Best flow & running Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their run-off. Yet neither is the ultimate solution, simply because floods are caused by the flow of water downhill. If the hills are wooded, that flow is checked. If there is a swamp at the foot of the hills, the swamp sponges up most of the excess water, restores some of it to the underground water supply and feeds the remainder slowly into the streams. Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.”

“If a betting game among a certain number of participants I played long enough, eventually one player will have all the money. If there is any skill involved, it will accelerate the process of concentrating all the stakes in a few hands. Something like this happens in the market. There is a persistent overall tendency for equity to flow from the many to the few. In the long run, the majority loses. The implication for the trader is that to win you have to act like the minority. If you bring normal human habits and tendencies to trading, you'll gravitate toward the majority and inevitably lose.”

“I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another.”

World Running Earth Artist Energy Taught Red Flow Rounds France California Britain Japan Australia Veins Energy And Life

Book:Midsummer Snowballs

Source: Midsummer Snowballs

“It is often said that the progression from simple to complex runs counter to the normal statistics of chance that are formalized in the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Strictly speaking, we could avoid this criticism simply by insisting that the Second Law does not apply to living systems in the environment in which we find them. For the Second Law applies only when there is no overall flow of energy into or out of a system, whereas all living systems are sustained by a net inflow of energy.”

Doe Said Running Law Energy Chance Simple Environment Atheism Normal Flow Criticism Complexes Positive Atheism Statistics Progression Insisting Thermodynamics

Author:Jacob Bronowski

“Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.”

Ifs Made Running Past Life Is Doubt Judgment Flow Entrepreneur Series Data Insufficient

Book:The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

“More bounteous run rivers when the ice that locked their flow melts into their waters. And when fine natures relent, their kindness is swelled by the thaw.”

Running Water Kindness Fine Forgiveness Flow Rivers Ice Locked

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Water flows from high in the mountains Water runs deep in the Earth Miraculously, water comes to us, And sustains all life.”

Running Earth Water Mountain Flow

Book:The Energy of Prayer: How to Deepen Your Spiritual Practice: Easyread Large Bold Edition

Source: The Energy of Prayer: How to Deepen Your Spiritual Practice: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“The problem with water, though, is that the shortfalls don't show up until the very end. You can go on pumping unsustainably until the day you run out. Then all you have is the recharge flow, which comes from precipitation. This is not decades away, this is years away. We're already seeing huge shortages in China, where the Yellow River runs dry for part of each year. The Yellow River is the cradle of Chinese civilization. It first failed to reach the sea in 1972, and since 1985 it's run dry for part of each year. For 1997 it was dry for 226 days.”

Years Firsts Ends Shows Problem Running Water Seeing Sea Huge Goes On Civilization Flow Rivers Environmental China Decades Chinese Dry Yellow Cradle Shortage

Author:Lester R. Brown

“When you put a great big obstacle (your feeling of unworthiness), in front of a running stream, it's not like it's going to stop the flow of the divine force. The divine force will just go around your unworthiness and flow someplace else.”

Feelings Bigs Running Force Fronts Divine Flow Obstacles Streams

Author:Wayne Dyer

“One of my teachers once said that the way you know you're on the right path is that it works. Now, that doesn't mean you don't run into blocks and brick walls, but it does mean that you can find a way around them or find a way to change yourself or your project in order to find the flow again and have it work.”

Knows Way Mean Doe Said Running Order Path Teacher Wall Projects Flow Block Bricks Right Path Change Yourself Brick Wall

Author:James Redfield

“As we are brought into God's extraordinary kingdom through ordinary means, we are remade, no longer fashioned as competitors for commodities in a world of scarce resources, but as co-sharers with Christ in the circulation of gifts that flows outward from its source without running out.”

World Mean Running Christ Source Ordinary Resources Flow Extraordinary Kingdoms Commodity Competitors Scarce Circulation Scarce Resources

Author:Michael Horton

“Well, the first thing I do is I try to listen to whatever rapping is already on the track. I listen for cadence and melody to see how the track's already been written, and to make sure that whatever flow or flows I decide to run with, or patterns or melodies that I decide to put into the song, that they're not already in there. Then I try to see if there's a different part of the subject matter that I can talk about.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Wells I Can Different Matter Running Song Written Subjects Flow Patterns Track Rap Melody Subject Matter Cadence

Author:Bun B

“Nobody likes paying tolls. It's difficult to explain the concept of dynamic tolling, where the price varies to maintain the flow of traffic. And it's difficult to explain why highway widenings don't wind up helping commuters in the long run.”

