#process

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#decline #dissolution #drunkard #fitness #gutter

On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can't watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn't make any sense, does it? ↗

— Sharon Tate

#children #does #each #love #make

Getting our military back on stable footing won't happen overnight. We must start this process now, since future engagements are likely and allies are scarce. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#back #engagements #footing #future #getting

If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process. ↗

— Cecil Taylor

#creation #goal #life #living #music

I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#directed #films #get #gone #good

I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#also #art #aspect #creating #creative

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. ↗

— Edward Koch

#bosom #friend #growing #growing old #make

I understand the process of politics and the game of television. ↗

— John Sununu

#i #politics #process #television #understand

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#achieving #blessed #clarity #cursed #documenting

The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#felt #go #gut #hit #mean