Quotes About Flow

Life is endless, not punctuated by nights, days, months and years - for all are one, in the eternal stream.

All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river.

Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium.

Life happens whilst you're planning other things.

Life is what's going on while your making other plans.

How can a man's life keep it's course If he will not let it flow, Those who flow as life flows know They need no other force: They feel no wear, they feel no tear, They need no mending, no repair.

Because he is a living divinity, when he acts, the universe acts.

Life NEVER slows down.

In life everything is continually in flux.

Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.

Life is a constant back-and-forth. We take a breath in and then we breathe out. The same is true for the culture as a whole.

I'll let life take me where it will.

Chi," which he defines as the "force which pervades the universe from which reality arises.

Life calls the tune, we dance.

you are a river rock and belong in a stream - not here in this upper room sinking in my bed...

My happiness is like this sand: I let it run out of my hand.

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

Knowing how polarities work, the wise leader does not push to make things happen, but allows process to unfold on its own. The leader teaches by example rather than by lecturing others on how they ought to be. The leader knows that constant interventions will block the group's process. The leader does not insist that things come out a certain way. The wise leader does not seek a lot of money or a lot of praise. Nevertheless, there is plenty of both.

Much water goeth by the millThat the miller knoweth not of.

The tide tarrieth no man.

Mi escritura era muy apretada, como nerviosa. Las palabras discurrían en líneas titubeantes. como un campo de trigo recorrido por un soplo de viento.

La máxima desviación de una operación precedente pasara a ser el punto inicial de la operación siguiente.

Ford's starting point was that the key for effective production is to concentrate on improving the overall flow of products through the operations. His efforts to improve flow were so successful that, by 1926, the lead time from mining the iron ore to having a completed car composed of more than 5,000 parts, on the train ready for delivery, was 81 hours!3 Eighty years later, no car manufacturer in the world has been able to achieve, or even come close, to such a short lead time.

Flow means that inventories in the operation are moving. When inventory is not moving, inventory accumulates. Accumulation of inventory takes up space. Therefore, an intuitive way to achieve better flow is to limit the space allowed for inventory to accumulate. To achieve better flow, Ford limited the space allotted for work-in-process between each two work centers.