Best 114 quotes in «spontaneity quotes» category

We are spontaneous when we are at our genuine best.

Weather is always unrehearsed.

Wheels have been set in motion, and they have their own pace, to which we are...condemned. Each move is dictated by the previous one - that is the meaning of order. If we start being arbitrary it'll just be a shambles: at least, let us hope so. Because if we happened, just happened to discover, or even suspect, that our spontaneity was part of their order, we'd know that we were lost. A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty - and, by which definition, a philosopher - dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; his two-fold security.

We seek to uncover behind the events changes in the collective consciousness. We reject wholesale references to the “spontaneity” of the movement, references which in most cases explain nothing and teach nobody. Revolutions take place according to certain laws. This does not mean that the masses in action are aware of the laws of revolution, but it does mean that the changes in mass consciousness are not accidental, but are subject to an objective necessity which is capable of theoretic explanation, and thus makes both prophecy and leadership possible.

When you're playing at something and having fun, you don't stop to ask yourself why.

Why the hell not?

You can't be spontaneous within reason.

You can devise all the plans in the world, but if you don’t welcome spontaneity; you will just disappoint yourself.

You don't need a reason to sing.

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

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.

We didn’t see anyone that day. We had no expectations. Everything was spontaneous. There wasn’t a single moment of stress. We laughed like crazy all afternoon – though I couldn’t tell you what about. And there was definitely something in the air – call it magic if you like – because that was the happiest Christmas any of us could remember, which makes me think that perhaps, like luck, magic is something we can make for ourselves. It isn’t something you can buy. It doesn’t come as standard. And you don’t need to plan, or to overspend, or to wrack your brains trying to come up with some extraordinary way to celebrate. Because sometimes it’s the little things that bring us the greatest pleasure.

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

I consider this a kind of neoliberalism of the Left, this rise and promotion of spontaneity above preparation.

Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous.

For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.

I am neither spontaneous nor ready for anything.

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

I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.

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.

If you confine it, you're confining a whole thing. If you make it spontaneous, so that anything can happen, like we don't want to confine or restrict anything. What we can do, whatever we can let happen, you just let it happen.

I like Vegas for its spontaneity.

I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy's is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It's a precision science, in a way. And when you're filming, the thing comedy depends on becomes a much more difficult commodity. The thing you depend on is spontaneity.

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.

I'm very spontaneous.

I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.

I prefer a much looser style. Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity - killer. I don't get making sure you get every word right in some stupid speech just because a writer sat there and did it.

It's not just that toil allows the appearance of spontaneity. It allows the actuality of spontaneity.

It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge.

Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.

I understand politically that uprisings take place as a combination of spontaneity and preparation, not that preparation is more important than spontaneity.

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.

It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.

My choices in films are spontaneous.

[on her role as Special Agent Dana Scully on The X-Files (1993)] I am more spontaneous than my character.

Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.

Never say never. The things that you dont plan are the best. Im a very spontaneous person.

Persuasive communication involves enthusiasm, animation, audience participation, authenticity and spontaneity.

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

The body has to be looked after: one has to be very caring about the body and very loving to the body. And then, its very spontaneity purifies it, makes it holy.

The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.

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.

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.

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.

The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

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

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

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

There's so much spontaneity involved, what do you practice? How do you practice teamwork? How do you practice sharing? How do you practice daring? How do you practice being nonjudgmental?

Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.