up way, driven by activity in defensive circuits or from higher processes that conceptualize worry, either about an uncertain future or about existence itself.
Joseph E. Ledoux
#57. Our students should be playing Beethoven with research processes, but instead we are hearing Mary Had a Little Lamb.
William Badke
#58. Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.
Daniel Pipes
#59. Every decision by every decision-maker needs to be informed by an understanding of how technology changes business processes.
Pearl Zhu
#60. Nanotechnology experts are developing a bionic immune system composed of millions of nano-robots, who would inhabit our bodies, open blocked blood vessels, fight viruses and bacteria, eliminate cancerous cells and even reverse ageing processes.
Yuval Noah Harari
#61. To a person growing up in the power of demography, it was clear that history had to do not with the powerful actions of certain men but with the processes of choice and preference.
George W. S. Trow
#62. The view that all mental processes are necessarily physical processes is a metaphysical assumption, not a scientific fact.
Dalai Lama XIV
#63. Psychologist Erich Fromm coined the term ["biophilia"] in 1964 as a way of describing the innate attraction to processes of life and growth.
Adam Leith Gollner
#64. Cheerleading was my way in. It was one of the most rigorous audition processes ever. It definitely groomed me for Hollywood.
Sarah Shahi
#65. We do not know how God created, what processes He used, for God used processes which are not now operating anywhere in the natural universe. This is why we refer to divine creation as special creation. We cannot discover by scientific investigations anything about the creative processes used by God.
Duane Gish
#66. In manufacturing, where mechanization and the use of chemical processes are much easier, it is easier to raise productivity than in services. In contrast, by their very nature, many service activities are inherently impervious to productivity increase without diluting the quality of the product.
Ha-Joon Chang
#67. We think we have the best matching algorithm, we think we have the best members. So why wouldn't we want to just shine the light onto just how our processes work, what the real data are, and let people come to their own conclusions.
Sam Yagan
#68. To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.
Brene Brown
#69. Sustainability is growth based on forms and processes of development that do not undermine the integrity of the environment on which they depend
Jim MacNeill
#70. We must not focus on occupying the spaces where power is exercised, but rather on starting long-run historical processes. We must initiate processes rather than occupy spaces.
Pope Francis
#71. I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#72. ...saving a life and nurturing a life are different processes, and that to succeed in the former one must dispense with the pathos of the latter.
Anthony Marra
#73. Crying is for the eyes as sorrow is for the heart. Both are natural cleansing processes. But you'll more likely see a Christian crying than a Banker, because one has indoctrinated himself in the idea of being a sheep, while the other has educated himself into thinking like a wolf.
Daniel Marques
#74. Systems and processes will always surpass motivation.
Chris Matakas
#75. My mind is evidently so constituted that I am subconsciously forced into the path of duty without recourse to tiresome mental processes.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#76. Editing and selectivity are processes that provide the first steps in determining and conveying content.
Gerald Brommer
#77. Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life.
Wilhelm Wundt
#78. At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, processes of intuiting that grasp the object in the original.
Edmund Husserl
#79. It is the business of future to be dangerous ... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.
Alfred North Whitehead
#80. Because I'm a doctor, I know when you have an injury it will heal if it's clean enough to heal; if your injury is dirty, it won't heal. And so when you are talking in societies, we are also talking in healing processes, and for a good healing process, you need to make things right.
Michelle Bachelet
#81. To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
Bertolt Brecht
#82. The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can't even spell. I don't even have a high school diploma. I'm smart, but you can't prove it on paper.
Ron White
#83. For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.
Edward Thorndike
#84. We must be our own authentically unique truth, and question who we are, what created us, and what processes within us are alien and externally created.
Bryant McGill
#85. I do not think being a coordinator is a requirement, but it does give you some advantages. You get used to working with half the team and you go through the game-planning and decision-making processes.
Tony Dungy
#86. My brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated any enjoyable response to the living world.
William Styron
#87. Self-consciousness is, from a naturalistic point of view (in this case neurobiological), not more than a degree of sophistication of neural processes. The emergence of self-conscious states is not a drastic, extravagant, earth-shaking phenomenon.
Istvan Aranyosi
#88. It was once said that religion explains in terms of agents what science explains in terms of processes.
Anthony Peake
#89. Enzymes - plainly the most important biotechnology of our era - already permeate many industrial processes. Unlike fossil fuels, they carry chemical programming which drives complex reactions, are renewable, and work at ordinary pressures and temperatures.
Gregory Benford
#90. No mortal thing has a beginning, nor does it end in death and obliteration; there is only a mixing and then separating of what was mixed, but by mortal men these processes are named "beginnings.
Empedocles
#91. As intellectualism suppresses belief in magic, the world's processes become disenchanted, lose the magical significance, and henceforth simply 'are' and 'happen' but no longer signify anything.
Max Weber
#92. Gravity is one variable in a lot of scientific processes. If you can remove gravity or minimize its effect, then you can understand the other processes that are going on.
Laurel Clark
#93. The racial question, and thus class struggle, of course, I think they are processes which necessarily are intersecting all the time. I understand that there are moments they disassociate, but in the end they are things that go walking together practically all the time.
Bocafloja
#94. Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.
Aaron Ciechanover
#95. Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes.
Thomas J. Scheff
#96. The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over the years, we've managed to convince ourselves that reading fiction is as important to our mental digestion as fresh fruits and vegetables are to the processes that take place a little further down.
Lynn Coady
#97. The opportunity should not be lost, which is afforded by the occasion, for illustrating and enforcing the thought that the universe, its creation, its arrangement, and all of its developing processes, are not due to human planning or oversight, but to the infinite wisdom and power of God.
Andrew S. Draper
#98. The trick, of course, is to lose one day and come back to win the next. But that is possible only when we draw healthy pleasure and confidence from our creative processes.
John H. Lienhard
#99. What we're seeking to do is internalize perception. Perception is very much involved with the senses and the mental processes and the emotional processes.
Frederick Lenz
#100. Governance as process . Governance is also viewed predominantly as a process, for example, of assigning decision rights, monitoring the exercise of those rights, and reviewing and adjusting these assignments and processes.
Anonymous
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