Best flow & thinking Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me.”

People Thinking World Important Ideas Games Language My Own Flow Copies Imagery Outside World

Author:Margaret Mahy

“I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of you each second.”

Thinking Kind States Fronts Flow Climbing Thinking Ahead

Author:Aron Ralston

“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.”

“Meditation is a practice of detaching and then stopping ourselves from thinking; our thoughts are interruptions in the flow of awareness. Consciousness, in its highest aspect, is perfect and formless.”

Thinking Perfect Consciousness Practice Meditation Awareness Buddhism Highest Aspect Flow Our Thoughts Stopping Interruptions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Religious teachings and teachers have conditioned us to think of faith as a magic catalyst that makes God work for us. In no way does faith make God work nor does it release some kind of miracle power. Faith simply tunes into and turns on the divine flow that has always been present”

Thinking Way Kind Doe Turns Religious Teacher Magic Teaching Divine Flow Miracle Release Tunes Catalyst Teachers And Teaching

Author:Eric Butterworth

“The City's going to be very very beautiful! Its going to be like a beautiful beautiful park in some places, and there in the lower level where the river flows right through the City there's going to be these beautiful trees growing on both sides, fruit trees with 12 different kinds of fruit, a different kind every month, think of that!-And leaves that'll be able to heal the people outside the City that are still sin-sick, and sick of their disobediences and their rebellion against God. We're going to be able to take those leaves outside and heal them!”

“Access to the outside world is preventing more censorship. I do think information flow is happening in China. .. There's no doubt in my mind that it's been a huge plus.”

Thinking World Mind Doubt Information Huge Happenings Flow China Access No Doubt Plus Censorship Preventing Outside World Information Flow

Author:Bill Gates

“When we think of the state of the economy, we are not thinking in terms of money flow. We are thinking in terms of the effect on everyday lives of people.”

People Thinking States Term Economy Effects Flow Everyday Everyday Life

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.”

Thinking Should Looks Art Done Taught Flow Assuming Taught Us Impressionists

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.”

Thinking Doe Art Moving Next Hundred Flow Instruments Legs Rhythm Next Time Centipedes

Author:Robert Genn

“To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness.”

Thinking Lying Values Silence Break Solitude Flow Streams Wilderness Cedars

Author:John Muir

“I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling.”

Thinking Feelings Born Color Painting Flow Structure Possessed

Author:Jules Olitski

“Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There is an almost quaint correlation between what is in front of our eyes and the thoughts we are able to have in our heads: large thoughts at times requiring large views, new thoughts new places. Introspective reflections which are liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape. The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do.”

Source: The Art of Travel

“Music's always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can't create or experience one without its influences bleeding into another. In my writing, music's mostly something that feeds my inspiration and mood while I'm writing, but it's also taught me how to score scenes and even novels. The rise and fall of the storyline echoes the flow of a good piece of music.”

Thinking Writing Art Inspiration Fall Novel Pieces Influence Taught Scene Art Is Flow Mood Score Echoes Bleeding Interconnected Writing Music Rise And Fall Storyline

Author:Charles de Lint

“Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. Fops may have leave to level all they can; As pigmies would be glad to lop a man. Half-wits are fleas; so little and so light, We scarce could know they live, but that they bite.”

Thinking Knows Men Needs May Littles Shows Light Would Be Levels Half Flow Errors Faults Surface Wit Glad Bites Pearls Scarce Straws Fleas

Book:The Poetical Works of John Dryden

Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden

“It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.”

Thinking Writing Persons Soul Matter Form Flow

Author:Anton Chekhov

“What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.”

Thinking Form Flow

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“In playwriting, you've got to be able to write dialogue. And if you write enough of it and let it flow enough, you'll probably come across something that will give you a key as to structure. I think the process of writing a play is working back and forth between the moment and the whole. The moment and the whole, the fluidity of the dialogue and the necessity of a strict construction. Letting one predominate for a while and coming back and fixing it so that eventually what you do, like a pastry chef, is frost your mistakes, if you can.”

“Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.”

Thinking Feels Light Strong Flow Currents Surface Streams Shallow Obscure Below The Surface

Book:St. Paul and Protestantism: With Other Essays

Source: St. Paul and Protestantism: With Other Essays

“Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well.”

Thinking Wells Flow

Book:Illuminations

Source: Illuminations

“Don't you feel something magical when you're in love?... I do, I certainly do ... but I think that feeling of magic is a hardwired psychological response. It's a chemical thing in the brain. It's a flow of chemicals and electrical currents, and it developed over millions of years in the process of evolution to aid in the procreation of the species.”

Thinking Feels Years Feelings Process Brain Millions Magic Evolution Flow Response Species Currents Aids Psychological Chemicals Electrical Procreation

Author:Alan Lightman

“I think future generations will see the invention of the Internet as having been as important as the invention of the printing press. It’s the democratizing tool of all tools. As long as no one can control the flow of information, then freedom always has a chance.”

