Quotes and Sayings About Spontaneity
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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
-- Alan Dean FosterSource : Alan Dean Foster (1982). “Nor crystal tears”, Del Rey
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I tend to be really pragmatic, but ultimately tend to be attracted to people who pull me into more spontaneity. I've really learned that, through surrender, the best experiences of my life have happened.
-- Amy Adams -
The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into his permanence.
-- Barry Finnerty -
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It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.
-- Bill Condon -
I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.
-- Brooke Burke -
In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.
-- Bruce Lee -
Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.
-- Chuck Barris -
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I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.
-- Dane Cook -
As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.
-- David Hockney -
I am neither spontaneous nor ready for anything.
-- David Rakoff -
Without spontaneity in any sport, you cannot succeed.
-- Eric Cantona -
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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 -
True popular ballads are the spontaneous products of nature.
-- Francis James Child -
But I really like hosting, I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I'm funny behind the desk when interviewing someone.
-- Garry Shandling -
The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
-- Germaine GreerSource : Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee
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I am more spontaneous than my character.
-- Gillian Anderson -
Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel -
Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
-- Henri Poincare -
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Spontaneity is not enough - or, to be more exact, spontaneity is not possible until there is an unconscious coordination of form, space and vision.
-- Herbert Read -
Spontaneity is the province of youth
-- Jacqueline CareySource : Jacqueline Carey (2016). “Kushiel’s Legacy: (Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen, Kushiel's Avatar)”, p.1091, Macmillan
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The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.
-- Jan HammerSource : Interview with Art Connor, www.tbolin.com. February 7, 2001.
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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 WallSource : Jeff Wall, Museum Moderner Kunst (Austria) (2003). “Jeff Wall: photographs”, Walther Konig
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You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure; it's what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a speciï¬c moment is what drives it.
-- Jimmy PageSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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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. CarlsonSource : John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.131, Courier Corporation
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I am all in favour of spontaneity, providing it is carefully planned and ruthlessly controlled.
-- John Gielgud -
Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
-- John McLaughlin -
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It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge.
-- John Zorn -
Dismiss thoughts of 'good, bad, right, wrong, success, failure' - be spontaneous.
-- Joshua L. Goldberg