Best 114 quotes in «spontaneity quotes» category

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

You can't be spontaneous within reason.

You don't need a reason to sing.

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

I am neither spontaneous nor ready for anything.

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

Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous.

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

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.

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.

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

I like Vegas for its spontaneity.

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

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

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 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.

I'm very spontaneous.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

My choices in films are spontaneous.

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

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.

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

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

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

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

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

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.

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'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?

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

The Tao's principle is spontaneity.

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

They don't call me spontaneous and irreverant for nothing.

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

When you do an arena show, and the lights have to sync up to the sound, and the sound has to sync up to the music, and all of that - things are really mapped out, and you lose some of that spontaneity.

Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.

True popular ballads are the spontaneous products of nature.

A goal ensures progress. But one gets much further without a goal.

Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in hours of highly repetitive and structured practice--perfecting their shooting, dribbling, and passing and running plays over and over again--and agrees to play a carefully defined role on the court. . . . spontaneity isn't random.

When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated.