Quotes on Process

The modern theory of evolution does not require gradual change. It in fact, the operation of Darwinian processes should yield exactly what we see in the fossil record. It is gradualism that we must reject, not Darwinism.

I am aware that I am very old now; but I am also aware that I have never been so young as I am now, in spirit, since I was fourteen and entertained Jim Wolf with the wasps. I am only able to perceive that I am old by a mental process; I am altogether unable to feel old in spirit. It is a pity, too, for my lapses from gravity must surely often be a reproach to me. When I am in the company of very young people I always feel that I am one of them, and they probably privately resent it.

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'

The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is him/herself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also teach. They become jointly responsible for a process in which all grow.

Although the teachers or the students are not the same, the person in charge of education is being formed or re-formed as he/she teaches, and the person who is being taught forms him/herself in the process. ...There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.

When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self - a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - the willful act of making the change, doing something.

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.

Though we feel we can choose what we do, our understanding of the molecular basis of biology shows that biological processes are governed by the laws of physics and chemistry and therefore are as determined as the orbits of the planets.

"The making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from year to year, so long as our civilization shall last."

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it.

Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.

It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.

Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.