Spontaneous Quotes - Page 16

• Climbing is an artistic, creative thing; it's about being spontaneous, traveling, seeing the world, hanging out. It's a balance of setting goals while enjoying the process, being ambitious without being too competitive.

  Chris Sharma

  Climbing, Goal, Creative

  Source: espn.go.com

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• I try to shoot the first rehearsal because people are more spontaneous. People in real life don't really know where they are going to be either positioning themselves or how they will be saying their words. When people goof during the first take, it usually looks realistic.

  Gus Van Sant

  Real, People, Trying

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I'm so bad at spontaneous impressions.

  Ana Gasteyer

  Impression

  "Actress Ana Gasteyer Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. March 24, 2012.

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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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• When it comes to the origin of life there are only two possibilities: creation or spontaneous generation. There is no third way. Spontaneous generation was disproved one hundred years ago, but that leads us to only one other conclusion, that of supernatural creation. We cannot accept that on philosophical grounds; therefore, we choose to believe the impossible: that life arose spontaneously by chance!

  George Wald

  Believe, Philosophical, Origin Of Life

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• [My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Humanity, Vision, World

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• The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is the most characteristic mental trait of mankind. It issues in an unconscious, spontaneous process of abstraction, which goes on all the time in the human mind: a process of recognizing the concept in any configuration given to experience, and forming a conception accordingly. That is the real sense of Aristotle's definition of Man as "the rational animal".

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Real, Animal, Men

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• ...you have the opportunity to free fall in this moment between birth and death, right through the hole of your fear, into the unthreatenable openess which is the source of your gifts. The superior man lives as this spontaneous sacrifice of love.

  David Deida

  Fall, Sacrifice, Opportunity

  David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.341, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I always think of comedy as being spontaneous, and yet everything about filmmaking is not spontaneous.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Thinking, Comedy, Filmmaking

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• The reason the contracts are so long is because actors are very spontaneous; we may want to do Shakespeare one day and be Porky Pig the next!

  Jorja Fox

  Pigs, Long, One Day

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• It (the Chinese move to embrace capitalism in 1989) is a mirror of the corporatist state first pioneered in Chile under Pinochet: a revolving door between corporate and political elites who combine their power to eliminate workers as an organized political force. The creation of today's market society was not the result of a sequence of spontaneous events but rather of state interference and violence.

  Naomi Klein

  Moving, Mirrors, Doors

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• Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.

  Bob Brown

  Wealth, States, Reactions

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

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• The practice of the Christian life consists of the discernment of (the seeing and hearing), and the reliance upon (the reckless and uncalculating dependence), and the celebration (the ready and spontaneous enjoyment) of the presence of the Word of God in the common life of the world.

  William Stringfellow

  Christian, Practice, World

  William Stringfellow (1999). “A Private and Public Faith”, p.56, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.

  Alejo Carpentier

  Spontaneity, Harmony, Composition

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• Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hope, Learning, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1136, Delphi Classics

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• Improvisation helps because you get what's on the page and you make it a little more palatable to your tongue. And that's the beauty of creating and being spontaneous. That's the way I love to work.

  Taraji P. Henson

  Creating, Littles, Pages

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• Preparing to improvise is at a level commensurate with mastering the structure in a European classical piece. Another way to define improvisation is spontaneous melody. In order to improvise, a player first needs to have memorized and analyzed the harmonic structure of so many pieces.

  Jimmy Heath

  Player, Order, Needs

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• The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.

  John Dewey

  Children, Self, Expression

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• It's a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.

  Henrik Ibsen

  World, Liberation, Unconditional

  Henrik Ibsen, James Walter McFarlane, Graham Orton (1966). “The Oxford Ibsen: The lady from the sea. Hedda Gabler. The master builder”

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• Unless somebody's actually creating something and doing something spontaneous I wouldn't find it at all interesting, to watch or to create, so, I'm trying to make my solo shows something different altogether.

  Thighpaulsandra

  Creating, Interesting, Trying

  Source: thequietus.com

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• There is no sex without a cue. People who date have their cues at home, before they meet. You think about where to go, what to eat, what to do and say. Sometimes the cue is short - - just before we reach the bar - - but sex is never just spontaneous. Spontaneity is a myth.

  Esther Perel

  Sex, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• People know that both my parents were shrinks so I was sort of raised in an atmosphere where there was that interest in the human mechanism and the human psyche and what makes people tick. And yes, I think I'm particularly creative and adventurous and improvisational and spontaneous in my inner impulses and patterns and deeply curious and appetized in the unfathomably mysterious and delicious phenomena that is the human being and who we really are.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Thinking, People, Creative

  "HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: Jeff Goldblum Talks Law & Order: Criminal Intent’s New Detective and More!". Interview, eclipsemagazine.com. April 29, 2009.

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• The skill of a good actor is to make it always seem like you're in that fantastically spontaneous moment. Very often, a stand-up comedian has a different instinct, which is to reinvent. Once you've laid down some material, and made them laugh, you move on and find some new material.

  Colin Firth

  Moving, Skills, Laughing

  "St Trinian's - Colin Firth interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I like to do the pictures before people get too self-conscious. I like to be spontaneous and get a shot before the subject thinks too much about it.

  Keira Knightley

  Thinking, Self, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• O sweet spontaneous earth how often has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty thou answereth them only with spring.

  e. e. cummings

  Sweet, Spring, Naughty

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