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• With kids, they force you to get out of bed. They force you to smile. They remind you of spontaneity.

  Fred D'Aguiar

  Kids, Bed, Force

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Essence, Inquiry, Genius

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• My principal failing as a writer is the lack of spontaneity; the nuisance of parallel thoughts, second thoughts, third thoughts; inability to express myself properly in any language unless I compose every damned sentence in my bath, in my mind, at my desk.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Mind, Inability, Nuisance

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and control, between sensibility and self-discipline, simplicity and sophistication of style that is his particular province... Mozart tapped once again the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breath-taking rightness that has never since been duplicated.

  Aaron Copland

  Self, Discipline, Simplicity

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• There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity.

  George Saunders

  Real, Community, Different

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• All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Action, Forget, Moments

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.210, Penguin

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• If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity.

  Francoise Sagan

  Imagination, Mad, Becoming

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• Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Acting, Want, All Time

  Interview with Ingrid Sischy and Amanda Duberman, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2012.

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• Life and the Universe show spontaneity;Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;Truth must be sought with the Positivists.

  Mortimer Collins

  Religion, Church, Deities

  Mortimer Collins, F. Percy Cotton (1886). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Mortimer Collins”

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• There is something else to be said about this immediate, spontaneous way of working, and that is this: in such moments, one is playing at the game of creation.

  Henry Miller

  Games, Way, Moments

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• Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.

  Germaine Greer

  Women, Generosity, Addiction

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• That one thing you do give up when you get married is that magic moment of meeting someone, and the sparks and the spontaneity.

  Katie Aselton

  Giving Up, Magic Moments, Meeting Someone

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

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• When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity...I can be sure that I am right.

  Federico Fellini

  Explanation, I Can

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• If you confine it, you're confining a whole thing. If you make it spontaneous, so that anything can happen, like we don't want to confine or restrict anything. What we can do, whatever we can let happen, you just let it happen.

  Alice Cooper

  Want, Spontaneous, Anything Can Happen

  Interview with Mike Quigley, September 1969.

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• The rich fruit of spontaneity grows in the garden that is well tended by the discipline of schedule.

  John Piper

  Garden, Discipline, Schedules

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• It's not just that toil allows the appearance of spontaneity. It allows the actuality of spontaneity.

  Paul Kane

  Toil, Appearance, Actuality

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• I believe that all creativity and consciousness is born in the quality of play, as opposed to work, in the quickened intuitional spontaneity that I see as a constant through all my own existences, and in the experience of those I know.

  Seth

  Believe, Creativity, Play

  Jane Roberts, Seth (1972). “Seth speaks: the eternal validity of the soul”, Bookthrift Co

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• Spontaneity is an infinite number of rehearsed possibilities.

  Peter Drucker

  Numbers, Infinite, Possibility

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• Preparation for any role is a must, so that when the shot is happening, it's about reacting and living that moment. One must be so prepared that spontaneity comes!

  Arjun Kapoor

  Preparation, Roles, Moments

  Source: www.indiawest.com

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• We’ve educated children to think that spontaneity is inappropriate. Children are willing to expose themselves to experiences. We aren’t. Grownups always say they protect their children, but they’re really protecting themselves. Besides, you can’t protect children. They know everything.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Thinking, Inappropriate

  "The Paternal Pride of Maurice Sendak" by Bernard Holland, www.nytimes.com. November 8, 1987.

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• Chuang Tzu and Heidegger both emphasise the virtue of 'spontaneity' - a sort of mindful responsiveness to things as they are. It's this notion, I suspect, that is the best bet for helping to make some sense of talk about harmony or unity with nature.

  David E. Cooper

  Unity, Helping, Heidegger

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• When you are in deep meditation, you feel a great serenity, a joy that is unknown to you, a watchfulness that is a new guest. Soon this watchfulness will become the host. The day the watchfulness becomes the host, it remains twenty-four hours with you. And out of this watchfulness, whatever you do has a wisdom in it. Whatever you do shows a clarity, a purity, a spontaneity, a grace.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Joy, Serenity

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• While traveling, I've found that spontaneity keeps things fresh, while serendipity guides me through it all. There have been a lot of rough moments along the way, but they often bear the best memories.

  Joseph Pisani

  Memories, Serendipity, Bears

  "Oh Sweet Serendipity". Inside Switzerland magazine, Winter 2007.

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• Play, creativity, art, spontaneity, all these experiences are their own rewards and are blocked when we perform for reward or punishment, profit or loss.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Art, Creativity, Loss

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.45, Penguin

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• Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.

  Henri Poincare

  Discovery, Generations, Spontaneous

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