“Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance” LifeLastsTimeTakenMinutesWindEqualFlowEternityImportanceChainsTime PassingPetalsTime PassesLife TimeOld Life Author:Benjamin Franklin
“The idea that we are "stewards of the earth" is another symptom of human arrogance. Imagine yourself with the task of overseeing your body's physical processes. Do you understand the way it works well enough to keep all its systems in operation? Can you make your kidneys function? Can you control the removal of waste? Are you conscious of the blood flow through your arteries, or the fact that you are losing a hundred thousand skin cells a minute?” WayHumansWellsIdeasEnoughFactsBodyEarthProcessImagineBloodMinutesThousandWasteLosingConsciousHundredFlowTasksSkinsFunctionEnvironmentalYour BodyCellsOperationsArroganceSymptomsStewardshipRemovalKidneysStewardsArteriesBlood FlowOverseeing Author:Lynn Margulis
“I think if you don't stop an actor every two minutes, changing the position of the camera and the lighting, there is going to be a flow of energy.” IfsThinkingTwoActorsEnergyMinutesPositionFlowCamerasLighting Author:Cristian Mungiu
“I tend to write songs fast, so the process usually only lasts around 30 minutes. In the studio is where I really can artistically breathe, and let my ideas flow.” WritingIdeasLastsSongProcessMinutesFlowStudiosBreathe Author:Alan Cohen
“Allow some warm-up time each day to stimulate your creative flow. A pianist does keyboard exercises. A gymnast stretches. An artist needs to loosen up, too. It takes a few minutes to shift from the real world into a creative mode.” WorldNeedsDoeRealArtistCreativeMinutesExerciseFlowWarmPreparationEach DayReal WorldKeyboardsPianistGymnast Book:The New Creative Artist Source: The New Creative Artist
“Narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands...a brook that never goes straight for a minute, but goes and goes briskly, sometimes ungrammatically, and sometimes fetching a horseshoe of ¾ of a mile around and at the end of the circuit flowing within a yard of the path that it traversed an hour before; but always going and always following at least one law, always loyal to that law, the law of narrative, which has no law. Nothing to do but make the trip; the how of it is not important, so that the trip is made.” ShouldMadeImportantEndsSometimesLawHoursPathMinutesFlowFollowingMilesHillsNarrativeLoyalYardsBrooksCircuitsWoodlandHorseshoes Author:Mark Twain
“During those times like in my early years as a writer I could actually write a song in ten minutes because all of a sudden a song is writing itself, I'm just putting down words. It just seem each line that you put down flows with the other ones. It's like writing a love letter you don't think about it, it's something from the heart.” ThinkingWritingYearsHeartSeemsSongLinesMinutesTenFlowLettersLove Letter Author:Ben E. King
“As soon as you introduce the mechanical clock, you get a radically different view of time. Suddenly, it's not a flow; it's a series of discreet, precisely measurable units, seconds, minutes, hours, and so forth.” DifferentHoursViewsMinutesFlowSeriesClockSecondsIntroducingUnitsDiscreetDifferent Views Author:Nicholas G. Carr