Quotes About Flow

Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes there solution. Within this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.

We only have to dance to the rhythm of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Water enters the dark sewer grates with no fear

No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

Most songs I write are spur-of-the-moment-type things. I have to be spontaneous. If not, songwriting can bore me. There is no pre-design or idea of what I am going to do when I go into the studio. It's all like that for me. I could go in and write two or three songs in an eight-hour session. You can't over-think songs. You just can't.

Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.

To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.

90 percent of the records I make are spontaneous.

I used to do three or four songs a day, just write them - boom, boom, boom, and done - because of how spontaneous I was.

Magic happens when everything is spontaneous.

I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.

Generally, I wouldnt spend a lot of time on a solo. Id try to catch something out of the air spontaneously.

Let the market, not politicians, determine the flow of rice, oil and other commodities. Lower, more stable prices will ensue.

See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.

I just used to back my instincts and go with the flow. Lately, I've realised that once you play at the highest level you've got to take that maturity to another stage.

In France, disco was an artistic progression that might not have had the same social stakes. Also, the language barriers - like with hip-hop, in France, the focus is more on the personality, of the flow of the music, rather than the lyrics themselves.

The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.

A great symphony is a man-made Mississippi down which we irresistibly flow from the instant of our leave-taking to a long forseen destination.

So different, this man And this woman: A stream flowing In a field.

Life flows on over death as water closes over a stone dropped into a pool. ... Fate is certain; death is certain; but the courage and nobility of men and women matter more than these.

Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.

When I fear I have done wrong, when I look to those who are less wise, when I forget transcendence, and kneel in the meanings of colour and shadow, when I tell lies to my soul, I seek out water, I follow it's charm - a river, a steam, a lake with its springs and currents. See how it offers life as it flawlessly flows and forms to the shape of this world, the contours of the land, the urge of earth, hear how it sings under the sun, of endless evaporation.

Life is beautiful if you flow with its natural beauty. Resistance makes it ugly.