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Process Quotes

Where change begins, one deliberate step at a time.

This collection gathers quotes on process, the unglamorous stretch between an idea and its finished form, from a movie's scriptwriting stage to how a university builds a fair admissions system. Several also reflect on process in a much heavier sense: the long, uneven march of historical reform toward freedom. For more on the mindset behind making things, see our Creative quotes.

It's something that one expects after 12 years - to be eaten up by the process - but we're still very much on the outside.

Quotes by Siouxsie Sioux

The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.

Quotes by Simon Cowell

I produce more movies than I write, but when I write, it is such an immersive, intense process that it probably takes as much or more time than producing multiple movies.

Quotes by Simon Kinberg

'Deadpool' feels like it exploded out of nowhere, but it was a ten-year development process on that movie. I think it was honed over those ten years.

Quotes by Simon Kinberg

I enjoy the details. I enjoy coming up with ideas for improving the script, changing scenes and deciding what locations and wardrobe should be - the process of making a film.

Quotes by Sidney Sheinberg

The performance of Carnatic music is multi-dimensional and layered. A performance is at once an artiste's cathartic process of personal exploration and an open energy exchange with the audience: a release and a conversation.

Quotes by Sid Sriram

The gene that enables birds to learn songs can become cancer-causing. There is no normal physiological process that can't be bastardized by the disease.

Quotes by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Email did precisely what I predicted, back in 1978, it took over the postal mail process and system of writing letters.

Quotes by Shiva Ayyadurai

I have not seen much dignity in the process by which we die. The quest to achieve true dignity fails when our bodies fail.

Quotes by Sherwin B. Nuland

I've seen so many patients, particularly elderly patients, over the years who become debilitated and changed by the process by which I cure them or another doctor cures them. And has it really been worth it?

Quotes by Sherwin B. Nuland

Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves.

Quotes by Sheena Iyengar

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?

Quotes by Sharon Tate

Film is a collaborative process, absolutely, but I am a control freak.

Quotes by Shane Carruth

I'm interested in making something that moves quickly, that hopefully is compelling minute-by-minute but really packed densely with exploration. I'm very interested in how re-visitable we can make films. If we can get them closer to a music album, then...

Quotes by Shane Carruth

So many mouths can get fed, so many minds can be nourished, if India and Pakistan resolve the Kashmir issue through a Kashmiri-owned, Kashmiri-led peace process.

Quotes by Shahid Afridi

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can...

Quotes by Seth Lloyd

Death is astute as a master. It's a process that teaches people aspects of themselves.

Quotes by Sebastian Lelio

Craft comes into acting later rather than sooner. I was somebody who had to learn through a process - a natural actor doesn't need to.

Quotes by Sean Penn

People don't realize how many aspects of our lives are touched in one way or another by not just the discoveries, the technological breakthroughs, but the process of science.

Quotes by Sean M. Carroll

It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts.

Quotes by Sean Durkin

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these quotes about process focus on?
They explore process from several angles — the practical stages of making a movie, the fairness of an admissions process, and the slower processes of historical change. It's a good reminder that most big outcomes are built step by step rather than happening all at once.
Is there a quote about the moviemaking process?
Yes. One quote notes that "Movies are made in the scriptwriting process and prepping and preparations for the shooting process," highlighting how much work happens before filming even starts. If you enjoy quotes about the arts, the Creative quotes page covers similar ground.
Do any of these quotes talk about fairness or admissions?
One quote discusses using race "as one of many factors in an admissions process that is accessible to all," in the context of cultivating leaders who reflect a diverse society.
Is there a quote connecting process to history or emancipation?
Yes, a couple of quotes describe emancipation in America as something that could have come through "the slower process of humanitarian reform," but instead arrived through war — and note that "the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour."
Where can I read more quotes in a similar reflective tone?
You might enjoy the Being quotes for thoughts on identity and existence, or the Me quotes for more personal reflections.

Some quotes here are less about method and more about identity, how a process shapes Being along the way. Pair this page with our Like for more on comparison and change.