Quotes About Flow

When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.

When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make something that I feel like making. Only after a piece of music is done does my frontal cortex allow me to organize what might be trying to come out of my subconscious.

I'm not afraid of just cranking it out and seeing what comes out of my subconscious. Because I don't always know what I'm feeling. I do a lot of rewriting later. But that first blast feels like a spigot - like it's coming from somewhere else.

I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.

Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow.

Everything happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

What the river was showing her now was that she could flow beyond the brokenness, redeem herself, and fuse once more.

prince of those Whose lore in words of wisdom flows. Whose constant care and chief delight

If you're being swept away, off somewhere, then why count the pebbles on the shore; they're on the shore, after all.

Movement is the song of the body.

The sand in the hourglass runs from one compartment to the other, marking the passage of moments with something constant and tangible. If you watch the flowing sand, you might see time itself riding the granules. Contrary to popular opinion, time is not an old white-haired man, but a laughing child. And time sings.

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

I'm interested in natural growth patterns, and the beautiful forms that only nature creates. How that flows through me and how that comes out is what I'm trying to understand.

We are like artists by nature, constantly we're trying to add beauty to movements.

I think the best things happen when you just let go and see what comes in. I find that that's always the most satisfying.

Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the pen must come in to tighten it up.

The best way to live / is to be like water / For water benefits all things / and goes against none of them.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

We agree [with the President of Mexico] on the importance of ending the illegal flow of drugs, cash, guns, and people across our border, and to put the cartels out of business.

But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

When we stop resisting and let the weather simply flow through us, we can live our lives completely. It's up to us.

The Facts of Life: Impermanence