Evoking Process Quotes & Sayings

During the intensive rocket bombing of London in World War II, it was generally believed that the bombing could not be random because a map of the hits revealed conspicuous gaps. Some suspected that German spies were located in the unharmed areas. A careful statistical analysis revealed that the distribution of hits was typical of a random process - and typical as well in evoking a strong impression that it was not random. "To the untrained eye," Feller remarks, "randomness appears as regularity or tendency to cluster. — Daniel Kahneman

I wanted to resign from the planet, not just music. It stopped being fun with success. Money got in the way. Everybody got greedy, including me. Fear set in. I got miserable when I became a commodity. — Artie Shaw

There is a fine line I have to walk throughout the writing process in a novel. It is this line between drama and melodrama, and it is this line between evoking genuine emotional power and being manipulative. — Nicholas Sparks

Abstract design is all right - for wallpaper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity or terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. — Robert A. Heinlein

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration. — Neil Diamond

Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain! — William Blake

I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken — Bob Dylan

Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way. — Barry McGuigan

Nutty people are always writing me. I always think I must be on some nutty mailing list. — Andy Warhol

The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need. — Gottfried Leibniz