Quotes About Flow

The passing time is painful. I have lost the art of moving simply, naturally, within it. I am swept back against its flow. Angry, vindictive, it pierces me all the time, all the time with its spikes.

Do not force things.... Can you afford to be careless? So then, flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free; stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. How else can you carry out your task? It is best to leave everything to work naturally, though this is not easy.21

Just stay at the center of the circle and let all things take their course."68

Officers came and went and were never a part of daily life.

Try to improve it and you ruin it. Try to hold it and you lose it.

Just do what you do, and then leave: such is the Way of heaven.

And, in fact, from his face, from the austere and sublime acts of the Vicar of Christ, torrents of light and goodness flow.

The physical board had a huge psychological effect compared to anything we got from the electronic tracking tool we used at Microsoft. By attending the standup each day, team members were exposed to a sort of time-lapse photography of the flow of work across the board. Blocked work items were marked with pink tickets, and the team became much more focused on issue resolution and maintaining flow. Productivity jumped dramatically.

Cumulative Flow Diagram

David J. Anderson

The Value of Kanban is Counter-Intuitive

For me art is a spontaneous journey on the crest of the Tao's wave

Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.

So much as one person with a contrary spirit to God is enough to affect all the meetings - that the revival fire did not flow until that person broke and confessed, or the Lord removed him.

God descends to the humble as waters flow down from the hills into the valleys.

When we stop playing God, God can play through us.

It's amazing, 'cause sometimes when we're onstage, I feel like somebody's just moving the pieces. I'm just going, 'God, we don't have any control over this.' And that's magic.

And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness; Round our restlessness, His rest.

When you are doing God's will everything seems to happen without much effort or many obstacles.

Because there is no ego, God can flow through you; great creativity becomes possible.

God is the water, and you are the faucet.

The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.

The bandstand is an incredible space. It is really a sacred space. One of the things that is really sacred about it is that you have no opportunity to think about the future, or the past.

The way a stream is connected to its source, the same way our souls are connected to their source.