"Sometimes in writing you have difficult periods and then other times it just flows."
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"Flow is an optimal state in which you feel totally engaged in an activity...In a state of flow, you're neither bored nor anxious, and you don't question your own adequacy. Hours pass without your noticing."
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"See how the Ganga flows by and what a nice building! I like this place. This is the ideal kind of place for a Math. (in Belur, West Bengal)."
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"Sometimes I write with music on, and if I'm in a good flow, I don't even hear it."
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"As the mind shrinks at the will of the initiate, thought flows in to fill the spaces so created."
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"The wise person dines on something more subtle: He eats the understanding that the named was born from the unnamed, that all being flows from non-being, that the describable world emanates from an indescribable source."
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"Great, it passes on (in constant flow)."
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"You can go raise the money outside of the industry, and then what you're doing is fighting with your money to get back into the industry, or for them to use your money instead of their own. So, you got to figure out how to do it within the flow of the industry."
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"God can dream a bigger dream for me, for you, than you could ever dream for yourself. When you've worked as hard and done as much and strived and tried and given and pled and bargained and hoped... Surrender. When you have done all that you can do, and there's nothing left for you to do, give it up. Give it up to that thing that is greater than yourself, and let it then become a part of the flow."
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"Time itself flows on with constant motion, just like a river: for no more than a river can the fleeting hour stand still. As wave is driven on by wave, and, itself pursued, pursues the one before, so the moments of time at once flee and follow, and are ever new."
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"Grief brims itself and flows away in tears."
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"In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you."
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"Dig inside. Inside is the fountain of good, and it will forever flow, if you will forever dig."
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"Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine."
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"I don't do all that well in the writerly world. I'm happier being outside the flow."
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"Not everything was lost in the flow of time"
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"The microscopes that magnified the tears, studied warts and all. Still life flows on."
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"Who knows what the human body would expand and flow out to under a more genial heaven?"
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"Certainly anything that is news or opinion needs to be free on the Web, because the Web is this very fluid medium that is very much driven by links and the flow of visitors through a discussion via links."
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"Everything changes but change itself. Everything flows and nothing remains the same... You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go flowing ever on."
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