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Quotes About Flow

Nae man can tether time or tide.
~ Robert Burns
The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.
~ Gore Vidal
The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past, nor the shadow of the future.
~ Hermann Hesse
Things take a long time, but when it's right things move fast.
~ James Blunt
The best songs just come unasked for. You don't have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs.
~ Jim Morrison
Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING.
~ Kenny Werner
THE TECHNIQUES OF the Art of Peace are neither fast nor slow, nor are they inside or outside.. They transcend time and space.
~ Morihei Ueshiba
Music is the art of sounds in the movement of time.
~ Ferruccio Busoni
I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following time's arrow I keep myself sane.
~ Jonathan Lethem
Our linear concept of time means nothing to nature.
~ Robert Lanza
When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon everything.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
Time goes from present to past.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
Innumerable actions are going on through us all the time. If we started counting them, we should never come to an end.
~ Vinoba Bhave
For a finite-size system to persist in time (to live), it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed currents that flow through it.
~ Adrian Bejan
The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
~ Adrian Tomine
We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving with them.
~ Arthur Golden
Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.
~ Bel Kaufman
moments bleed together, no span to time
~ Kami Garcia
Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it is time to play.
~ Kenny Werner
Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.
~ Pablo Picasso
I was just sort of moving through time.
~ Patty Duke
Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Subjective time flows forward, the phenomenal self is embedded into this flow, an inner history unfolds. That it is why it is not a bubble, but a tunnel: There is movement in time.
~ Thomas Metzinger