Quotes About Rhythms

As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs...The way I write is who I am, or have become...

As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs.

The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.

I have some rhythms on my computers, that are actually called "trance", they go from 1-30 or 40. They're grooves that come on the synth. If I could somehow use them, I would.

La frénésie qu'est devenu le travail agricole est comme le signe d'une discordance grave avec les rythmes de l'univers. Les tracteurs vont et viennent. Ils exigent des terres aussi planes et vastes que possible. Ils répandent des poisons violents afin, paraît-il, que les hommes puissent manger. Quelques-uns ont en effet mangé, puis ont trop mangé, et leur vie est devenue une seule et unique préoccupation lancinante et triste : comment digérer ? (p.217)

That night, the sky poured out such torrents that the city was a drum set, every surface a source of rhythms, pavements and windows and canvas awnings, street signs and parked cars, Dumpsters throbbing like tom-toms, garbage-can lids swishing as the wind swirled bursts of rain in imitation of a drummer brush-stroking the batter head of a snare.

hid a smile at the mention of wool waulking. Alone among the Highland farms, I was sure, the women of Lallybroch waulked their wool not only to the old traditional chants but also to the rhythms of Molière and Piron.

A writer's work has to take account of many rhythms: Vulcan's and Mercury's, a message of urgency obtained by dint of patient and meticulous adjustments and an intuition so instantaneous that, when formulated, it acquires the finality of something that could never have been otherwise. But it is also the rhythm of time that passes with no other aim than to let feelings and thoughts settle down, mature, and shed all impatience or ephemeral contingency.

Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.

The problem is that our corporate, government, and education cultures are configured for the 75 or 80 percent of people who are larks or third birds. Owls are like left-handers in a right-handed world—forced to use scissors and writing desks and catcher's mitts designed for others. How they respond is the final piece of the puzzle in divining the rhythms of the day.

Each of us has a "chronotype"—a personal pattern of circadian rhythms that influences our physiology and psychology.

Even "sophisticated economic agents acting in real and highly incentivized settings are influenced by diurnal rhythms in the performance of their professional duties.

Internal Time: Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired (2012) By Till Roenneberg If you're going to read one book about chronobiology, make it this one. You'll learn more from this smart, concise work—organized into twenty-four chapters to represent the twenty-four hours of the day—than from any other single source.

Sighs, the rhythms of our heartbeats, contractions of childbirth, orgasms, all flow into time just as pendulum clocks placed next to one another soon beat in unison. Fireflies in a tree flash on and off as one. The sun comes up and it goes down. The moon waxes and wanes and usually the morning paper hits the porch at six thirty-five.

With gentle melodies and passive rhythms, neurological pathways open to receive the flow of positive energy.

for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in the Ghetto -- and they suffered the loss of nature like a phantom-limb pain, an amputation that scrambled the body's rhythms, starved the senses, and made basic ideas about the world impossible for children to fathom.

The first private clocks appeared in the sixteenth century. Thenceforward, time was an abstract measure separated from the traditional rhythms of life and nature.

Estoy inscrito en un gimnasio. Tengo una credencial con mi fotografía... camino dos cuadras, la distancia que separa mi casa de ese gimnasio moderno, lleno de gente optimista (que me irrita) y estremecido por aquellos ritmos vocingleros que escupen los parlantes (que me irritan más aún).

Without hope, people become desperate to escape the pain. They seldom see the rhythms in their own lives, how dark phases come before new beginnings.

All living things respond to the same 24-hour rhythm, in tandem with the Earth's rotation. Halberg coined the terms "chronobiology"—the influence of time and certain periodic cycles on biological function—and "circadian" (from Latin circa = about; and dies = day) for daily biological rhythms. He created the Chronobiology Laboratories at the University of Minnesota and became known

Jesus doesn't participate in the rat race. He's into the slower rhythms of life, like abiding, delighting, and dwelling—all words that require us to trust Him with our place and our pace. Words used to describe us being with Him.

Life is filled with rhythms-day and night, hot and cold, summer and winter, spring and fall, cloudy and clear. Likewise in a relationship, men and women have their own rhythms and cycles.

As your child's biological rhythms evolve for day sleep, your general goal is to synchronize your soothing-to-sleep activities with her internal timing mechanism for sleep. This is no different from being sensitive to her need to be fed or changed. Many

Remember, late bedtimes usually cause less night sleep. In addition, sleeping out of phase with the body's natural rhythms, as shift workers do or as travelers do when crossing time zones, is as unhealthy as jet lag syndrome.