Flow famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Beneath the broad tides of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depth the changes that take place upon the surface.
-- A. E. Waite -
Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter -
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
With writing, I can express myself, really, and share my ideas and just let my thoughts flow out.
-- Adora Svitak -
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 designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow…
-- Adrian Bejan -
The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.
-- Adyashanti -
And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.
-- Aeschylus -
Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
-- Aidan Chambers -
You need not wrestle for your good. Your good flows to you most easily when you are relaxed, open, and trusting.
-- Alan Cohen -
The good that binds us is Love, it comes from our Soul, it flows through our center, and connects us with everything.
-- Alex Grey -
Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
-- Alexander Pope -
Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
-- Alexander Pope -
But grace has only one direction that it can take. Grace always flows down.
-- Alexander Whyte -
This is how memories are made... by going with the flow.
-- Amanda Bynes -
The "flow of information" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort of unambiguous measure to this "flow".
-- Anatol Rapoport -
How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.
-- Andre Breton -
Here is the path to the higher life: down, lower down! Just as water always seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God finds men abased and empty, His glory and power flow in to exalt and to bless.
-- Andrew Murray -
Go with the flow, but pray God keeps you afloat.
-- Angie Martinez -
Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?
-- Anita Desai -
The celebrations Of secret nonmeetings are empty, Unspoken conversations, Unuttered words. Glances that don't intersect Don't know where to come to rest. And only the tears rejoice Because they can flow and flow. Sweetbrier around Moscow, Alas! Somehow it is here ... And all this they will call Love eternal.
-- Anna Akhmatova -
The universe exists only through a constant dance of consistency and change. Through consistency, consciousness finds meaning; through change it finds stimulation and expansion. To find consistency within change is to embrace the unfolding flow.
-- Anodea Judith -
We are all pilgrims on an elusive and endless road... Despite our attempts to build lives on stone foundations, our spirits continuously flow. Endless streams of consciousness ripple through our minds.
-- Anthony Lawlor -
How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
In vain do we seek to awaken our churches to zeal in evangelism as a separate thing. To be genuine it must flow from love to Christ. It is when a sense of personal communion with the Son of God is highest that we shall be most fit for missionary work, either ourselves or to stir up others.
-- Archibald Alexander -
One thing that blocks flow is self-consciousness.
-- Ariel Gore -
For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.
-- Aristotle -
True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.
-- Aristotle -
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.
-- Aron Ralston -
In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests on the shadow table as the shadow ink flows over the shadow paper. It is all symbolic, and as a symbol the physicist leaves it. ... The frank realization that physical science is concerned with a world of shadows is one of the most significant of recent advances.
-- Arthur Eddington -
History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unerring, she flows towards her goal. At every bend in her course she leaves the mud which she carries and the corpses of the drowned.
-- Arthur Koestler -
History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes.
-- Arthur Koestler -
How to live had started out as an analytical problem of how to place himself so as to intercept the flow of money in the society.
-- Arthur Miller -
For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I print.
-- Ashley Scott -
So what Chiropractic does, is that it simply “takes the handcuffs off Natureâ€, as it were. By finding the particular vertebra that had shifted and restoring it to its natural position, the adjustment thus releases the natural flow of nerve impulse. When the maze of nerves, or Nature’s communication system, supplies the body with the energy it needs for well being, you have health.
-- B. J. Palmer -
Innate must flow fully, freely, naturally; to, through, and into the educated brain to produce what education calls greatness.
-- B. J. Palmer -
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses.
-- Banana Yoshimoto -
The notion that we can control the flow of information is obsolete.
-- Barack Obama -
Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.
-- Baruch Spinoza -
The mountain rill Seeks with no surer flow the far bright sea, Than my unchang'd affections flow to thee.
-- Benjamin -
The stream of plenty always flows towards the open expectant mind
-- Bob Proctor -
On thyroid therapy, more than 90 percent of those with painful menstruation were relieved, most of them completely. The results were fully as good in converting irregular periods to normal, regular ones. And in six of seven women with excessive flow, normal flow was established.
-- Broda Otto Barnes -
Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
-- Bruce Lee -
Since life is an ever evolving process, one should flow in this process and discover how to actualize and expand oneself.
-- Bruce Lee -
For the corporation executives, the military metaphysic often coincides with their interest in a stable and planned flow of profit; it enables them to have their risk underwritten by public money; it enables them reasonably to expect that they can exploit for private profit now and later, the risky research developments paid for by public money. It is, in brief, a mask of the subsidized capitalism from which they extract profit and upon which their power is based.
-- C. Wright Mills -
There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities.
-- Carl Rogers -
You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth
-- Carole L. Glickfeld -
The love that flows through your heart purifies not only your own spirit, but the love you share with others.
-- Caroline Myss -
My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.
-- Charles Edison -
When you became a student at Oxford you realized both your own mortality, in the flow of this near-millennium of students, and also the small particle of immortality that attaches to you when you begin to belong to an immortal place.
-- Charles Finch -
I find N.Y. very inspiring; there is an amazing energy and flow of creativity in N.Y. like nowhere else.
