Spontaneity Quotes - Page 5

• Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.

  Billy Joel

  Writing, Blood, Hot

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• The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Doors, Growth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.390, Рипол Классик

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• True popular ballads are the spontaneous products of nature.

  Francis James Child

  Popular Song, Spontaneous, Ballads

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• My choices in films are spontaneous.

  Nicole Kidman

  Choices, Film, Spontaneous

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• Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.

  Joe Perry

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Rock N Roll

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• Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Beautiful, Emotion, Speak

  Tariq Ramadan (2010). “The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism”, p.141, Penguin UK

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• Spontaneity is the province of youth

  Jacqueline Carey

  Youth, Provinces

  Jacqueline Carey (2016). “Kushiel’s Legacy: (Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen, Kushiel's Avatar)”, p.1091, Macmillan

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• Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

  Emma ch. 30 (1816)

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• The modern spirit is a hesitant one. Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms, and the age of heroes has been superseded by a cult of specialization. We have no more giants; only obedient ants.

  Roger Lowenstein

  Hero, Age, Giants

  Roger Lowenstein (2013). “Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist”, p.177, Random House

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• Travel releases spontaneity. You become a godlike creature full or choice, free to visit the stately pleasure domes, make love in the morning, sketch a bell tower, read a history of Byzantium, stare for one hour at the face of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Madonna dei fusi.' You open, as in childhood, and--for a time--receive this world. There's visceral aspect, too--the huntress who is free. Free to go, free to return home bringing memories to lay on the hearth.

  Frances Mayes

  Morning, Memories, Home

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• There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity.

  Galt Niederhoffer

  Summer, Depressing, Rainy Day

  Galt Niederhoffer (2008). “The Romantics”, p.9, Macmillan

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• ...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she could not avert.

  Edith Wharton

  Fate, Feelings, Lost

  Edith Wharton (2001). “Summer”, p.138, Electric Book Company

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• Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own time is ridden with empty insincere formalities, you plump for spontaneity, for indecorous behavior even...Much of morality is the task of compensating for one's age. One assumes unfashionable virtues, in an indecorous time. In a time hollowed out by decorum, one must school oneself in spontaneity.

  Susan Sontag

  School, Assessment, Judging

  Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.135, Macmillan

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• Persuasive communication involves enthusiasm, animation, audience participation, authenticity and spontaneity.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Communication, Enthusiasm

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• How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. By accepting the human condition more simply, and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Earth, Littles, Slipping

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• You ask, 'How to live my life?' But with the question you are suffocating life itself, for life is spontaneity.

  Mooji

  Life Is, Living My Life, Asks

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• Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

  Dick Morris

  Spontaneous, Grassroots, Combustion

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• I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.

  Alejo Carpentier

  Spontaneous, Harmony, Composition

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• Writers and filmakers, that is, people who describe the world, suffer from an occupational disease. They never experience moments in life quite spontaneously. You always look at yourself from the outside. Even as a child I always observed myself and the world. I believe that everyone who chooses this path in any way, who chooses to be a describer of life, suffers from this condition. It's like a mental obsession. It can be a great pity too. It robs you of a certain joy in spontaneity.

  Michael Haneke

  Children, Believe, People

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• Mapping out dozens of deeply focused trips around the world has convinced me that preparation no more spoils the chance for spontaneity and serendipity than discipline ruins the opportunity for genuine self-expression in sports, acting, or the tea ceremony.

  Phil Cousineau

  Sports, Opportunity, Self

  Phil Cousineau (2012). “The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred”, p.71, Conari Press

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• Structure ignites spontaneity. Limits yield intensity. When we play... by our self-chosen rules, we find that containment of strength amplifies strength.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Yield, Self, Play

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• It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge.

  John Zorn

  People, Matter, Spontaneous

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• The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.

  Anatole Broyard

  Book, Reading, Talking

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• When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

  Henry James Sumner Maine

  Law, Development, May

  Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.13, Beard Books

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• I think you never want to have to go into the scene having to improvise; you want to make sure its working on the page. But I do like to have the ability to try stuff just in the moment, to give it some sort of spontaneity.

  Ben Stiller

  Thinking, Giving, Trying

  "Ben Stiller, Dick Van Dyke for “Night at the Museum”". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. December 12, 2006.

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