Long Helping Running Difficult Wind Concepts Flow Likes Long Runs Traffic Highways Vary Tolls

Author:Robert James Thomson

“It is impossible to catch today; it flows out from our palms! It is impossible to catch tomorrow; it flows out from our palms! We cannot hold them; they constantly run away from us!”

Running Today Impossible Tomorrow Flow Running Away Palms

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“We were always focused on our profit and loss statement. But cash flow was not a regularly discussed topic. It was as if we were driving along, watching only the speedometer, when in fact we were running out of gas.”

Ifs Facts Running Loss Flow Profit Focused Driving Statements Gas Cash Topics Cash Flow Profit And Loss

Author:Michael Dell

“Love flies, runs, leaps for joy; it is free and unrestrained. Love gives all for all, resting in One who is highest above all things, from whom every good flows and proceeds. Love does not regard the gifts, but turns to the Giver of all good gifts. Love knows no limits, but ardently transcends all bounds. Love feels no burden, takes no account of toil, attempts things beyond its strength; love sees nothing as impossible, for it feels able to achieve all things. Love therefore does great things; it is strange and effective; while he who lacks love faints and fails.”

“Let's work and rest happily, abandon us to the course of life; let's run out the muddy and rotten water of the daily thinking and within the Void will flow the Gnosis and with it, the Joy for living.”

Thinking Running Joy Courses Water Flow Abandon Void Rotten Muddy Gnosis Course Of Life

Author:Samael Aun Weor

“I do yoga. People think it is easy, just touching your toes. It is hard. But I tend to go with my own flow. It's back to the movement thing. I feel it when I need to train, and I do what I feel I need to do. And when I am in the run-up to a fight, I am really at it the whole time, might be getting my weight down to meet the limit for the division. Soon I am moving up and I am going to be champion in the next one too.”

People Thinking Needs Feels Hard Whole Might Running Moving Fighting Next Easy My Own Movement Limits Yoga Flow Weight Train Champion Division Touching Toes The Next One Moving Up

Author:Conor McGregor

“New formalism is writing with language as flow, like the flow from a dam, running through a desert that has had no rain for decades.”

Writing Running Language Rain Flow Decades Desert Dams

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Just as that little opening in the Iron Curtain that Hungary created caused a flood of people out, and ultimately the beginning of the end of communism in Europe, if you could get refugee flows coming out of North Korea, while there'd be a very difficult humanitarian problem in the short run, both for China and South Korea, in the long run it would lead to reunification.”

“The beauty of service-type businesses is that if they're well run, you have huge excess cash flow.”

Ifs Wells Running Huge Type Flow Excess Cash Cash Flow

Author:Warren Hellman

“A lot of the despair we feel watching the news every day flows from our sense of helplessness, and as a fiction writer you get to control things, if only on the page. You get to run the show. You can right wrongs, bring departed loved ones back to life, even take vengeance on God, if that's your thing.”

Ifs Feels Shows Running Fiction Despair News Pages Flow Loved Ones Vengeance Helplessness Fiction Writers Departed

Author:Ron Currie Jr.

“Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.”

Important Running Romance Sports Focus Taught Return Flow Keep Going Racing Relaxed Never Quit Running Fast

Author:Frank Shorter

“A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.”

Should Believe Persons Made Running I Believe Water Pay Flow Conservative

Author:Theodore White

“His mouth opens. From inside him comes a slow stream, without breath, without interruption. It flows up through his body and out upon me; it passes through the cabin, through the wreck; washing the cliffs and shores of the island, it runs northward and southward to the ends of the earth. Soft and cold, dark and unending, it beats against my eyelids, against the skin of my face.”

