I think there are lots of ways of leading very good lives and growing spiritually. This process of growth goes on whether we believe it or not.
The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
The Chief Whip's job is trying to make sure that the Government - and MPs elected as part of the governing party - deliver the promises that they were elected on. That's a healthy part of the democratic process.
When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.
Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.
The process of writing 'The Innovator's Dilemma' entailed the developing a new theory. My colleagues, students and I have been improving that theory, and adding others to it, since that time.
T.V.'s weird because it's both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.
If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it.
What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if you like, processes that information.
If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
I'm not so bothered by the audition process anymore; in fact, I use it. It's a time for the actor to actually get to the know the director and the producers a little bit, too.
I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
You have to relax, write what you write. It sounds easy but it's really, really hard. One of the things it took me longest to learn was to trust the writing process.
I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks.
[going through an identification process] Edna: Edna Mode... [laser guns point at Helen] Edna: ...and guest. [laser guns retract]
In 2008 we came perilously close to killing money, exposing in the process how out of date money's infrastructure has become.
Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do so. My conscience is clear.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.
But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that.
