Spontaneous Quotes - Page 16

• True popular ballads are the spontaneous products of nature.

  Francis James Child

  Popular Song, Spontaneity, Ballads

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• My choices in films are spontaneous.

  Nicole Kidman

  Choices, Film, Spontaneity

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

  John Zorn

  People, Matter, Spontaneity

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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'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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• 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

  Spontaneity, Canals, Deviation

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• 'Efficient' scheduling and control of time are often counterproductive. The efficiency focus creates expectations that clash with the opportunities to develop rich relationships, to meet human needs, and to enjoy spontaneous moments on a daily basis.

  Stephen Covey

  Opportunity, Expectations, Focus

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.184, Mango Media Inc.

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• This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State, that is to say, of spontaneous historical action, which in the long run sustains, nourishes, and impels human destinies.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Running, Destiny, Civilization

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• It all must start with an inspired, spontaneous idea.

  Raymond Loewy

  Ideas, Inspired

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• The creativity and adaptability of life expresses itself through the spontaneous emergence of novelty at critical points of instability. Every human organization contains both designed and emergent structures. The challenge is to find the right balance between the creativity of emergence and the stability of design.

  Fritjof Capra

  Creativity, Organization, Design

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• Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do math. They are expending a vast amount of time and effort in exploring and understanding their immediate world. Healthy education supports and encourages this spontaneous learning.

  David Elkind

  Encouraging, Education, Baby

  David Elkind (1987). “Miseducation: preschoolers at risk”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• At school any spontaneous act was likely to get me into trouble. I learned never to act on impulse, and that whatever came into my mind first should be rejected in favour of better ideas. I learned that my imagination Wasn’t ‘good’ enough. I learned that the first idea was unsatisfactory because it was (1) psychotic; (2) obscene; (3) unoriginal. The truth is that the best ideas are often psychotic, obscene and unoriginal.

  Keith Johnstone

  School, Ideas, Imagination

  Keith Johnstone (2017). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.82, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Careful observation will confirm that virtually all spontaneous parapsychological events occur through some form of sleight of mind. It is invariably something hovering just below the threshold of awareness that initiated an unusual event or gave one a curious half sensed feeling that something was about to happen just before it did. The magician seeks to exploid this effect deliberately, but in doing so he must avoid doing it deliberately as it were. Conscious lust of result destroys magical effect, so trickery must be employed to annul it and to activate the subconscious.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Feelings, Lust, Mind

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• Never forget that the most essential fashion accessories, the ones no woman can afford to do without, come from within. A generous heart, a spontaneous smile, and eyes that sparkle with delight can be part of any woman's signature look once she awakens to her authentic beauty.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Fashion, Heart, Eye

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House

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• As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.

  Diane Frolov

  Life, Struggle, Thinking

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• As you consider whether to move a child into formal academic training, remember that we want our children to do more than just learn how to read and write; we want them to learn in such a way that they become lifelong readers and writers. If we push our children to start learning these skills too far ahead of their own spontaneous interest and their capacity, we may sacrifice the long-range goal of having them enjoy such pursuits.

  Lilian Katz

  Children, Moving, Writing

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• I don’t really have a process. I’m very much an in-the-moment actress. I suppose I just kind of wing it because I feel that as long as I know my character, I should be able to be spontaneous on set.

  Sophie Turner

  Character, Wings, Long

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• Like a lot of what happens in novels, inspiration is
  a sort of spontaneous combustion--the oily rags of the head and heart.

  Stanley Elkin

  Inspiration, Heart, Rags

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• Compassion is the spontaneous wisdom of the heart. It's always with us. It always has been, and always will be. When it arises in us, we've simply learned to see how strong and safe we really are.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Strong, Heart, Compassion

  Eric Swanson, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (2010). “The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness”, p.109, Random House

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• As your training progresses, always remember that the key to gaining the ability for spontaneous and creative technique lies in good ukemi.

  Mitsugi Saotome

  Lying, Keys, Creative

  Mitsugi Saotome (1989). “The Principles of Aikido”, Shambhala Publications

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• Nurture the spontaneous peaceful life.

  Laozi

  Peaceful, Taoism, Nurture

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• Thus the radio elements formed strange and cruel families in which each member was created by spontaneous transformation of the mother substance: radium was a "descendant" of uranium, polonium a descendant of radium.

  Eve Curie

  Mother, Science, Substance

  Ève Curie (1937). “Madame Curie: a biography”

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• In the United States, where it has become almost impossible to use "liberal" in the sense in which I have used it, the term "libertarian" has been used instead. It may be the answer; but for my part I find it singularly unattractive. For my taste it carries too much the flavor of a manufactured term and of a substitute. What I should want is a word which describes the party of life, the party that favors free growth and spontaneous evolution. But I have racked my brain unsuccessfully to find a descriptive term which commends itself.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Party, Growth, Brain

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Postscript: Why I Am Not a Conservative, 1960.

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• I've always felt that I'm in a spontaneous business and if you script something, if you plan something, it will sound that way.

  Al Michaels

  Way, Scripts, Sound

  "Miracle On Ice: One-on-One with Al Michaels, 30 Years Later". Interview with Darren Rovell, www.cnbc.com. February 22, 2010.

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