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Quotes About Flow

La corriente lenta arrastra basura, excrementos y espumas
~ Jorge Franco
Mirar el río hecho de tiempo y agua y recordar que el tiempo es otro río, saber que nos perdemos como el río y que los rostros pasan como el agua.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river that carries me away, but I am the river
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Herakliti thote se njeriu nuk lahet kurre dy here ne te njejtin lume. Ne nuk lahemi kurre ne te njejtin lume, sepse ujerat e tij nderrojne. Akoma me e tmerrshme eshte se ne nuk jemi me pak ujore se lumi. Sa here qe lexojme nje liber, libri ndryshon, ngjyrimi i fjaleve te tij eshte tjeter. Sepse librat jane mbrujtur me te shkuar.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Kungs, mana atmi?a ir k? notekgr?vis.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Be a surfer. Watch the ocean. Figure out where the big waves are breaking and adjust accordingly.
~ 37Signals
No prince, how great soever, begets his predecessors, and the noblest rivers are not navigable to the fountain.
~ A Marvell
Ah, I think that nothing in the world vanishes utterly—nothing—not only what is said, but what is thought. All our deeds and words and thoughts are little streams, trickling springs underground.
~ A. I. Kuprin
By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, "There is no hurry. We shall get there some day." But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.
~ A.A. Milne
They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come.
~ A.A. Milne
It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come." -Winnie-the-Pooh
~ A.A. Milne
Everything lives by movement, everything is maintained by equilibrium, and harmony results from the analogy of contraries; this law is the form of forms.
~ Éliphas Lévi
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
~ Aaron Copland
Music must always flow, for that is part of its very essence, but the creation of that continuity and flow--that long line-- constitutes the be-all and end-all of every composer's existence.
~ Aaron Copland
The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.
~ Abraham Lincoln
there's no going back; time and water move on relentlessly.
~ Abraham Verghese
Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection. —Rabindranath Tagore
~ Abraham Verghese
Anywhere people lived memory collected like sediment on the bed of a river, dropping from the flow of time to become fixed in the places time ran over
~ Adam Haslett
For a finite-size flow system to persist in time (to live), its configuration must evolve in such a way that provides easier access to the currents that flow through it.
~ Adrian Bejan
we move together like underwater plants
~ Adrienne Rich
I'm drawn to the path of least resistance.
~ Jeff Bridges
I've always been a person with patience, and I don't like to force things.
~ Harry Shum, Jr.
My approach to writing rhymes went hand in hand with the music. I'd try to make different rhythms with my rhymes on the track by tripping up patterns, using multi-syllable words, different syncopations. I'd try to be like a different instrument.
~ Rakim
When I'm the happiest, my desk is not neat. It has lots of pens and the books I love. It gets messy when I'm in the flow. So many houses are so neat.
~ Alexandra Stoddard