Ends Body Running Earth Faces Dark Cold Beats Mouths Flow Skins Breaths Islands Streams Shore Cliffs Wrecks Washing Interruptions Unending Cabins Eyelids

Book:Foe: A Novel

Source: Foe: A Novel

“The King beneath the mountains, The King of carven stone, The lord of silver fountains Shall come into his own! His crown shall be upholden, His harp shall be restrung, His halls shall echo golden To songs of yore re-sung. The woods shall wave on mountains. And grass beneath the sun; His wealth shall flow in fountains And the rivers golden run. The streams shall run in gladness, The lakes shall shine and burn, And sorrow fail and sadness At the Mountain-king’s return!”

“Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass! The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass!”

Firsts Children Two Running Together Causes Nice Mankind Tears Flow Moved Grass Unbearable Succession Lightness Kitsch Unbearable Lightness Of Being Unbearable Lightness

Author:Milan Kundera

“I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear. How the Chimney-sweeper's cry Every black'ning Church appalls; And the hapless Soldier's sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls. But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlot's curse Blasts the new born Infant's tear, And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.”

Source: Poems: Introduction by Patti Smith

“To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.”

Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

“In the parallel universe the laws of physics are suspended. What goes up does not necessarily come down, a body at rest does not tend to stay at rest and not every action can be counted on to provoke an equal and opposite reaction. Time, 'too, is different. It may run in circles, flow backward, skip about from now to then. The very arrangement of molecules is fluid: Tables can be clocks, faces, flowers.”

Source: Girl, Interrupted

“As we walk back, it feels like the city is engulfing us. Adrenalin still pours through our veins. Sparks flow through to our fingers. We've still been running in the mornings, but the city's different then. It's filled with hope and with bristles of winter sunshine. In the evening, it's like it dies, waiting to be born again the next morning.”

Feels Stills Different Running Dies Next Waiting Born Walks Cities Morning Flow Filled Fingers Winter Evening Sunshine Sparks Veins Born Again Engulfing

Author:Markus Zusak

“The name says it all. That's where Dad (Hades) tries out his new punishment ideas, but he says the traditional ones still work best: the lava flows, the minefields full of exploding surprises, burning at the stake, running naked through cactus patches... You name it, we've got it here - Nico di Angelo”

Trying Stills Ideas Running Names Dad Flow Surprise Punishment Naked Traditional Burning Stakes Patches Hades Exploding Nico Di Angelo Lava Cactus Minefields Burning At The Stake

Author:Rick Riordan

“When I'm out on a long run," she continued, "the only thing in life that matters is finishing the run. For once, my brain isn't going blehblehbleh all the time. Everything quiets down, and the only thing going on is pure flow. It's jus time and the movement and the motion.That's what love--just being a barbarian, running through the woods.”

Long Matter Running Brain Movement Pure Flow Down And Woods Things In Life Long Runs Just Being Finishing Barbarians

Author:Christopher McDougall

“When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.”

Ifs Thinking Want Needs Running Pain My Own Secret Anxiety Flow Stress Patience Want Me Furnaces Without Pain Stress And Anxiety

Book:Rumi Poetry: 100 Bedtime Verses

Source: Rumi Poetry: 100 Bedtime Verses

“Flow into your dancing, circulate the steps into your body, as you would run your fingers through the hair of the one you Love.”

Body Running Steps Hair Flow Dancing Dance Fingers Your Body One You Love

Author:Nelly Mazloum

“There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization's overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow...It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.”

“Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley proportional to its size, and all of them together forming a system of vallies, communicating with one another, and having such a nice adjustment of their declivities that none of them join the principal valley on too high or too low a level; a circumstance which would be infinitely improbable if each of these vallies were not the work of the stream that flows in it.”

Ifs Would Be Running Together Science Levels Nice Hard Work Circumstances Lows Flow Rivers Size Communicate Variety Streams Branches Feds Valleys Principal Adjustment Improbable Trunks

Author:John Playfair

“My research has shown me that when emotions are expressed-which is to say that the biochemicals that are the substrate of emotion are flowing freely-all systems are united and made whole. When emotions are repressed, denied, not allowed to be whatever they may be, our network pathways get blocked, stopping the flow of the vital feel-good, unifying chemicals that run both our biology and our behavior.”

Source: Molecules Of Emotion: Why You Feel The Way You Feel

“Running is in my blood-the adrenaline flows before the races, the love/hate of butterflies in your stomach.”

