quotes 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 -
They don't call me spontaneous and irreverant for nothing.
-- Kathie Lee Gifford -
In a normal education everything is designed to suppress spontaneity, but I wanted to develop it.
-- Keith JohnstoneSource : Keith Johnstone (1981). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.15, Routledge
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There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.
-- Kenny Rogers -
Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times.
-- Leonardo DiCaprio -
I'm a big believer in spontaneity.
-- Les ClaypoolSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned.
-- Margaret Ayer Barnes -
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There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow, accretive kind of process-labor intensive.
-- Martin Puryear -
The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience .
-- Matthew Arnold -
We’ve educated children to think that spontaneity is inappropriate. Children are willing to expose themselves to experiences. We aren’t. Grownups always say they protect their children, but they’re really protecting themselves. Besides, you can’t protect children. They know everything.
-- Maurice Sendak -
The way that I live my life is on spontaneity.
-- Melanie Brown -
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Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you.
-- Mohamed ElBaradei -
You ask, 'How to live my life?' But with the question you are suffocating life itself, for life is spontaneity.
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Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.
-- Morena BaccarinSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I like spontaneity and intelligence in a girl. Nothing is more attractive to me than someone who has a good sense of who she is and can hold her own in a conversation.
-- Nathan Adrian -
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Usually it's a pretty calculated, sustained, and slow process by which you develop something. The effect can be one of spontaneity, but that's part of the artistry.
-- Richard Estes -
Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous.
-- Ritchie Blackmore -
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The investigations also proved that there were many cases of spontaneous deviation, i.e. cases where there had been no stimulation of the semi-circular canal apparatus.
-- Robert Barany -
For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
-- Robert Genn -
A small venue is so much more intimate and loose. You can actually be more spontaneous, I feel.
-- Suzy Bogguss -
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The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.
-- Ugo BettiSource : Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
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Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves.
-- Viola Spolin -
Reintegration with Nature, which we are, is the recovery of spontaneity.
-- Wei Wu Wei -
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I write and rewrite and memorize, and then inject my performance with improvising and spontaneity, because if something feels too rehearsed, it's not going to be fun.
-- Andy DalySource : "'A Real Person Who Has Real Thoughts and Feelings'". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. February 29, 2016.
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Preparation for any role is a must, so that when the shot is happening, it's about reacting and living that moment. One must be so prepared that spontaneity comes!
-- Arjun KapoorSource : Source: www.indiawest.com
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Chuang Tzu and Heidegger both emphasise the virtue of 'spontaneity' - a sort of mindful responsiveness to things as they are. It's this notion, I suspect, that is the best bet for helping to make some sense of talk about harmony or unity with nature.
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With kids, they force you to get out of bed. They force you to smile. They remind you of spontaneity.
-- Fred D'AguiarSource : Source: therumpus.net
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On one hand you want to see your subject well. On the other hand, you want to be caught off guard to retain the spontaneity. If you know your subject too well you stop seeing it.
-- Harold Feinstein -
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 -
Having the presence of mind to react to any situation onstage is what makes the best performers keep their spontaneity intact.
-- Marni Nixon -
Any person by nature has inherent capabilities. You have to trust your instincts and act with spontaneity.
-- Abdel Fattah el-SisiSource : Source: www.spiegel.de
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I could use a little monotony in my life. Spontaneity is exhausting.
-- A. Meredith WaltersSource : A. Meredith Walters (2014). “Find You in the Dark”, p.53, Simon and Schuster
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It's not just that toil allows the appearance of spontaneity. It allows the actuality of spontaneity.
-- Paul Kane