Spontaneous Quotes - Page 13

• It's hard to beat the visceral high of playing live and creating something spontaneous.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Creating, Beats, Visceral

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• When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Thinking, Feet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.106, Harvard University Press

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• Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Humanity, Tasks, Social Behavior

  R. Buckminster Fuller “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Spontaneous kindness is to hipsters as high beams are to deer.

  Jeph Jacques

  Kindness, Hipster, Deer

  "Questionable Content". Webcomic by Jeph Jacques, Number 430, questionablecontent.net. 2003-2005.

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• A spontaneous act of generosity, performed with unselfish grace is an example of moral beauty, as are certain acts of courage; genuine modesty is a possible example, as is selfless love. Although moral beauty is a natural gift, it is nevertheless more likely to emerge and flourish in societies that appreciate and encourage it.

  Yi-Fu Tuan

  Beauty, Generosity, Appreciate

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• The fun-seekers, I noted, were spontaneous and flexible. They approached each day and each situation with a willingness to ride whatever wave came along, just for the experience of it. The complainers, on the other hand, would only catch a wave if it was exactly to their liking. Anything else drew loud protestations about how it was not what they expected.

  Alice Steinbach

  Fun, Hands, Each Day

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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, Spontaneity, Deliberation

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

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• The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Feelings, Movement, Solicitude

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• I suddenly recall the arpeggios of laughter lilting across the tender, springtime grass-gay-welling, far-floating, fluent, spontaneous, a bell-like feminine fluting, then suppressed; as though snuffed swiftly and irrevocably beneath the quiet solemnity of the vespered air now vibrant with somber chapel bells.

  Ralph Ellison

  Laughter, Gay, Air

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.134, Vintage

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• An educator should think of a child as a gardener thinks of a plant, as something to be made to grow by having the right soil and the right amount of water. If your roses fail to bloom, it does not occur to you to whip them, but you try to find out what has been amiss in your treatment of them. ... The important thing is what the children do, and not what they do not do. And what they do, if it is to have value, must be a spontaneous expression of their own vital energy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Children, Teaching, Thinking

  "The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959".

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• The first thing I notice about a girl, is her hands. I like girls with nice hands. ... And she must be spontaneous as well.

  Bill Kaulitz

  Girl, Nice, Hands

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Fine conduct is always spontaneous.

  Seneca the Younger

  Behavior, Fine

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• Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sacrifice, Men, Reflection

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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• I have a lot of heroes. I don't think people give enough of a tribute to their mentors. They try to act like they're spontaneous generations - they are faking liars.

  John Leguizamo

  Liars, Hero, Thinking

  "John Leguizamo On Outsourcing, Obama and Mood Swings". Interview with Greg Archer, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2, 2010.

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• I actually take images of things and put them up around the wall and in a room. I set a room aside. It might be colors, it might be animals, or energy and words. And I'll just leave it there, so it begins to work on my subconscious when I think about the character. Which gives me some latitude to be really flexible and spontaneous but within the context of the character and the world of the character without having to think about it. Or I'll look at something or read something and let it work on my subconscious mind.

  Wesley Snipes

  Wall, Character, Animal

  Source: collider.com

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• If the church could catch a vision for using video technology to present an authentic presentation of the life of the church - not rehearsed videos, but spontaneous records of conversations, laughing with one another, weeping with one another, people sharing their lives, etc. - the average person might take notice.

  Frank Minis Johnson

  Technology, Average, People

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• I need to keep it spontaneous as an artist, so for me to repeat a face would be redundant and boring.

  Chris Mars

  Artist, Would Be, Needs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I had a babysitter when I was 12 or younger. I had a big crush on her. She was really spontaneous and fun and loved to make us sing and dance and paint. She was the coolest person in the world. I guess I did have my young love. I did everything to impress her. Everything possible. It was just ridiculous.

  Zac Efron

  Crush, Fun, Young Love

  "Zac Efron Interview, Dr. Seuss' The Lorax". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. August 28, 2018.

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• One needs the invented, the spontaneous, the impromptu for ritual. Skepticism, that grain of salt, is inappropriate.

  E. M. Broner

  Grain Of Salt, Needs, Inappropriate

  E. M. Broner (1999). “Bringing Home the Light: A Jewish Woman's Handbook of Rituals”, Council Oaks Distribution

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• In a good meeting there is a momentum that comes from the spontaneous exchange of fresh ideas and produces extraordinary results. That momentum depends on the freedom permitted the participants.

  Harold Geneen

  Ideas, Momentum, Results

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• It is a matter of fact; I approached without a preconceived idea, too ready to declare, if the experiment had imposed upon me the confession, that there was a spontaneous generation, of
  which I am convinced today that those who assure it are blindfolded.

  Louis Pasteur

  Ideas, Generations, Matter

  Address at the "Sorbonne Scientific Soirée", April 07, 1864.

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• My opinion - nay more, my conviction - is that, in the present state of science, as you rightly say, spontaneous generation is a chimera; and it would be impossible for you to contradict me, for my experiments all stand forth to prove that spontaneous generation is a chimera.

  Louis Pasteur

  Would Be, Generations, Opinion

  "The Life of Pasteur". Book by René Vallery-Radot, translated by R .L. Devonshire, archive.org. 1902.

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• I've always been quite a spontaneous person, so I would lean more towards, if you feel it and you know its right, then do it.

  Emily Blunt

  Feels, Persons, Knows

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 22, 2012.

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• I crave the diversity because I'm an actor and it's more fun to play different types of characters, but I'm pretty spontaneous as well, so I don't rule anything out.

  Kristen Bell

  Fun, Character, Play

  "Kristen Bell HOUSE OF LIES Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 28, 2012.

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• I was shooting lots of large format portraits then but I've since changed to digital, where you have so much more control. There are millions of things you can do with digital; you can be more spontaneous, and you're more in control of your color palette.

  Gregory Heisler

  Color, Portraits, Shooting

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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