Spontaneous Quotes - Page 15

• Spontaneous kindness is to hipsters as high beams are to deer.

  Jeph Jacques

  Kindness, Hipster, Deer

  "Questionable Content". Webcomic by Jeph Jacques, Number 430, questionablecontent.net. 2003-2005.

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• A spontaneous act of generosity, performed with unselfish grace is an example of moral beauty, as are certain acts of courage; genuine modesty is a possible example, as is selfless love. Although moral beauty is a natural gift, it is nevertheless more likely to emerge and flourish in societies that appreciate and encourage it.

  Yi-Fu Tuan

  Beauty, Generosity, Appreciate

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• The fun-seekers, I noted, were spontaneous and flexible. They approached each day and each situation with a willingness to ride whatever wave came along, just for the experience of it. The complainers, on the other hand, would only catch a wave if it was exactly to their liking. Anything else drew loud protestations about how it was not what they expected.

  Alice Steinbach

  Fun, Hands, Each Day

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• Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Action, Spontaneity, Deliberation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.148

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• Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Humanity, Tasks, Social Behavior

  R. Buckminster Fuller “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• It's hard to beat the visceral high of playing live and creating something spontaneous.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Creating, Beats, Visceral

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• Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Awareness, Easy

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• There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Choices, Made

  "4D Timelock". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, 1928.

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• The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Events, World, Lasts

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.254, Vintage

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• The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda.

  Michele Bachmann

  Party, Rose, Tea

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• I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

  George Bernard Shaw

  World, Gestures, Retorts

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• The more we know about how we lost our spontaneous wonder and creativity, the more we can find ways to get them back.

  John Bradshaw

  Lost Love, Creativity, Frustrated

  John Bradshaw (2013). “Homecoming: Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child”, p.5, Bantam

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• I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Writing, Schedules, Goes On

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• To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel.

  Maurice Ravel

  Writing, Quality, Ravel

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• By 17, I had a whole band that would go in and play. It was called Spontaneous Inventions, after a Bobby McFerrin album.

  Brian McKnight

  Play, Albums, Band

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• Sometimes the spirit is playing you. I call it following the will of the music, and when that feeling shows up, you just go with it. It's almost like I'm a bystander. I'm watching this happening, and it's not a mental process. It's just spontaneous.

  Charlie Musselwhite

  Bystanders, Feelings, Spirit

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.

  C. S. Lewis

  Looks, Ends, Enjoyment

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have always loved jazz music and as a teen growing up in New York City and then later on as an adult have great memories of the jazz clubs that were all located on 52nd Street. I still catch as many jazz shows as I can when I am in New York. And when I perform, I have my jazz quartet by my side. Jazz musicians keep things spontaneous and very "live," which is the way I like to perform.

  Tony Bennett

  New York, Growing Up, Memories

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Do not forget that chiropractors did not treat diseases. They adjust causes, whether acquired, spontaneous, or the result of accident.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Disease, Causes, Forget

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• Revolt is the violence of an entire people; rebellion the unruliness of an individual or an uprising by a minority; both are spontaneous and blind. Revolution is both planned and spontaneous, a science and an art.

  Octavio Paz

  Art, Uprising, People

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.141, Arcade Publishing

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• Let man only approach his own self with a deep respect, even reverence for all that the creative soul, the God-mystery within us, puts forth. Then we shall all be sound and free. Lewdness is hateful because it impairs our integrity and our proud being. The creative, spontaneous soul sends forth its promptings of desire and aspiration in us. These promptings are our true fate, which is our business to fulfill. A fate dictated from outside, from theory or from circumstance, is a false fate.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fate, Self, Creative

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• A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Groups, Determined

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Icarus; or, the Future of Science”, p.10, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Believe, Generations, Looks

  "Malcolm McLaren on bringing bollocks back to the BBC" by Malcolm McLaren, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2008.

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• A small venue is so much more intimate and loose. You can actually be more spontaneous, I feel.

  Suzy Bogguss

  Spontaneity, Intimate, Venues

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• True success is the progressive expansion of happiness. It is the ability to express spontaneous joy and share it with others.

  Deepak Chopra

  Joy, Expansion, Progressive

  Twitter post from Aug 6, 2013

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