Running Hate Sports Race Blood Flow Stomach Butterfly Inspirational Sports Love Hate Adrenaline Track And Field Butterflies In Your Stomach

Author:Marcus O'Sullivan

“The notion of saving the planet has nothing to do with intellectual honesty or science. The fact is that the planet was here long before us and will be here long after us. The planet is running fine. What people are talking about is saving themselves and saving their middle-class lifestyles and saving their cash flow.”

People Long Facts Running Talking Class Middle Honesty Planets Fine Intellectual Flow Notion Lifestyle Saving Middle Class Cash Cash Flow Intellectual Honesty

Author:Lynn Margulis

“The rock has strange powers. When you rub it, and run down the hill, the adrenaline flows. It's the most emotional experience I've ever had.”

Running Rocks Emotional Football College Strange Flow Hills Adrenaline College Football

Author:Michael Dean Perry

“Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards... Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing. Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent and thereby succeed in winning, may be called a heaven-born captain.”

Source: El Arte de la Guerra – The Art of War (Sun Tzu)

“I thought, man, if you could run 100 miles, you'd be in this Zen state. You'd be the f**king Buddha. Bringing peace and a smile to the world. In my case, it didn't work. I'm the same old punk ass as ever. But there's always this hope that it'll turn you into the person you want to be. You know, like a better, more peaceful person. And when I'm out on a long run, the only thing in life that matters is finishing the run. For once, my brain isn't going 'bleh bleh bleh bleh.' Everything just quiets down, and the only thing going on is pure flow”

“The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with it. There, as nowhere else, you feel a total absence of the spirit: herds of men who cannot count past three, herds more who cannot get past six, scorn for pure science and demoniacal respect for the present. And the terrible thing is that the crowd that fills the street believes that the world will always be the same and that it is their duty to keep that huge machine running, day and night, forever.”

“At that time in my life I implicitly understood something that adults seem to have forgotton: that we do have control over our own bodies. I forgot that many times as an adult, too; but sometimes when I was in the flow and running with complete confidence, I would remember that feeling and know that I could will my body to do my bidding. On those days I was unbeatable.”

Knows Sometimes Feelings Body Seems Running Remember Understood Adults Flow Bidding Unbeatable

Author:Lorraine Moller

“If your cash is about to run out, you have to cut your cash flow. CEOs have to make those decisions and live with them however painful they may be. You have to act and act now; and act in the best interest of the company as a whole, even if it means that some people in the company who are your best friends have to work somewhere else.”

People Ifs Inspirational May Mean Whole Running Interest Decision Company Cutting Flow Painful Be You Cash Ceo Somewhere Else Your Best Friend Cash Flow

Author:Larry Ellison

“I wake up feeling clear and energized in the morning What is most profound for me about this light eating pattern is the flow of cosmic energy I feel coursing through my body. During the day it feels as if joy is simply running through every cell independent of external factors.”

Ifs Feels Feelings Body Light Running Joy Energy Morning Clear Eating Flow Wake Up Independent Profound Patterns Factors Cells Cosmic Cosmic Energy

Book:Conscious Eating

Source: Conscious Eating

“Awake, my soul, and with the sun thy daily course of duty run. Cast off dull sloth, and joyful rise to pay thy morning sacrifice. All praise to thee, who safe hast kept and hast refreshed me while I slept! Grant, Lord, when I from death shall wake, I may of endless life partake. All praise to thee, my God, this night for all the blessings of the light. Keep me, oh keep me, King of Kings, beneath Thine own almighty wings. Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow. Praise Him, all creatures here below. Praise Him above, ye heavenly host. Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.”

“Most of us become so rigidly fixed in the ruts carved out by genetic programming and social conditioning that we ignore the options of choosing any other course of action. Living exclusively by genetic and social instructions is fine as long as everything goes well. But the moment bioloical or social goals are frustrated- which in the long run is inevitable - a person must formulate new goals, and create a new flow activity for himself, or else he will always waste his energies in inner turmoil.”

Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

“The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch them in times of sudden horror, tragedy or disaster. The pulse stops apparently, and nothing can be done, and not one move made, until a “nice cup of tea” is quickly made. There is no question that it brings solace and does steady the mind. What a pity all countries are not.”

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