Spontaneity Quotes

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  Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

  William Wordsworth

  Powerful, Poetry, Feelings

  Lyrical Ballads 2nd ed., preface (1802) See Dorothy Parker 24

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• As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.

  Charlie Haden

  Music, Art, Passion

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• The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

  Germaine Greer

  Essence, Pleasure

  Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

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• Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.

  John McLaughlin

  Jazz

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• Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.

  Rollo May

  Art, Creativity, Rivers

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.115, W. W. Norton & Company

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  Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

  Laozi

  Life, Change, Spiritual

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• Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

  e. e. cummings

  Life, Confidence, Believe

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• In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.

  Bruce Lee

  Technique, Combat, Performances

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• Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference, memory choked with old facts and information and undigested theories and techniques of other people's findings. Spontaneity is the moment of personal freedom when we are faced with reality, and see it, explore it and act accordingly. In this reality the bits and pieces of ourselves function as an organic whole. It is the time of discovery, of experiencing, of creative expression.

  Viola Spolin

  Memories, Reality, Discovery

  Viola Spolin (1999). “Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques”, p.4, Northwestern University Press

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• There are very few joys in life greater than spontaneity. Spontaneity means to be in the moment; it means acting out of your awareness, not acting according to your old conditionings.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Mean, Joy

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• To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.

  Robert Bly

  Nature, Crazy, Voice

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• No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

  Edgar Degas

  Art, Reflection, Study

  Ann Dumas, Edgar Degas (1996). “Degas As a Collector”

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• Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Action, Spontaneous, Deliberation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.148

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• The fun stuff comes when someone is not so strict on sticking to the script. You're allowed the spontaneity, and great moments can happen.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Fun, Stuff, Scripts

  "Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd WANDERLUST Interview". Press conference, collider.com. February 20, 2012.

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• To be spontaneous means not to act out of the past, because out of the past is all cunningness, cleverness, calculation, arithmetic.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Past, Spontaneous

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• The way to my heart is by being truthful and spontaneous.

  Michelle Trachtenberg

  Heart, Way, Truthful

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• As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.

  David Hockney

  Harder, Bits

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• Reintegration with Nature, which we are, is the recovery of spontaneity.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Recovery, Reintegration

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• Spontaneity is being present in the present.

  Wei Wu Wei

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• Spontaneity has its time and its place.

  Arthur F. Burns

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• The heart yields spontaneity; the mind bends to understanding.

  Ameen Rihani

  Heart, Yield, Understanding

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• Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Joy, Planning, Existence

  Alan Dean Foster (1982). “Nor crystal tears”, Del Rey

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• All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Courage, Dark

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.90, New Directions Publishing

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• Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves.

  Viola Spolin

  Viola Spolin (1999). “Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques”, p.4, Northwestern University Press

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• Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Spring, Creativity, Analysis

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