Dynamic Process Quotes

The road to success is always under construction. It is a progressive course, not an end to be reached.

Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art.

Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.

The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.

Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.

How lavish is Nature building, pulling down, creating, destroying, chasing every material particle from form to form, ever changing, ever beautiful.

As a coach, they would love to sit there and say, 'It's going to be five steps, you're going to hitch up into a perfect pocket, you're going to look at number one - no; you're going to go to number two - no.' It doesn't work that way.

The best kind of design isn't necessarily an object, a space, or a structure: it's a process- dynamic and adaptable.

The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process.

A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change.

Self-knowledge is not the knowledge of a dead self, self-knowledge is the knowledge of the process of the self. It is an alive phenomenon. The self is not a thing, it is an event, it is a process. Never think in terms of things, the self is not there inside you just like a thing waiting in your room. The self is a process: changing, moving, arriving at new altitudes, moving into new planes, going deeper into new depths. Each moment much work is going on and the only way to encounter this self is to encounter it in relationship.

Theological reflection takes place within history, but the history within which it takes place is an ongoing, open-ended process.

The frontier is not merely a dramatic imagery but a very real process, indeed the basic socio-technical process that informs the experience of certain people and countries. As a process, it is dynamic and essentially progressive, although fraught with problems of its own, as is every other dimension of human life.

The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.

A creative project is a moving target. You never end up where you start.

The living language is like a cowpath: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it according to their whims or their needs. From daily use, the path undergoes change. A cow is under no obligation to stay

It's always been an ebb and flow of interest and energy.

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.

The action is in the interaction.

In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.

History does not produce definitive answers for all time. It is a process.

You must never aspire to 'finish' a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary process.

All my other movies have the same process. Same approach. Same amount of changes. Everything. Things being made up on the fly. Changing things around. Firing and recasting. Constantly, constantly, in chronological sequence, not really knowing how this is going to end up. That is the only dogmatic approach I take towards everything.