Spontaneous Quotes

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  Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

  Laozi

  Life, Change, Spiritual

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• The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that.

  Jeff Wall

  Beautiful, Art, Spontaneity

  Jeff Wall, Museum Moderner Kunst (Austria) (2003). “Jeff Wall: photographs”, Walther Konig

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• Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

  e. e. cummings

  Life, Confidence, Believe

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• The point of the journey is not just healing. It's also recovering the truest, most spontaneous, joyful, and creative core of ourselves.

  Gloria Steinem

  Life, Healing, Journey

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.128, Open Road Media

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• Spontaneous love admits errors, hesitations and human failings. It can be tested and repaired.

  Nancy Friday

  Errors, Failing, Hesitation

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• Do not be afraid that too much labour over the composition is going to kill the spontaneity. Those who absorb and digest their experiences are, of a sudden, mountains of strength and can produce pictures with spontaneous start and finish.

  John F. Carlson

  Mountain, Too Much, Spontaneity

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.131, Courier Corporation

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• I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to evolution.

  George Wald

  Believe, Generations, Want

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• If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Different, Spontaneity

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

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• To be spontaneous means not to act out of the past, because out of the past is all cunningness, cleverness, calculation, arithmetic.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Past, Spontaneity

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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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• 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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• 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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• Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

  Laozi

  Change, Life Changing, Acceptance

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  Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

  William Wordsworth

  Powerful, Poetry, Feelings

  Lyrical Ballads 2nd ed., preface (1802) See Dorothy Parker 24

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• No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

  Edgar Degas

  Art, Reflection, Study

  Ann Dumas, Edgar Degas (1996). “Degas As a Collector”

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• The way to my heart is by being truthful and spontaneous.

  Michelle Trachtenberg

  Heart, Way, Truthful

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• Dismiss thoughts of 'good, bad, right, wrong, success, failure' - be spontaneous.

  Joshua L. Goldberg

  Spontaneity, Success Failure, Be Spontaneous

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• The best is that which is most spontaneous or seemingly so.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Isamu Noguchi, Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, Bonnie Rychlak, Isamu Noguchi Foundation (2004). “A sculptor's world”, Steidl / Edition7L

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• Doing reality TV is a lot harder than I thought because I come from the world of [scripted] television where everything is thought out and you know what's going to happen, your lines, what your wardrobe is going to be, etc. But with reality, it's very spontaneous and the cameras are around for 12 hours a day.

  Tia Mowry

  Reality, Cameras, Television

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• When the entire process becomes a prescribed ritual that does not allow for spontaneous variations and reactions, the vitality of the medium and our relation to it suffers.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Suffering, Vitality, Doe

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• Most modern biologists, having reviewed with satisfaction the downfall of the spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternative belief in special creation, are left with nothing.

  George Wald

  Special, Generations, Alternatives

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• What would happen if you melted? You know, you never really hear this talked about much, but spontaneous combustion? It exists!... [people] burn from within... sometimes they'll be in a wooden chair and the chair won't burn, but there'll be nothing left of the person. Except sometimes his teeth. Or the heart. No one speaks about this, but its for real.

  Keanu Reeves

  Real, Heart, People

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

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• I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Flower, Long

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• I am neither spontaneous nor ready for anything.

  David Rakoff

  Spontaneity, Ready

  David Rakoff (2005). “Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems”, p.76, Anchor

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• That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.

  Karl Urban

  Inspiration, Trying, Littles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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