Quotes About Flow

Time doesn't click on and on at the stroke. It comes and goes in waves and folds like water; it flutters and sifts like dust, rises, billows, falls back on itself. When a wave breaks, the water is not moving. The swell has traveled great distances but only the energy is moving, not the waves. Perhaps time moves through us and not through it.

Go with what is. Use what happens.

I didn't know it consciously at that point, but I had stepped into one of the most important lessons that New Orleans offers: Go with what is. Use what happens.

She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.

To wit: actions, like sounds, divide the flow of time into beats.[...]The quality of a man's life depends on the rhyhmic structure he is able to impose upon the input and output of energy.

Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

If you surrender to the wind you can ride it.

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't try to write through it, to force it. Many do but that won't work. Just wait, it will come.

How loose the silk. How quick the jailed up flavor ran free.

He punawai kahe wale ke aloha. Love is a spring that flows freely.

All of life is change. When we learn to stop fighting it, that's when we can start to be happy.

The leaping of one fish would never disturb the flow of the river.

That's what happens when you're really concentrating. Time stands still. Time flies!

Sometimes we're bitching and complaining about shit we can't fucking change. Make the best of those moments. Complete those moments. And after completing them, move on rather than sitting there and letting it fuck up your day. That's my suggestion. Be like water: allow, adapt, and keep moving.

To achieve Operational Excellence, management has to coach, guide, teach, and instill the concept of getting rid of the use of management in supporting the flow of product to the customer

The right use of kaizen in Operational Excellence is using kaizen to eliminate the need for management in the flow of product to the customer.

Since it is the last scarcity, wherever attention flows, money will follow.

Time is like a river. It flows one direction, But with a little force you can go back. But like a river, Everything you do has a ripple.

Diriger, selon Murdo, c'est faciliter le cours de la vie, pas lui faire barrage.

At the right temperatures, geologic faults allow for movement, ductility, flow. Earthquakes happen when weaknesses cannot be expressed. "And communities which are rigid, which do not take into account the weak points of the community—people who are in difficulty—tend to be communities that do not evolve. When they do evolve, it's generally by a very strong commotion, a revolution.

This is certainly not to say that what we call the unconscious is identical with God or is set up in his place. It is simply the medium from which religious experience seems to flow. As to what the further cause of such experience may be, the answer to this lies beyond the range of human knowledge. Knowledge of God is a transcendental problem.

Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.