Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.

Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.

Squaring numbers is a symmetrical process that I like very much. And when I divide one number by another, say, 13 divided by 97, I see a spiral rotating downwards in larger and larger loops...

I can’t write a novel without first really doing reporting. I don’t even call it research; it’s reporting. That process is very important to the granularity of my writing. I have to know what the...

The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process.

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.

Senators, like everyone else, want to feel a part of this decision-making process. They want to feel included.

Every transaction has its process. Until you submit to it, you will always be living below potential.

The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process – as we saw...

Faith is a process in action. It cannot exist without work.

Scientists are human—they’re as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.

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.

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.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do.

The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs his pockets. The scrap heap and the museum are embraced with equal curiosity....

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

In life we are always getting ready to live, but we are forgetting to live in the process.

Actors, I don’t think, ever really grow up. I’m hoping that that rejuvenating process applies to me, too. It has so far. I’ve been very lucky.

If I hadn’t been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It’s just really what I’m interested in: the human psyche and how we process information.

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

I think the funds that have been pledged at Euro Summit, combined with the outcome of the private sector involvement process should be sufficient in order to support financially the Greek Economy.

Yes, yes, no one denies, for example, that you’re going to be able to fix the Murray through the Living Murray process without money, no one denies that.

The crowd and its team had finally understood that in games, as in many things, the ending, the final score, is only part of what matters. The process, the pleasure, the grain of the game...

I like to cook Indian food when I can. I find the process of creating a home-cooked meal to be unwinding.

I worked 18 years to become an overnight success. Now MagicPlace.com will short circuit that process for people.

For success, purpose is more important than process.

Working with the doctors is a fascinating two-way process. I am interested in what they suggest about why I’m the way I am. But if they could make me ‘normal’, I wouldn’t want that. I’ve...

Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits and comment letters and blue-ribbon committees? Not so tough, it turns out.

Any peace process after so many years of horror and terror will be long and difficult.

With a computer, you make your changes on the screen and then you print out a clean copy. With a typewriter, you can’t get a clean manuscript unless you start again from scratch. It’s an...

Every cell in our body is primarily water. But the water doesn’t just sit in the cell, it moves through it in a very organized way. The process occurs rapidly in tissues that have these...

In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.

The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.

Life is a process of changes; happy and sad.Life is beautiful; and Life is happiness

Education is not a perfect process but it reduces the imperfection in our lives.

It’s tough when markets change and your people within the company don’t.

Poetry is a connection to a change within you.

I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the country – but it’s controllable, it’s workable and it will lead to a...

The better the acting is, the harder it is to see what the process is.

In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.

I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simulated wild environment and, for those who have been tested on, who are disabled, aggressive, etc., their...

Writing is a process of creating yourself again and again for an ever-searching mind.

Formulating the proposal is about 80% of the actual time of the process. In the end, the time spent filming, editing and postproduction is a very small proportion of the total time you spend in...

The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own source code. The key idea is that if you can improve intelligence even a little, the process accelerates. It’s a...

I couldn’t make sense of things. But then I began the process of civilising myself and trying to become a decent human being. I’m still working on it.

deep in love-forgiveness start it’s process automatically to heal any kind of pain

But charity is a very complicated thing. It’s important to find an area where you can really help and you can feel the results. Charity is not like feeding pigeons in the square. It is...

Talking to the Taliban is a process the Afghans have to manage. It is their country.

Liz paced and talked like it was just another test. Another challenge. She was looking at it like an exercise in probability – cause and effect. It’s the physics of human nature, and to truly...