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Processes don't do work, people do -- John Seely Brown
Management Challenges to Implementing Agile Processes in Traditional Development Organizations, -- Barry Boehm
Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought. -- Charles Spurgeon
I co-taught a seminar called Small Group Processes with my professor. I learned so much from it, so much about myself, about groups, how this stuff works. I bring all that stuff to teaching now. -- Paul Beatty
It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable. -- Rudy Rucker
Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes. -- George Henry Lewes
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated. -- Bertolt Brecht
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures. -- Tom Peters
I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes. -- Maynard James Keenan
One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody. -- Alvin Ailey
Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order. -- George H. Mead
The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes. -- Wilhelm Wundt
The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real. -- Muhammad Iqbal
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done. -- Ratan Tata
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point. -- Saint Augustine
Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box. -- Adam Savage
In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays. -- Claude Nicollier
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with. -- Woodrow Wilson
The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient. -- Steve Jobs
Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided. -- Paracelsus
When a company identifies how to integrate the processes needed to give the consumer a sense of job completion, it can blow away the competition. A product is easy to copy, but experiences are very hard to replicate. -- Clayton M. Christensen
Little white lies are told by humans all the time. Indeed, lying is often how we get through each day in a happy little bubble. We spend time and energy rationalizing our own behaviors, beliefs and decision-making processes. -- Barry Ritholtz
The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption. -- Clayton Christensen
The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can't even spell. I don't even have a high school diploma. I'm smart, but you can't prove it on paper. -- Ron White
For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine. -- A. S. Byatt
Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes. -- David Chalmers
Videogames make you feel like you're actually doing something. Your brain processes the tiered game achievements as real-life achievements. Every time you get to the next level, hot jets of reward chemical coat your brain in a lathery foam, and it seems like you're actually accomplishing stuff. -- Chris Hardwick
I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character. -- Vin Diesel
The particular aspect of time that I'm interested in is the arrow of time: the fact that the past is different from the future. We remember the past but we don't remember the future. There are irreversible processes. There are things that happen, like you turn an egg into an omelet, but you can't turn an omelet into an egg. -- Sean M. Carroll
The creative processes are so mysterious. -- Jimmy Webb
Life and 'Mind' are systemic processes. -- Gregory Bateson
Trust processes as well as people. -- Andy Hargreaves
Judgments of adequacy involve social comparison processes -- Albert Bandura
Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes. -- Lance Secretan
Geoengineering means changing the Earth's fundamental large-scale processes. -- Graciela Chichilnisky
I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies. -- Marc Newson
All natural processes are long processes and they last. -- Rachel Naomi Remen
Business models change. As technology processes, business models change. -- Marsha Blackburn
Consensus processes starve innovative design by eating the resource. -- Fred Brooks
Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes. -- Chad Harbach
The principles applied in economic processes are general social principles. -- Thomas Sowell
I cannot really be responsible for other people's thought processes. -- Kim Basinger
The two basic processes of education are knowing and valuing. -- Robert J. Havighurst
Life is bigger than processes and overflows and dwarfs them. -- Dale Carnegie
Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things. -- Robert Smithson
In our universal experience unintelligent material processes do not create life -- Philip Johnson
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes -- William James
Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World. -- William Irwin Thompson
Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes. -- Rex Stout
We love your adherence to democratic principles and to democratic processes. -- Ferdinand Marcos
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True optimization is the revolutionary contribution of modern research to decision processes. -- George Dantzig
Curiosity allows your unique "owned processes" to draw you toward creative conclusions. -- Robert Genn
Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes. -- Boris Sidis
Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings. -- Vanessa Redgrave
Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings -- Vanessa Redgrave
Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes! -- Salvador Dali
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. -- John von Neumann
To me, body and mind are different aspects of specific biological processes. -- Antonio Damasio
Creativity is a catchall term for a variety of distinct thought processes. -- Jonah Lehrer
Free choice is one of the highest of all the mental processes. -- Maria Montessori
For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me. -- Alison Bechdel
We should work on our process, not the outcome of our processes. -- W. Edwards Deming
Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes. -- John Cage
Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally -- Marshall McLuhan
Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally. -- Marshall McLuhan
Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes. -- Thomas A. Edison
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B. -- Ambrose Bierce
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Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity. -- Victor J. Stenger
Social embedded business processes that solve concrete needs are key to enterprise social collaboration. -- Marc Benioff
Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. -- Ernst Mayr
Quality planning consists of developing the products and processes required to meet customer's needs -- Joseph M. Juran
Complex regulation in place of simple-rules capitalism disrupts market processes and corrupts business incentives. -- Robert L. Bradley, Jr.
