#process

I have a hardcore attitude: a “self-published, ghost-written book” is wrong because the concept behind self publishing is that you have knowledge or emotions that you want to express. When people read a book—particularly a self-published one—they have the right to expect that it’s the person’s writing, not cleaned-up dictation or slapping a name on a book that someone else wrote. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

#writing #writing-advice #writing-process #attitude

...the most beautiful things don't always make you happy - often they make you weep... ↗

— John Geddes

#happy #musing #weep #writing-craft #writing-process

It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair. ↗

— Zalmay Khalilzad

#counting #election #fair #free #important

In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#circumstances #compute #figure #how #information

Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders). ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#additional #bipartisan #deeply #gain #incumbents

The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states. ↗

— Burke Marshall

#american #concept #death #death penalty #different

I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia. ↗

— Patrick McHenry

#because #corruption #election #federal #federal judge

We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process. ↗

— Patrick McHenry

#congressional #need #process #reform #writing process

This independent report clearly indicates that while we may differ among ourselves in government about what to spend money on, we have one of the most reliable and non-political processes for agreeing on how much money there is. We don't play games with the numbers. ↗

— Ruth Ann Minner

#agreeing #among #clearly #differ #games

I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. ~ I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely finite and ephemeral; to participate in something mysterious and communal called “culture” – and that this yearning is as strong in our species as the yearning to reproduce the species. ~ Through the local or regional, through our individual voices, we work to create art that will speak to others who know nothing of us. In our very obliqueness to one another, an unexpected intimacy is born. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#writing-philosophy #writing-process #art