process quotes

• Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. (John F. Kennedy) [/process]
• Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life. (Saul Alinsky) [life/process/time/child]
• In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action. (Hannah Arendt) [revenge/action/process/acts]
• Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods --moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former --but no opinion. (Hannah Arendt) [process/discussion/opinion]
• The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. (Walter Benjamin) [reality/reality/process/scope]
• We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds. (Warren Buffett) [process/more]
• Life is one long process of getting tired. (Samuel Butler) [life/process]
• The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. (Elias Canetti) [process/night]
• Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being. (Thomas Carlyle) [culture/process/being]
• Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. (Kenneth Clark) [process]
• Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself. (John Dewey) [education/process/education/growth]
• To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization. (Albert Einstein) [attempt/process]
• For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations? (George Eliot) [character/process/mind/influence]
• Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise. (Eric Hoffer) [process/think]
• The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product. (Eric Hoffer) [human/human/process/more]
• Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. (John F. Kennedy) [/process]
• Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. (Arthur Koestler) [activity/type/process]
• Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up. (Philip Larkin) [process]
• We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder censorship, we call it concern for commercial viability. (David Mamet) [process/wonder]
• Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it. (Harriet Martineau) [customs/process/observation/customs]
• Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk. (Henry Miller) [process/pornography]
• The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful -- my personal life suffers. (Al Pacino) [process/life]
• Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information -- never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good -- he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world. ( Plato) [reality/process//intelligence]
• The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination. (Carl Rogers) [life/process/state/being]
• Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process. (Jim Rohn) [process]
• A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress -- though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known. (Bertrand Russell) [process/civilization & progress/opinion]
• Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. (Gloria Steinem) [power/process]
• To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects. (Margaret Thatcher) [process/beliefs]
• The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left. (Orson Welles) [type/type/process/reality]
• We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on (Virginia Woolf) [strange/process/thinking/think]
• I really want to see Israel. I would like to come and to express my support in the peace process there, and help the war orphans. (Peta Wilson) [/process/war]

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