Spontaneity Quotes - Page 7

• Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in hours of highly repetitive and structured practice--perfecting their shooting, dribbling, and passing and running plays over and over again--and agrees to play a carefully defined role on the court. This is the critical lesson of improve, too, and it is also a key to understanding a puzzle of Millennium Challenge: spontaneity isn't random.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Basketball, Running, Practice

  "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, books.google.ru. April 3, 2007.

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• Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the power of knowing an object through these representations (spontaneity [in the production] of concepts).

  Immanuel Kant

  Spring, Knowledge, Science

  Immanuel Kant (2013). “Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason”, p.61, Read Books Ltd

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• Persuasive communication involves enthusiasm, animation, audience participation, authenticity and spontaneity.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Communication, Enthusiasm

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• Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.

  Claudia Christian

  Spontaneous, Applause, Crew

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• For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. It is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Book, Mean, Expression

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• Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.

  Joe Perry

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Rock N Roll

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• What's so great is that we're making money for AIDS in Africa. There's a lot of love and spontaneity, we're doing something creative. That's what I love about Red. It's not just a charity, "Give us money, give us money." It's being innovative. Like here's a show that you won't see anywhere else and you can come and whatever you pay for your ticket it's going somewhere. You can go and buy a pair of Armani shades, like Bono, but the money goes to Africa. It's quite cool.

  Gavin Friday

  Giving, Creative, Charity

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Something that I tell myself every morning when I wake up is like: "Think it over, take the time to think it over." I don't like spontaneity, there you go. I'm wary of it.

  Jacques Audiard

  Morning, Thinking, Wake Up

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I suddenly understood that photography can fix eternity in a moment. It is the only photo that influenced me. There is such intensity in this image, such spontaneity, such joie de vivre, such miraculousness, that even today it still bowls me over.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Today, Moments

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• In filming you're waiting. You're waiting for lights. You're waiting for people set things up. And when you're not waiting, you're repeating. And neither is conducive to spontaneity, you know. Comedy makes you very, very neurotic because you think, I - but did I nail it?

  Colin Firth

  Thinking, People, Waiting

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I think I am an actress and I'm artistic and I love spontaneity and all of that, but I just decided really early on that if I didn't also try to ground myself I would probably end up like this character of Laura in A Little Help , or like so many young people in Hollywood, sort of go off the rails. So I'm pretty attached to my routines and my grounded ways.

  Jenna Fischer

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end, whether it's writing a song, or playing guitar, or a particular chord sequence, or blowing a horn, it's based on improvisation and spontaneity.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Writing, Guitar

  Interview with Dermot Stokes, Hot Press, March 1978.

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• I prefer a much looser style. Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity - killer. I don't get making sure you get every word right in some stupid speech just because a writer sat there and did it.

  Bruce Campbell

  Stupid, Thinking, Style

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Individual experiences being limited and individual spontaneity feeble, we are strengthened and enriched by assimilating the experience of others.

  George Henry Lewes

  Individual

  George Henry Lewes (1879). “The study of psychology; its object, scope, and method”

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• I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy's is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It's a precision science, in a way. And when you're filming, the thing comedy depends on becomes a much more difficult commodity. The thing you depend on is spontaneity.

  Colin Firth

  Drama, Comedy, Commodity

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I wasn't being critical of myself in the way I can normally be, and I was letting myself follow through with stuff. It was like a prolonged spontaneity.

  Luke Temple

  Stuff, Way, Follow Through

  Interview with James Rickman, therumpus.net. June 30, 2014.

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• I was asked by the National Institute of Health to be their scientific discussant on the effects of these drug [Ritalin] at a big conference they held. Beforehand, I reviewed all of the important literature on the issue. Even with experiments on animals. When they're given these drugs they stop playing; they stop being curious; they stop socializing; they stop trying to escape. We make good caged animals with these drugs. And we make good caged kids by knocking their spontaneity out of them. And, Michael, the other thing is that these drugs enforce obsessive behavior.

  Peter Breggin

  Kids, Animal, Issues

  "The Ritalin Racketeers and Their Chemical Lobotomies – Part I". Interview With Michael Savage, www.whale.to. March 29, 2000.

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• When you're at the basketball court watching a game, one person may be talking about a fight he had with his wife, another is talking about the last hard-on he got, someone else is talking about the presidential election. The language and the tone and the voice - I'd love to be able to capture that spontaneity.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Basketball, Fighting, Talking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think what a lot of people forget is that a lot of the music in the '60s and the '70s was made in the spirit of daring, spontaneity, and adventure, so the minute all that sinks into this sense of a classic form, it has lost its spirit.

  Justin Adams

  Adventure, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• A lot of humour is about just enjoying life and spontaneity and because you make a joke that puts somebody down - we're always teasing each other. It's with affection. It's nasty teasing that we - not all teasing; nasty teasing you cut out.

  John Cleese

  Cutting, Enjoy Life, Nasty

  "Interview: John Cleese and Eric Idle, founding members of Monty Python". Interview with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. February 18, 2016.

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• Man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more he becomes an "individual," has no choice but to unite himself with the world in the spontaneity of love and productive work or else to seek a kind of security by such ties with the world as destroy his freedom and the integrity of his individual self.

  Erich Fromm

  Integrity, Men, Self

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.33, Open Road Media

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• The beauty of the unexpected and unknown, and it's certainly very tantalizing for me as an actor. Other actors can't deal with that; they want to know, but then they make choices and decisions with that knowledge because that knowledge gives them forethought, and they can think about how they want to play something that takes away spontaneity of what they could be doing.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Thinking, Giving, Choices

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• America can be a very hysterical country intellectually and very puritanical, too. You probably have fun in private, but to the rest of the world you seem to hate fun - to be big on agendas and short on spontaneity. The image you present is one of appalling conformity. The thought police is what you are ruled by.

  Doris Lessing

  Country, Fun, Hate

  Source: progressive.org

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• We can only touch spontaneity when we let go of dogma, old beliefs, old certitude's, because these things are what prevents the body to move freely then the body finds space to express completely. For the tantric's it is not to find belief's or to compare beliefs but to destroy beliefs To expand completely To be apart of the wave, everything is a wave, starting at the cellular level to the cosmic level To breath completely, to unfold in all directions

  Daniel Odier

  Letting Go, Moving, Space

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• Both the 18th and the early 20th centuries, however, feature brilliant attacks on originality, and it's no doubt one of the hallmarks of romanticism to care about originality and suppose with a sometimes naive spontaneity that it's all that matters.

  Paul Fry

  Doubt, Care, Matter

  "Originality matters". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 10, 2012.

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