Quotes About Flow

My bottom line is that I think Ridley Scott is one of the greatest visual artists of our time and I feel very privileged that he wants to work with me, so I go with that flow.

When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.

That's why people who seek out group flow often join startups or work for themselves. Serial entrepreneurs keep starting new business as much for the flow experience, as for the additional success.

One must work with time and not against it.

Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won't keep reading your work.

That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.

I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well.

We work very, very hard to find that fine line where location is meaningful enough to be interesting to an advertiser but not so intrusive that it interrupts the creative flow of the show.

The best work flows from us effortlessly. Allow the gifts of spirit to come to you.

I work on multiple projects at a time because it keeps me from getting writer's block.

You don't force change; you just open yourself to its possibilities and let it work through you.

I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.

Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself.

If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work.

Sometimes when you start writing a song, you dont know where theyre going to lead you. You just kind of follow the ideas that come in. Its all kind of stream of consciousness. Thats whats so fascinating about songwriting. Its kind of magical.

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.

Quite simply, federal laws already on the books aimed at stopping the flow of illegal immigration must be enforced. Furthermore, states must be given the resources necessary to confront the problem, which includes strengthening the border patrol.

Everything is changing all the time, and I'm not going to stress out and spend my entire time chasing something that ultimately doesn't exist.

I take things in stride, go with the flow.

We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared.

I'm not always trying to strike out guys. It just kind of happens sometimes.

Whatever strikes I need to throw, I need to let them go.

I think good artists know when they're on a roll, and they recognize when lightning is striking. It's a very fortunate thing to have that inspiration and not to overanalyze it or mess with it; you just follow it if you love what you do.

The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.