Quotes About Flow

When you cut a film, certain scenes fall away and don't fit into the shape of the movie.

When you score, you don't think about what you will do.

When I sit down to write, I know everything I need to know... I start writing, and within 30 seconds or 60 seconds, I'm watching a movie. I'm not making this stuff up; the characters are acting it out,and I'm just writing it down.

The whole idea of doing an album is overwhelming sometimes. But, I get inspired when I get inspired and that's when it flows easily.

It can kind of screw up things if you're trying to overwork something.

While I live a busy life, the pace ebbs and flows.

When it comes to pace, we know that I don't have a problem.

The songs come along at their own pace when they are ready.

I work at my own pace, and I work really well when I am not running around.

We want to always play with pace on offence.

The experienced writer says to the anguished novice: 'Just do it; get something, anything, on to the screen or page, just establish a flow of words, and criticise them later.' You give this advice but can't always take it.

If a scene is three pages long, quite often people break it up and do a page, say 'cut' then move on to the next bit, they do it in cuts. I don't really like doing that; I like to go through it all in one organic run, then give notes afterward. A little bit more like theater.

People think that when you're connected with other people it's more painful. The opposite is true. When you're connected to the river you have despair, but you also have joy, and there's a flow in the river.

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

Sometimes the songs just come to me. I don't sit down to write like you'd sit down to make a pair of boots.

I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words are clunky; the scene is not coming across right. So frustrating. And there are days where it keeps flowing. Open the floodgates, and there it is. Pages and pages coming. Where the hell does this all come from? I don't know.

Nature ever flows, never stands still.

No: what I have tried to remember, and occasionally achieved, is that sense of handing myself over to the moment I was in, trusting that what had brought me there would carry me through, allowing things to transpire not with effort, but with something like ease, even grace.

Da deres energi på denne måde ikke frit kan strømme udad, føler de sig glædes- og kraftesløse, og oplever som følge heraf verden som overvældende. Især i udåndingens øjeblik, som ellers ville passe til ubeskyttet given-slip, koncentrerer de sig krampagtigt om at beskytte sig selv.

Attaining a state of flow can be quite rare because there are many barriers to freeing our minds. Csikszentmihalyi identifies negative forms of perfectionism, fear, self-doubt, and self-censoring as primary obstacles to flow.

Time perspective is the often nonconscious personal attitude that each of us holds toward time and the process whereby the continual flow of existence is bundled into time categories that help to give order, coherence, and meaning to our lives.

The fastest way to write is to pretend you have all the time in the world.

Livet är rörelse.

When a leaf falls from a tree, when a river flows to the sea, when a bee flits from flower to flower, it happens without "action" or "doing." Nature is simply being. In the same way, human beings should simply be.