Spontaneity Quotes - Page 3

• Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.

  Victor Hugo

  Mind, Too Much, Void

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.116, Modern Library

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• To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which "life" is made.

  Stephen Covey

  Opportunity, Would Be, Unexpected

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.570, Mango Media Inc.

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• Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises.

  Erma Bombeck

  Wonderful, Surprise, Spontaneous

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• There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course.

  Terence Fisher

  Loss, Preparation, Important

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• Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.

  Chuck Barris

  Shows, Facets, Show Business

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• If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and the most difficult liberation process we went trough, the one that has distinguished our art, was the freeing of colour, the transition to a painterly spontaneity.

  Asger Jorn

  Art, Often Is, Important

  "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 162), 2002.

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• There should be no separation between spontaneous work with an emotional tone and work directed by the intellect. Both are supplementary to each other and must be regarded as intimately connected. Discipline and freedom are thus to be seen as elements of equal weight, each partaking of the other.

  Armin Hofmann

  Freedom, Work, Equality

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• Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.

  Bertrand Russell

  Two, Important, Machines

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.67, Psychology Press

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• All growth is a leap in the dark.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Dark, Growth

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.90, New Directions Publishing

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• Reintegration with Nature, which we are, is the recovery of spontaneity.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Recovery, Reintegration

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• Humans are powerful spiritual beings meant to create good on earth. This good isn't usually accomplished in bold actions, but in singular acts of kindness between people. It's the little things that count, because they are more spontaneous and show who you truly are.

  Dannion Brinkley

  Spiritual, Powerful, Kindness

  Dannion Brinkley, Paul Perry (2009). “Saved by the Light: The True Story of a Man Who Died Twice and the Profound Revelations He Received”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• Just the pleasure of moving and the pleasure of using your body is, I think, maybe the main point. And the pleasure of dancing with somebody in an unplanned and spontaneous way, when you're free to invent and they're free to invent and you're neither one hampering the other - that's a very pleasant social form.

  Steve Paxton

  Dance, Moving, Thinking

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• I just get the will to do it.  I don’t plan a photograph in advance…  I work by impulse.  No philosophy.  No ideas.  Not by the head but by the eyes.  Eventually inspiration comes-instinct is the same as inspiration, and eventually it comes.

  Manuel Alvarez Bravo

  Photography, Philosophy, Inspiration

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• All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Courage, Dark

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.90, New Directions Publishing

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• Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Spring, Creativity, Analysis

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• The heart yields spontaneity; the mind bends to understanding.

  Ameen Rihani

  Heart, Yield, Understanding

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• Spontaneity has its time and its place.

  Arthur F. Burns

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• We've educated children to think spontaneity is inappropriate.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Thinking, Inappropriate

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• Spontaneity comes after skill, not before.

  Mason Cooley

  Skills

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• We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

  Judith Martin

  Positive, Society, Belief

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  Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he called "the love of your fate." Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, "This is what I need." It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment-not discouragement-you will find the strength is there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow.

  Joseph Campbell

  Success, Jobs, Character

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• In reality, there is a single integral community of the Earth that includes all its component members whether human or other than human. In this community every being has its own role to fulfill, its own dignity, its own inner spontaneity. Every being has its own voice. Every being declares itself to the entire universe. Every being enters into communion with other beings.
  
  In every phase of our imaginative, aesthetic, and emotional lives we are profoundly dependent on this larger context of the surrounding world.

  Thomas Berry

  Life, Reality, Emotional

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• Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ideas, Mind, Might

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• I would like [the working man] to give me back books and newspapers and theories. And I would like to give him back, in return, his old insouciance, and rich, original spontaneity and fullness of life.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Book, Men, Fullness Of Life

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Fantasia of the Unconscious”, p.143, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Mozart tapped the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breathtaking rightness.

  Aaron Copland

  Flow, Breathtaking, Source

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