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• I played 'Eruption' two times for the record, and we kept the one that seemed to flow ... there's a mistake at the top end of it whenever I hear it, I always think, Man I could've played it better ... but I like the way it sounds. I'd never heard a guitar sound like that before.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Music, Mistake, Men

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• Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

  William Stafford

  Literature, Enhancement, Kind

  William Stafford (1978). “Writing the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer's Vocation”

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• It's spelled J-E-A-H. If you say it like how it's spelled it's ‘jee-ah.’ But, that's boring; no one wants to hear that. So you have to really put that emphatis [sic] on that ‘J.’ And then the ‘A-H’ kinda just flows.

  Ryan Lochte

  Want, Boring, Ifs

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• 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.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Running, Long, Goal

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• But to change all existence into a flow experience, it is not sufficient to learn merely how to control moment-by-moment states of consciousness. It is also necessary to have an overall context of goals for the events of everyday life to make senseTo create harmony in whatever one does is the last task that the flow theory presents to whose who wish to attain optimal experience; it is a task that involves transforming the entirety of life into a single flow activity, with unified goals that provide constant purpose.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Goal, Everyday, Wish

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• Father, take my life, yea, my blood if Thou wilt, and consume it with Thine enveloping fire. I would not save it, for it is not mine to save. Have it Lord, have it all. Pour out my life as an oblation for the world. Blood is only of value as it flows before Thine altar

  Jim Elliot

  Father, Fire, Blood

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• We usually do not look into what is really there in front of us. We see life through a screen of thoughts and concepts, and we mistake those mental objects for reality. We get so caught up in this endless thought-stream that reality flows by unnoticed. We spend our time engrossed in activity, caught up in an eternal flight from pain and unpleasantness. We spend our energies trying to make ourselves feel better, trying to bury our fears. We are endlessly seeking security. Meanwhile, the world of real experience flows by untouched and untasted.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Pain, Real, Mistake

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• Percentage margins are not one of the things we are seeking to optimize. It’s the absolute dollar free cash flow per share that you want to maximize, and if you can do that by lowering margins, we would do that.  So if you could take the free cash flow, that’s something that investors can spend. Investors can’t spend percentage margins.

  Jeff Bezos

  Cash Flow, Dollars, Want

  "Jeff Bezos on Leading for the Long-Term at Amazon". "HBR IdeaCast" with Adi Ignatius, hbr.org.

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• The most important word in the world of money is cash flow. The second most important word is leverage.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Business, Cash Flow, Words Of Wisdom

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• God’s wealth circulates in my life, it flows to me in avalanches of abundance. All my needs, desires and goals are met instantaneously, for I am one with God and he is everything!

  Tony Robbins

  Goal, Desire, Needs

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• 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.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Running, Country, Nice

  "Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes".

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• Harton thought that if one squeezed humanity through a wine press, its essence would flow out as drops of policemen.

  Georges Limbour

  Wine, Essence, Police

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• Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals. Success is the ability to fulfill your desires with effortless ease. And yet success, including the creation of wealth, has always been considered to be a process that requires hard work and it is often considered to be at the expense of others. We need a more spiritual approach to success and to affluence which is the abundant flow of all good things to you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Success, Spiritual, Business

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.8, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Conflicts, even of long standing duration, can be resolved if we can just keep the flow of communication going in which people come out of their heads and stop criticizing and analyzing each other, and instead get in touch with their needs, and hear the needs of others, and realize the interdependence that we all have in relation to each other. We can't win at somebody else's expense. We can only fully be satisfied when the other person's needs are fulfilled as well as our own.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Winning, Long

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• Not the labors of my hands
  Can fulfill thy Law's demands:
  Could my zeal no respite know,
  Could my tears forever flow,
  All for Sin could not atone:
  Thou must save, and Thou alone!

  Augustus Toplady

  Hands, Law, Forever

  Augustus Montague Toplady, “Rock Of Ages, Cleft For Me”

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• Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the events in Galilee. On the contrary, Indian wisdom flows back to Europe, and will produce a fundamental change in our knowledge and thought.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Race, Europe, Roots

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.357, Courier Corporation

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• Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries, only to be rediscovered ages later.

  James Rollins

  Fall, Ebb And Flow, Age

  James Rollins (2014). “The 6th Extinction: A Sigma Force Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I've done from the outset. More than any other element, fun is the secret of Virgin's success. I am aware that the ideas of business as being fun and creative goes right against the grain of convention, and it's certainly not how the they teach it at some of those business schools, where business means hard grind and lots of 'discounted cash flows' and net' present values'.

  Richard Branson

  Fun, School, Mean

  Richard Branson (2005). “Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography”, Virgin Pub

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• And although I see few results, future missionaries will see conversions following every sermon. May they not forget the pioneers who worked in the thick gloom with few rays to cheer, except such as flow from faith in the precious promises of God's Word.

  David Livingstone

  Cheer, Promise, Rays

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• We've done price elasticity studies, and the answer is always that we should raise prices. We don't do that, because we believe -- and we have to take this as an article of faith -- that by keeping our prices very, very low, we earn trust with customers over time, and that that actually does maximize free cash flow over the long term.

  Jeff Bezos

  Believe, Cash Flow, Long

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• The key to liberation from the power of materialism is not an exodus from culture - abandoning Wall Street or leaving the wealth of the nation to others - but the grace of giving... Givers for God disarm the power of money. They invite God's grace to flow through them.

  R. Kent Hughes

  Wall, Keys, Giving

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• History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes.

  Arthur Koestler

  Mistake, Goal, Scruples

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• The love that flows through your heart
  purifies not only your own spirit, but the love you share with others.

  Caroline Myss

  Love You, Heart, Spirit

  Twitter post from Sep 10, 2013

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• Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of wisdom in his or her own life can it flow to a future generation

  Nhat Hanh

  Spring, Healing, Museums

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2006). “The Sun My Heart”, p.1, Parallax Press

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• I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With long-term debt, increases in interest rates can drastically affect company profits and make future cash flows less predictable.

  Warren Buffett

  Cash Flow, Long, Too Much

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