Quotes About Flow

Tell me, McFadden, what do you think of our beloved Mr. Chamberlain?" Mac didn't care for such direct questions. All his adult life had been spent in the mentality of the gulag, never openly complaining, always seeming to conform, never risking a row. Perhaps that's why he had agreed to marry, not so much to avoid disappointing the lady but more because it was the simplest way to fit into the flow of things.

Cash Cows: Businesses with high relative share in low-growth markets will produce healthy cash flow, which can be used to fund other, developing businesses.

A good life is like good jazz: it has rhythm.

With infinite wisdom and care your life is constantly sustained because Nature flows through you.

I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life.

1. Balance 2. Momentum 3. Steady swing center 4. Relaxed arms 5. Rhythm

However, even the healthiest human heart skips a beat now and then, and so does music.

What makes spirals so prevalent in cosmic design? They are the purest expression of moving energy. Wherever energy is left to move on its own it resolves into spirals. The universe moves and transforms in spirals, never straight lines.

There is no such thing as magic. It is a word. A silly, foolish, overused word. There is only your aura...or the Chinese have a better word for it: qi. A life force. An energy. This is the energy that flows within you. It can be shaped, molded, directed.

Walsh, sitting within sight of the Oval Office, was located at something like the ground zero of the information flow between the president and his staff. As Trump's primary scheduler, her job was to ration the president's time and organize the flow of information to him around the priorities that the White House had set. In this, Walsh became the effective middle person among the three men working hardest to maneuver the president—Bannon, Kushner, and Priebus.

Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own Affairs than we.

Keep things flowing in the direction of accomplishing your goals and nourishing your soul. (Chapter 4)

I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.

Relax, nothing is in your control, as the collective destiny unfolds. Release all handles and flow with ease, let stress and tensions neutralize, MickeyMize. Share this for order, balance and harmony.

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

Toda ley es una ley de ritmo, y el ritmo es el amor.

Nocturno el rio de las horas fluye desde su manatial que es el manana eterno ... [Nocturnal the river of hours flows/from its source, the eternal tomorrow ... ]

You know that what you need to do is possible to do, even though difficult, and sense of time disappears. You forget yourself. You feel part of something larger.

it was found that the more often people report reading books, the more flow experiences they claim to have, while the opposite trend was found for watching television.

The optimal state of inner experience is one in which there is order in consciousness. This happens when psychic energy—or attention—is invested in realistic goals, and when skills match the opportunities for action. The pursuit of a goal brings order in awareness because a person must concentrate attention on the task at hand and momentarily forget everything else.

The mark of a person who is in control of consciousness is the ability to focus attention at will, to be oblivious to distractions, to concentrate for as long as it takes to achieve a goal, and not longer. And the person who can do this usually enjoys the normal course of everyday life.

The second reason creativity is so fascinating is that when we are involved in it, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.

One of the most frequently mentioned dimensions of the flow experience is that, while it lasts, one is able to forget all the unpleasant aspects of life.

The flow experience, like everything else, is not "good" in an absolute sense. It is good only in that it has the potential to make life more rich, intense, and meaningful; it is good because it increases the strength and complexity of the self.