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Quotes About Rhythm

allowing life's natural rhythm to flow unimpeded through you.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
Just as you breathe in and breathe out, there is a time for being ahead and a time for being behind; a time for being in motion and a time for being at rest; a time for being vigorous and a time for being exhausted; a time for being safe and a time for being in danger.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.
~ Charles Kennedy
To dance is to live!
~ Charles Schulz
...See Hieracium's various tribe, Of plumy seed and radiate flowers, The course of Time their blooms describe, And wake or sleep appointed hours....
~ Charlotte Turner Smith
Arteries are the body's thundering poetry.
~ Terri Guillemets
What colors are the rhythms of your soul?
~ Terri Guillemets
I hear the heartthrob of time in my veins.
~ Terri Guillemets
Do not watch too closely cogs in the wheel of time. Observe their passing as the rhythm of a poem — not clicks of the abacus.
~ Terri Guillemets
Wednesdays are like Mondays in the middle of the week!
~ Lee Fox Williams, unverified
...the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.
~ Mary McLeod Bethune
Thirty dayes hath November, April, June, and September, Twenty and eyght hath February alone, And all the rest thirty and one, But in the leape you must add one.
~ William Harrison, 1577
Thirty days has September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one, But February twenty-eight alone, Except in leap-year, once in four, When February has one day more.
~ Variant of the rhyme, c. 1840s
Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, All the rest have thirty one, Once short February's done.
~ Variant of the rhyme, c. 1970s
Thirty days has September, April, June, and November; When short February's done, All the rest have thirty-one.
~ Variant of the rhyme, c. 1970s
He's not so thick, said Reinhart. It's mainly a question of tempo.
~ HÃ¥kan Nesser
I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha!
~ Hal Sparks
He bantered us, challenged us, electrified us . . . At times his eloquence held us silent as images and some witty turn, some humorous phrase brought roars of applause. At times we cheered almost every sentence, like delegates at a political convention, At other moments we rose in our seats and yelled. There was something hypnotic in his rhythm and phrasing. His power over his auditors was absolute. {Garland's thoughts on the great Robert Ingersoll }
~ Hamlin Garland
to start your downswing, let your weight shift to your left foot while bringing your right elbow back down to your body.
~ Harvey Penick
We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself. In the cradle it in moving its little arms and legs in a certain rhythm. And when our music falls on the ears of an infant it is of the lowest character compared with the music it is accustomed to.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
A keen observation shows that the whole universe is a single mechanism working by the law of rhythm; the rise and fall of the waves, the ebb and flow of the tide, the waxing and waning of the moon, the sunrise and the sunset, the change of the seasons, the moving of the earth and of the planets, the whole cosmic system and the constitution of the entire universe are working under the law of rhythm. Cycles of rhythm, with major and minor cycles
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
All labor and toil, however hard and difficult, is made easy by the power of rhythm in some way or other. This idea opens to the thinker a means for a still deeper study of life.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Die Arbeit, welche ein/e Sufi als seine oder ihre heilige Pflicht ansieht, hat nichts mit einem bestimmten Glaubensbekenntnis zu tun und auch nichts mit einer bestimmten Religion. Es ist nur diese einfache Sache: im Rhythmus mit den Umständen des Lebens zu schwingen, und auf das Unendliche eingestimmt zu sein.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
The self is inflated, Then deflated, In a lemming rhythm of auto-destruction. Half a million auto-fatalities per annum. The fast-food-junk-death-road-show.
~ Heathcote Williams