Spontaneity Quotes - Page 7

• 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'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character.

  Michael Richards

  Character, Association, Envelopes

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• Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

  Thornton Wilder

  Children, Winning, Want

  Interview in "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, First Series", edited by Malcolm Cowley, 1958.

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• All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Play, Appreciate

  "The Multi-Instrumentalist Returns: A Conversation With Andrew Bird". Interview with Gazelle Emami, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2011.

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• Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.

  Paul McGann

  Real, Telling Stories, Tough

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• We can only touch spontaneity when we let go of dogma, old beliefs, old certitude's, because these things are what prevents the body to move freely then the body finds space to express completely. For the tantric's it is not to find belief's or to compare beliefs but to destroy beliefs To expand completely To be apart of the wave, everything is a wave, starting at the cellular level to the cosmic level To breath completely, to unfold in all directions

  Daniel Odier

  Letting Go, Moving, Space

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• Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Earth, Instinct, Unconsciousness

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• If one partner gives himself completely, he breaks down the barriers of the other, however strong they may be. Because the act of giving means: "I trust you". The other, who to begin with may feel rather intimidated, wanting to prove things which aren't even under discussion, is unarmed by the spontaneity of such an attitude, and relaxes. At that moment, true sexual energy comes into play.

  Paulo Coelho

  Strong, Attitude, Mean

  Paulo Coelho (2015). “Warrior of the Light -”, p.7, Booklassic

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• Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Prepared

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• Solitude is used to teach us how to live with other people. Rage is used to show us the infinite value of peace. Boredom is used to underline the importance of adventure & spontaneity. Silence is used to teach us to use words responsibly. Tiredness is used so that we can understand the value of waking up. Illness is used to underline the blessing of good health. Fire is used to teach us about water. Earth is used so that we can understand the value of air. Death is used to show us the importance of life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Adventure, Blessing, Air

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• The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into his permanence.

  Barry Finnerty

  Music, Challenges, Jazz

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• The world of life, of spontaneity, the world of dawn and sunset and starlight, the world of soil and sunshine, of meadow and woodland, of hickory and oak and maple and hemlock and pineland forests, of wildlife dwelling around us, of the river and its wellbeing--all of this [is] the integral community in which we live.

  Thomas Berry

  Nature, Sunset, Sunshine

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• Man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more he becomes an "individual," has no choice but to unite himself with the world in the spontaneity of love and productive work or else to seek a kind of security by such ties with the world as destroy his freedom and the integrity of his individual self.

  Erich Fromm

  Integrity, Men, Self

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.33, Open Road Media

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• The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience .

  Matthew Arnold

  Ideas, Consciousness, Hellenism

  Matthew Arnold, Stefan Collini (1993). “Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other Writings”, p.20, Cambridge University Press

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• You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.

  Maurice Ravel

  Ravel, Might, Firsts

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• I think I am an actress and I'm artistic and I love spontaneity and all of that, but I just decided really early on that if I didn't also try to ground myself I would probably end up like this character of Laura in A Little Help , or like so many young people in Hollywood, sort of go off the rails. So I'm pretty attached to my routines and my grounded ways.

  Jenna Fischer

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Standards of beauty describe in precise terms the relationship that an individual will have to her own body. They prescribe her mobility, spontaneity, posture, gait, the uses to which she can use her body. They define precisely the dimension of her physical freedom and psychological development, intellectual possibility, and creative potential is an umbilical one.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Creative, Intellectual, Dimensions

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• I'm a guy that appreciates spontaneity and a woman being genuine and different.

  Trey Songz

  Appreciate, Guy, Different

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• I don’t care about the rules. In fact, if I don’t break the rules at least ten times in every song, then I’m not doing my job properly. Emotion is much more important than making mistakes, so be prepared to look like a chump. If you become too guarded and too processed, the music loses its spontaneity and gut feeling

  Jeff Beck

  Song, Jobs, Mistake

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• When two people in a marriage are more concerned about getting the golden eggs, the benefits, than they are in preserving the relationship that makes them possible, they often become insensitive and inconsiderate, neglecting the little kindnesses and courtesies so important to a deep relationship. They begin to use control levers to manipulate each other, to focus on their own needs, to justify their own position and look for evidence to show the wrongness of the other person. The love, the richness, the softness and spontaneity begin to deteriorate.

  Stephen Covey

  Love, Kindness, Eggs

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Dialogue should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Real, Writing, Should

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• Animated films are so precisely engineered - right down to forming lines of dialogue with words pulled from several different takes - how do you translate that spontaneity from the live-action to the digital realm?

  Gore Verbinski

  Different, Lines, Digital

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• A lot of my albums that Ive done, a lot of the songs have been the first take. Its before you mess with it too much - you can take away all the spontaneity and the emotion of something by trying to make it sound perfect.

  Liz Callaway

  Song, Perfect, Trying

  "InDepth InterView: Liz Callaway & BOOM!". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 14, 2011.

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• The erotic state – again, a mixture of concentration and spontaneity – is a hypnoidal state, probably the most powerful kind that we are capable of experiencing, and it is in this condition that unexpected regions of the self are revealed, as the majority of people know from experience.

  Peter Redgrove

  Powerful, Self, People

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