Spontaneity Quotes - Page 10

• Without spontaneity in any sport, you cannot succeed.

  Eric Cantona

  Sports, Succeed

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• The Tao's principle is spontaneity.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Principles, Tao

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• I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now.... ... it's not a question of the merit of art, but a question of spontaneity and sincerity and joy I say. I would like everybody in the world to tell his full life confession and tell it his own way and then we'd have something to read in our old age.

  Jack Kerouac

  Art, Writing, Joy

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• There is no heaven and there is no hell. They are not geographical, they are part of your psychology. They are psychological. To live the life of spontaneity, truth, love, beauty is to live in heaven. To live the life of hypocrisy, lies, compromises,to live according to others, is to live in hell. To live in freedom is heaven, and to live in subjection is hell.

  Rajneesh

  Lying, Live Life, Love Is

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• By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain in return is freedom, openness of mind, spontaneity, simplicity, altruism: all qualities inherent in happiness.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Buddhism, Self, Long

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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 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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• The body has to be looked after: one has to be very caring about the body and very loving to the body. And then, its very spontaneity purifies it, makes it holy.

  Rajneesh

  Caring, Body, Holy

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• One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.

  Glenn Howerton

  Drama, Play, Television

  "EXCLUSIVE: Glenn Howerton Reminds Us Why It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. September 05, 2007.

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• Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the method of 'the flying white', of the rule of the singular stroke of the brush.. ..there is a proper tradition in which the artist is fully aware of the fact that only the pure and empty spontaneity enables him to embrace without hesitating all apparitions and to truly penetrate into the roots of things.

  Antoni Tapies

  Artist, Roots, White

  "Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 - 2003" by Antoni Tapies, Kunsthalle Emden, edited by Achim Sommer, Altana, (p. 38), 2004.

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• It excites world wonder in the Parliamentary countries that we should build a Chamber, starting afresh, which can only seat two-thirds of its Members. It is difficult to explain this to those who do not know our ways. They cannot easily be made to understand why we consider that the intensity, passion, intimacy, informality and spontaneity of our Debates constitute the personality of the House of Commons and endow it at once with its focus and its strength.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Passion, Two

  "Motion for Address in Reply". Speech in the House of Commons, api.parliament.uk. October 24, 1950.

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• Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Thinking, Routine, Spirit

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.

  Robert Genn

  Drawing, Tyranny, Freshness

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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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• Copying is an art in itself, demanding the greatest technical ability, especially in watercolour. However well done, the copy invariably lacks that nascent, ineffable, but definite quality, provided by the furious enthusiasm with which an original is created, an essential spontaneity that defies reproduction.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Art, Quality, Copying

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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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• 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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• Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.

  Thomas Carlyle

  War, Men, Technology

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.356, CUP Archive

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• The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

  Margaret Mead

  Marriage, Men, Civilization

  "Male and Female". Margaret Mead, Ladies' Home Journal, Volume 66 (p. 36), September 1949.

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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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• Believe, then, that you are a being unlimited by nature, born into flesh to materialize as best you can the great joy and spontaneity of your nature.

  Jane Roberts

  Happiness, Believe, Joy

  Jane Roberts (2011). “The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know”, p.81, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• [on her role as Special Agent Dana Scully on The X-Files (1993)] I am more spontaneous than my character.

  Gillian Anderson

  Character, Spontaneous

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.

  Lewis Mumford

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Revenge

  "The Conduct Of Life" by Lewis Mumford, Ch. 1, 1951.

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• Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Prepared

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