One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us. -- Philip Zimbardo
To the rationally minded the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work backwards -- Frances G. Wickes
What's important is not just to develop the technology; it's to develop the processes. -- Hal Abelson
The processes of growth are gradual, bearing fruit in a decade, not a day. -- John F. Kennedy
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing. -- Brian Eno
[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization. -- Manmohan Singh
If I send out positive messages, it will set a chain of healthy thought processes. -- Persis Khambatta
The studio keeps notes on the details of editions and production processes and the like. -- Patricia Piccinini
Editing and selectivity are processes that provide the first steps in determining and conveying content. -- Gerald Brommer
To achieve peace, it is crucial to eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy that prevents peace processes from advancing. -- Widad Akrawi
The biggest opportunity for big companies has come by far in the digitization of internal processes. -- Jack Welch
Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes. -- Rahul Gandhi
Thinking like a designer can transform the way you develop products services, processes and even strategy -- Tim Brown
What looks like resistance in many cases is rational responses to incentives and ingrained resource-allocation processes. -- Scott D. Anthony
I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate. -- Rollo May
I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature. -- Richard Ernst
Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved? -- Oliver Heaviside
Learn to know yourself... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings. -- Nelson Mandela
You must look at the processes of motion in the macrocosmos and microcosmos accurately, and copy them! -- Viktor Schauberger
Systems and processes are essential to keep the crusade going, but they should not replace the crusade. -- Simon Sinek
The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems. -- Myron Tribus
The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception. -- Gregory Bateson
When people start talking about their bowel movements, they are inexorable as the processes of which they speak. -- William S. Burroughs
Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals. -- Edward Thorndike
Heat may be generated and destroyed by certain processes, and this shows that heat is not a substance. -- James Clerk Maxwell
I acknowledge that I do not understand the processes of creation, but I accept the fact of it. -- Thomas S. Monson
Most processes leave out the stuff no one wants to talk about: magic, intuition and leaps of faith. -- Michael Bierut
I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming events take place. -- Rufus Jones
Write in a disciplined manner, but write in a way that is natural to the individual's thought processes. -- Donald McKay
The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I believe babies are born as innovative personalities... But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. -- Jay Wright Forrester
One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past. -- Lawrence Lessig
I have nothing against Bosniaks/Islam, but it is the desire to direct political processes that is completely unacceptable. -- Milorad Dodik
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government. -- John W. Gardner
To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes... -- Christian Nestell Bovee
If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind. -- Peter Wessel Zapffe
By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes. -- Nate Silver
Consistent alignment of capabilities and internal processes with the customer value proposition is the core of any strategy execution. -- Robert S. Kaplan
Millions of human vermin swarm sweating along the night-arched cavernous roads. (Happily rapid chemical processes will disintegrate them all. -- Richard Aldington
There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation. -- Alain Badiou
The brain processes information using 100,000 times less energy than we do right now with this computer technology that we have. -- Kwabena Boahen
Procurement policies of all of the major parastatals, it is a very important element of that processes that will continue. -- Thabo Mbeki
Most corporations have human-resources processes that involve discussions with your manager, performance evaluations, calibrations for performance and potential succession planning. -- Denise Morrison

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