Quotes About Flow

When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and see to my astonishment that three hours have passed.

I was reading an article in the 'New York Times;' it talked about being in the zone, and being in the zone you're so focused that time ceases to exist. It's when you think, 'Oh, I've been doing this for five hours and didn't even know it.' It's the difference between hard work and going, '12 o'clock, not moving.'

With me, I record so much that I just get in the zone.

Long track is more of a symphony... You're out there and you want to get in the zone.

I get into a zone where I'm really in my own world when I make music.

Aang hits the Avatar-state and he has this unlimited power. He enters into a flow state, you know, he's in the zone. That's how it feels for me sometimes when I'm fighting.

That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.

I wake up, and I'm in the zone... My performance is the continuation of my life.

For me, great jazz records really feel like everyone in the room is playing together in a zone - and all the musicians are completely in sync with each other.

I actually often write about writing music and being in that zone.

Even when I haven't played in a while, I can sit down and start with a chord, and just drop into it. It's like this tunnel I go into. The zone is where I want to live.

Work for work's sake doesn't thrill me, but when I'm in the zone, I'm creative, and the expression is free.

It sometimes happens that you come out of a scene, and you don't even know what happened. It's like you're in the zone.

When I'm working, I don't think about other things. I go into a zone.

I've been so in the zone, you don't know where you are or where you're at.

Everybody knows when I get in the zone... I just kind of go crazy. I have a lot of fun.

If you can't fight, and you can't flee, flow.

Today I know that I cannot control the ocean tides. I can only go with the flow.... When I struggle and try to organize the Atlantic to my specifications, I sink. If I flail and thrash and growl and grumble, I go under. But if I let go and float, I am borne aloft.

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

Ride the horse in the direction that it's going.

He who attempts to resist the wave is swept away, but he who bends before it abides.

One does not have to stand again the gale. One yields and becomes part of the wind.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

We are the wire, God is the current. Our only power is to let the current pass through us.