Thinking Long Important Chance Generations Information Internet Flow Tools Presses Invention Future Generation Printing Printing Press

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals. We look away from government for relief, because we know that force (legalized) invades the personal liberty of man, seizes upon the natural elements and intervenes between man and natural laws; from this exercise of force through governments flows nearly all the misery, poverty, crime and confusion existing in society.”

“Transitions are critically important. I want the reader to turn the page without thinking she's turning the page. It must flow seamlessly.”

Thinking Want Important Turns Reader Pages Flow Transition

Author:Janet Evanovich

“You want my dark side? Have I ever stolen anything? Not so much intentionally. But I don't think it's so much stealing as... being a part of the flow of the universe. You know, where there's an exchange. It's positive. It's negative. There's an exchange of goods and services.”

Thinking Knows Want Universe Sides Dark Negative Flow Stealing Goods Stolen Dark Side Goods And Services

Author:Bill Murray

“I think I became a better writer after I started writing for the New Yorker. Well, I know I did. And part of it was having my New Yorker editor and part of it is that was when I started really going on tour and reading things in front of an audience 30 times and then going back in the room and rewriting it and reading it and rewriting it. So you really get the rhythm of the sentences down and you really get the flow down and you get rid of stuff that's not important.”

Thinking Knows Writing Wells Important Reading Stuff Rooms Audience Fronts Flow Down And Sentences Rhythm Editors New Yorkers Rewriting

Author:David Sedaris

“The spiritual man habitually makes eternity-judgments instead of time-judgments. By faith he rises above the tug of earth and the flow of time and learns to think and feel as one who has already left the world and gone to join the innumerable company of angels and the general assembly and Church of the First-born which are written in heaven. Such a man would rather be useful than famous and would rather serve than be served. And all this must be by the operation of the Holy Spirit within him. No man can become spiritual by himself. Only the free Spirit can make a man spiritual.”

“I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.”

Thinking Art Artist Difficult Creativity Poet Flow Universal

Author:Alex Grey

“Think of all the nonsense you had to learn in psychology courses. None of which was testable. None of which was measurable. We had behaviorism, Freudian psychology, all of these theories that you learn in psychology. Totally untestable. Now, we can test it, because physics allows us to calculate energy flows in the brain.”

Thinking Courses Energy Brain Psychology Theory Flow Tests Physics Nonsense Behaviorism Energy Flow

Author:Michio Kaku

“I think the relationship between memory and time is a very deep and tricky one, to tell you the truth. I don't consider memory another sense. I do consider memory that which allows us to think that time flows.”

Thinking Memories Flow Tricky Very Deep

Author:Brian Greene

“An effective leader is willing to think about what's happening and how to understand what's going on. Facilitating flow and making others more conscious of it, the leader communicates an awareness of process to the group, making them more aware of their energies and options. One important principle is to keep track of who has not spoken. ... It's also important to notice when people do speak out but are not heard. Effective leaders practice patience, reminding themselves to wait and observe, remembering that there's always more going on in a group than we're consciously aware of.”

“I think the most dangerous word in the English language is 'should.' 'I should have done this.' Or 'I should do that.' 'Should' implies responsibility. It connotes demand. Which is just not the case. Life ebbs and flows.”

Thinking Should Done Language Responsibility Cases Dangerous Demand Flow Should Have Should I English Language Ebb And Flow

Author:Chris Pine

“I find human beings to be so complex and full of beauty. Creativity is our way to express and challenge and flow. So, all you humans, create and flow! Ill be over here thinking you are beautiful and creepy and freaky and wonderful!”

Thinking Way Humans Beautiful Challenges Human Beings Creativity Wonderful Flow Complexes Ill Creepy You Are Beautiful Freaky

Author:Angela Bettis

“A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as molten gold. But really, sometimes you think you are going to one place, but then you decide that is dumb idea. Then you go somewhere else and it is a worse idea. But then you switch again and you might have a beautiful accident.”

Thinking Knows Ideas Sometimes Stories Might Beautiful Flow Gold Assuming Accidents Dumb Somewhere Else

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.”

Thinking Flow Metaphor Mediums Time Passes Time Goes By

Book:Time Travel: A History

Source: Time Travel: A History

“I think if you looked at the kind of ebb and flow of supernatural fiction and horror fiction, it does seem to be more popular in times when were hammered over the head daily with threats from all angles, very real threats.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Doe Real Seems Fiction Horror Flow Threat Angle Ebb And Flow Hammered

Author:Michael Koryta

“Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.”

Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin

“People who excel at book learning tend to call up from memory what they have learned in order to follow stored instructions. Others who are better at internalized learning use the thoughts that flow from their subconscious. The experienced skier doesn't recite instructions on how to ski and then execute them; rather, he does it well "without thinking," in the same way he breathes without thinking. Understanding these differences is essential.”

People Thinking Way Life Wells Doe Book Use Order Understanding Growth Differences Memories Essentials Flow Personal Growth Investing Breathe Instruction Subconscious Skis Skiers Book Learning

Author:Ray Dalio

“If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder of the heavens flows all grace and power. If anyone thinks it is mindless then he himself must be out of his mind.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Mind Looks Feelings Heaven Stars Wonder Doubt Grace Capable Flow Endure Look Up Mindless Power Of God

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“A narrative thread gives people permission to think about other things whilst being carried by its flow. It does not mean that one has to compromise one's vision, or question formal concerns. It's just being more subtle and clever by having one accessible thread.”

People Thinking Giving Mean Doe Vision Concern Flow Clever Compromise Narrative Subtle Thread Just Being Permission Formal

Author:Sally Potter

“I think in theater the playwright is king. Those words are unchangeable. They are the reason that everything else flows from.”

Thinking Reason Kings Flow Theater Playwright Unchangeable

Author:Greta Gerwig

“As we went through mach one, the nose started dropping, so we just cranked that horizontal stabilizer down to keep the nose up. We got it above mach one, and once we got it above the speed of sound, then you have supersonic flow over the whole airplane, so you have no more shock waves on it that are causing buffeting...You really don't think about the outcome of any kind of a flight, whether it's combat, or any other kinds of flights, because you really have no control over it.”

Thinking Kind Whole Sound Flow Wave Speed Flight Noses Outcomes Shock Aviation Over It Combat Airplane Dropping Horizontal

Author:Chuck Yeager

“I'm a very typical yoga-practicing musician; I do it when I can. I'm not hardcore about it. A lot of my lyrics talk about celebrating life and working through pain. I think that's what yoga's about, getting rid of, moving energy and letting it flow through you.”

Thinking I Can Pain Moving Energy Musician Yoga Flow Celebrate Typical Hardcore Celebrate Life

Author:Brett Dennen

“To be a great offensive rebounder, you have to think like a defensive rebounder and battle for position while also being in the flow of your offense. And then it's just being determined.”

Thinking Position Battle Flow Determined Just Being Offensive Offense

Author:Moses Malone

“Setting a field for synchronicity is a matter of putting yourself in a particular state of mind. It is easy to think about synchronicity intellectually, but unless you enter the state of mind where your prayer-field will help, all you will do is glimpse the coincidences every once in a while. In some situations that is enough and you will be led forward for a time, but eventually you will lose your direction. The only way to establish a constant flow of synchronicity is to stay in a state where your prayer field keeps this flow moving toward you--a state of conscious alertness.”

“Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement. That is to say, one can feel a sense of flow in the stream of consciousness not dissimilar to the sense of flow in the movement of matter in general. May not thought itself thus be a part of reality as a whole? But then, what could it mean for one part of reality to 'know' another, and to what extent would this be possible?”

Thinking Knows Feels May Mean Matter Whole Shows Reality Process Attention Consciousness Movement Flow Careful Streams Stream Of Consciousness

Author:David Bohm

“Exultation that does not flow from education, affections that do not flow from knowing, savoring that does not flow from seeing, feeling that does not flow from thinking - are hollow and rootless - noisy gongs and clanging cymbals. And God is not glorified by artificial and empty passions. True delight is rooted in true doctrine. God-centered exultation is rooted in God-centered education.”

Thinking Doe Feelings Passion Knowing Seeing Flow Empty Affection Delight Doctrine Artificial Rooted Hollow Noisy Savoring Gongs Cymbals

Author:John Piper

“Believing isn't thinking, but we've been programmed to believe that believing is thinking. To use our intelligence to think means we're keeping the energy active, we're thinking, we're really using the power of our intelligence in a thinking way. But when we've been programmed to believe, we're no longer thinking, because energy flows.”

Thinking Way Believe Mean Use Energy Flow Active Energy Flow

Author:John Trudell

“My bottom line is that I think Ridley Scott is one of the greatest visual artists of our time and I feel very privileged that he wants to work with me, so I go with that flow.”

Thinking Want Feels Artist Lines Flow Bottom Our Time Visuals Privileged Bottom Line Visual Art Visual Artist

Author:Russell Crowe

“My hope is to continue to make new music and go with the flow. I think I'll always be creative. I want to keep making good music, put myself into positions where I need to rise to the occasion of playing in front of an audience, and continually get better at what I'm doing.”

Thinking Want Needs Audience Creative Fronts Position Flow Occasions Get Better Be Creative New Music

Author:Vance Joy

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