Spontaneity Quotes - Page 13

• Fear is a great robber of power. It paralyzes the thinking faculties, ruins spontaneity, enthusiasm, and self confidence. It has a blighting effect upon all one's thoughts, moods, and efforts. It destroys ambition and efficiency.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Motivational, Ambition, Self Confidence

  Orison Swett Marden (2016). “The Miracle of Right Thought”, p.107, FV Éditions

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• I like spontaneity and intelligence in a girl. Nothing is more attractive to me than someone who has a good sense of who she is and can hold her own in a conversation.

  Nathan Adrian

  Girl, Attractive, Conversation

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• In a normal education everything is designed to suppress spontaneity, but I wanted to develop it.

  Keith Johnstone

  Normal, Wanted

  Keith Johnstone (1981). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.15, Routledge

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• I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.

  Brooke Burke

  Energy, Stage, Adrenaline

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• The first typical adolescent of modern times was Wagner's Siegfried. : the music of Siegfried expressed for the first time that combination of (provisional) purity, physical strength, naturism, spontaneity and joie de vivre which was to make the adolescent the hero of our twentieth century, the century of adolescence.

  Philippe Aries

  Strength, Music, Hero

  Philippe Ariès (1962). “Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life”, Vintage

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• The complete and definitive work of art is created beyond one's individuality... ...The universal transcends such a level. Mere spontaneity has never created a work of art which possesses a lasting cultural value. The method leading to universal form is based upon calculations of measure and number.

  Theo van Doesburg

  Art, Numbers, Individuality

  "Elementarism". De Stijl - Van Doesburg Issue, p. 17 - 19, January 1932.

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• Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Giving, Classic, Structure

  "Mohamed ElBaradei: What I've Learned" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. January 31, 2011.

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• Faith is from within; it is the outbreaking of human spontaneity; it is force of soul, grandeur of sentiment, magnanimity, generosity, courage. Its formulas are naturally unintelligible in their literal tenor; for, otherwise, they would represent that which is scientifically known, and would not be the mere provisional clothing of that which is not objectively given, but subjectively projected from the inmost depth of the soul.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Generosity, Soul, Depth

  William Batchelder Greene (1871). “The Blazing Star”, p.6

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• I got myself into a lovely little shall we say controversy with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity, which he was asking his surrealist neophytes to adopt, was new for language but something that composers had been practicing for centuries.

  Virgil Thomson

  Discipline, Lovely, Asking

  Virgil Thomson (1984). “A Virgil Thomson reader”, Plume

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• The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.

  Ugo Betti

  Sincerity, Conventions, Caress

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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• It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Art, Judging, Criticism

  Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.87, Harvard University Press

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• The investigations also proved that there were many cases of spontaneous deviation, i.e. cases where there had been no stimulation of the semi-circular canal apparatus.

  Robert Barany

  Spontaneous, Canals, Deviation

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• For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

  Adam Johnson

  Character, Thinking, Self

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• Sorcery breaks no law of nature because there is no Natural Law, only the spontaneity of natura naturans, the tao. Sorcery violates laws which seek to chain this flow– priests, kings, hierophants, mystics, scientists & shopkeepers all brand the sorcerer enemy for threatening the power of their charade, the tensile strength of their illusory web.

  Hakim Bey

  Kings, Law, Enemy

  Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.23, Autonomedia

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• I tend to be really pragmatic, but ultimately tend to be attracted to people who pull me into more spontaneity. I've really learned that, through surrender, the best experiences of my life have happened.

  Amy Adams

  People, Best Experiences, Surrender

  "Amy Adams Interview LEAP YEAR". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. January 3, 2010.

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• Unless your life arises from your spontaneity, from your very empty heart, it is going to be just superficial. And with the superficial you cannot be blissful.

  Rajneesh

  Heart, Empty, Superficial

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• We need merely understand that the evolutionary process is neither random nor determined but creative. It follows the general pattern of all creativity. While there is no way of fully understanding the origin moment of the universe we can appreciate the direction of evolution in its larger arc of development as moving from lesser to great complexity in structure and from lesser to greater modes of consciousness. We can also understand the governing principles of evolution in terms of its three movements toward differentiation, inner spontaneity, and comprehensive bonding.

  Thomas Berry

  Moving, Creativity, Appreciate

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• I'm a huge fan of Jesus Culture. I absolutely love them. I listen to them a lot. My wife loves them as well. I'm unashamedly a Jesus Culture fan. I love the spontaneity. They'll play a song and it will go for like 25 minutes. That kind of worship, and how they lead people into the presence of God, is just awesome.

  Reuben Morgan

  Song, Jesus, Play

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Catch instants. Spontaneity, freshness.

  Robert Bresson

  Instant, Freshness

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.18, New York Review of Books

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• So, you don't have laughs as a reference point any more, it becomes a bit of a science after that. And the last thing, you would love to be able to depend on a sense of spontaneity, but hours of waiting and then hours of repetition are not conducive to spontaneity so those are your obstacles. On the other hand it's a lot of fun. Plunging into a bit of physical comedy and abandoning all dignity, no one can really hurt you much after you much after that, once you've done it.

  Colin Firth

  Hurt, Fun, Hands

  "Gambit - Colin Firth interview". Press conference, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I have a great deal of respect for the craft, I don't know how much respect it has for me. But it's a precision process. Doing it on stage would be, I think, terrifying. Doing it on film has its own difficulties, because film is not conducive to spontaneity. You might have a run through and get a few chuckles at eight o'clock in the morning, but you don't keep laughing at the same thing all day long.

  Colin Firth

  Running, Morning, Thinking

  "Gambit - Colin Firth interview". Press conference, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• What I've learned is that love is made up of three ingredients: consideration, spontaneity, and [whispers] oral sex for guys and women.

  Damien Lemon

  Sex, Love Is, Guy

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Having the presence of mind to react to any situation onstage is what makes the best performers keep their spontaneity intact.

  Marni Nixon

  Presence Of Mind, Situation, Performers

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• The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.

  Jan Hammer

  Passion, Gone, Music Is

  Interview with Art Connor, www.tbolin.com. February 7, 2001.

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• I was working in this very bombastic style. I didn't really know about style. I didn't think about it: I did what I was interested in, what I was attracted to, what I was drawn to. I was drawn to color, and I was drawn to humor, and I was drawn to sexuality and spontaneity. It was all really intuitive. I never really thought, "Well this is the style...

  David LaChapelle

  Thinking, Color, Style

  David LaChapelle (2008). “David LaChapelle al Forte Belvedere”, Giunti GAMM

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