-- Charlotte Ronson -
Abundance flows into my life in surprising and miraculous ways every day.
-- Cheryl Richardson -
Our relationship with God flows out of our love for God.
-- Christine Caine -
Our heart is like a reservoir from which our lives flow.
-- Chuck Smith -
And as an actor - or even as a person in the industry - if you're unwilling to change, you're just going to get swamped. You've got to be flexible, and you've got to go with the flow. That's what I try to do as an actor.
-- Clint Howard -
You just got to out there and flow, like Bruce Lee said, you got to be like water.
-- Cub Swanson -
Managing your money does not depend upon becoming wealthy or declaring vows of poverty. Rather, it is about creating stability and sufficiency - a balanced flow of monetary energy through your life.
-- Dan Millman -
Privacy is not a static construct. It is not an inherent property of any particular information or setting. It is a process by which people seek to have control over a social situation by managing impressions, information flows, and context.
-- danah boyd -
For the High Achievers, Studying Gave Them The Pleasing, Absorbing Challenge of Flow Percent of the Hours They Spent as It.
-- Daniel Goleman -
The cosmos deals in the currency of emotion. When we feel good, goodness flows.
-- Danielle LaPorte -
When we're dealing with money in relationships, when we're dealing with money in our personal lives, when we're dealing with money in our families, the flow of money in a family represents the value system under which that family operates.
-- Dave Ramsey -
During the '90s the flow of misinformation was established.
-- David Brock -
Humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions. Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp.
-- David Cameron -
The positive and negative poles of a battery create an electrical flow. The masculine and feminine poles between people create a flow of sexual energy in motion.
-- David Deida -
Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by making anyone who goes against the flow of commerce seem clueless.
-- David Denby -
To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology; without wilderness the world is a cage.
-- David R. Brower -
Laughter is a symptom of spirituality. Laughter is the flow of love coursing through your body. Laughter is the nectar of present moment awareness. Invite more laughter into your life and relish the magic in every moment.
-- David Simon -
The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.
-- David Tang -
When we accept all of life's contradictions, when we can comfortably flow between the banks of pleasure and pain, experiencing them both while getting stuck in neither, then we are free.
-- Deepak Chopra -
When you are in the field of creativity, you lose track of time. Only the flow exists.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Any desire to grow is following the flow of love
-- Deepak Chopra -
Love is considered the most basic emotion that human awareness can feel; therefore, it is the closest to the source of life. The burst of well-being you feel when you fall in love is due to the fact that you unconsciously open the channels of awareness that allow more Prana [Life Force] to flow.
-- Deepak Chopra -
I know it may seem surprising to people, but learning dialog that has a conversational flow to it is not that difficult.
-- Deidre Hall -
We know nothing accurately in reality, but [only] as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon [the body] and impinge upon it.
-- Democritus -
Refusal to accept the flow of the world is the root of all misery.
-- Devdutt Pattanaik -
...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.
-- Dodie Smith -
Ideally there is a type of continuum which flows from life through the artist's sensibility and his materials... the concreteness of the object and its own life , through the spectator, with his expectations, interpretations, back into life.
-- Douglas Portway -
15, 16, I mean, 17, 18, is when I was really getting into the hip hop phase and really studying the things that I needed to study as far as learning about flows and learning about lyrics.
-- Drake -
A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life.
-- E. L. Doctorow -
Early practice is vital so that performances became totally ingrained and flow from the subconscious.
-- Earl Woods -
It is quite possible even that the planet would no longer be able to sustain human life. Probably, the planet eventually would regenerate and produce some other life form. Consciousness would flow into some other life form and express itself through that, whatever that would be.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
I am the hole on the flute that Gods breath flows through.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
When you say, 'I enjoy doing this or that', it is really a misperception. It makes it appear that the joy comes from what you do, but that is not the case. Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.
-- Eddie Murphy -
Whether we wound or are wounded, the blood that flows is red.
-- Eiichiro Oda -
Be surprised at nothing. Let peace and stillness flood through you and envelop you completely in its cloak. Put on the whole armor of love - and yet feel, feel very deeply. Let tears flow, washing away impurities until you feel clean within and clean without. Become like an empty vessel ready to be filled with life's nectar.
-- Eileen Caddy -
Fret not where the road will take you. Instead concentrate on the first step. That's the hardest part and that's what you are responsible for. Once you take that step let everything do what it naturally does and the rest will follow. Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.
-- Elif Safak -
So this is the goal: To make money by increasing net profit, while simultaneously increasing return on investment, and simultaneously increasing cash flow.
-- Eliyahu M. Goldratt -
When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.
-- Elliott Carter -
Don't go into great detail describing places and things, unless you're ÂMargaret Atwood and can paint scenes with language. You don't want descriptions that bring the action, the flow of the story, to a standstill.
-- Elmore Leonard -
Watch for the high tides of yourself and flow up with them; when the inevitable low tides come, either rest or meditate. You cannot escape rhythm. You transcend it by working with it.
-- Elsa Barker -
Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.
-- Epictetus -
The goal should not be to make money or acquire things, but to achieve the consciousness through which the substance will flow forth when and as you need it.
-- Eric Butterworth
