Best 114 quotes in «spontaneity quotes» category

Run to the beach, dive in the water. Do it now, without a second thought.

Say yes and you'll figure it out afterwards.

Some of the most thrilling things in life are done on impulse.

Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I wonder which one YOU are. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles!

Science and Truth are simple phenomenon of nature, but it is the known that is preventing us from mastering the unknown.

Show me a universal life manual and I will show you a ready-made scam. Life is spontaneous. Live and learn.

Speaking of which, about assuming you had a condom—I just meant that you, with your experience, would be prepared for responsible sex, even if it were on the fly. An intelligent man is prepared for spontaneity.

Spontaneity at all levels is guided by the goal of getting it right; being clearly “forced” to come to some conclusion is not its negation, but its highest fulfillment.

Sometimes things don’t have to have a point. There’s a special kind of beauty and freedom in the just because.

Tears have always been easier to shed than explain.

Spontaneity is great when the opportunity is there, but what I'm really saying is you need to trust yourself. Instead of checking and rechecking your camera and the lighting and everything else, just set it up once and trust that you've done it right. Then focus more on capturing the emotion of the photo and less on how technically perfect its composition will be.

Spontaneous insanity is the real bliss! It's sad that we are honored for playing sane, serious, safe, miserable and controlling in this poor world.

The creative person has to dissolve all should and should nots. He needs freedom and space, vast space; he needs the whole sky and all the stars. Only then can his innermost spontaneity start growing.

Something just flashes into your mind, so exciting, and you must out with it. If you stop to think it over, you spoil it all.

The author compares rationalism and much of organized religion do a dictator who paves over natural springs in order to dispense water in a more organized fashion. The pushback of the world hungry for wonder may be compared to the break out of those springs from their constraints. Not everything they produce is healthy, but the overreaction of eliminating them is worse.

The charm of your society, my Sparrow, lies in not knowing what you will say next – though one rapidly learns to expect the worst!

The examined life: nothing is more futile or counterproductive. The active, joyous, spontaneous life: that is what one should aim for.

The wild ivy grows wherever it pleases.

The problem with being an adult most of your life is not having been a child long enough. (08/26/2019)

We are spontaneous when we are at our genuine best.

Weather is always unrehearsed.

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.

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.

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.

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

to have to combat one’s instincts—that is the formula for decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness and instinct are one.

Why the hell not?

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.

The first bout of warm spring rain caused normally respectable women to pull off their stockings and run through muddy puddles alongside their children.

You can't be spontaneous within reason.

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

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.

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

I am neither spontaneous nor ready for anything.

Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous.

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

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

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

I like Vegas for its spontaneity.

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 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 studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.

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

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