“ Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood. ”
- Billy Joel- Copy
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“ You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel. ”
- Maurice Ravel- Copy
- 215
“ Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything. ”
- Win Borden- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference, memory choked with old facts and information and undigested theories and techniques of other people's findings… ”
- Viola Spolin- Copy
- 3.4K
“ 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. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 767
“ About the process of growing up.. What follows is tragic. We stop risking for fear of making mistakes, fear of not fitting in, fear of being embarrassed or humiliated by saying the 'wrong' thing. Our instinctive joy and boundless enthusiasm are replaced by playing it safe and looking good… ”
- Robert White- Copy
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“ Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment, of trusting your instincts, of taking yourself by surprise and snatching from the clutches of your well-organized routine a bit of unscheduled pleasure. ”
- Richard Iannelli- Copy
- 2.5K
“ 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. ”
- Lucy Maud Montgomery- Copy
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“ Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Don't wait for answers... Just take your chances!Don't ask me why. ”
- Billy Joel- Copy
- 3.9K
“ When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity… I can be sure that I am right. ”
- Federico Fellini- Copy
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“ I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity. ”
- Federico Fellini- Copy
- 321
“ Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values. ”
- Helen Merrell Lynd- Copy
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“ Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
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“ Winning children are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want. ”
- Thornton Wilder- Copy
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“ Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death. ”
- Rollo May- Copy
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“ Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life. ”
- Amos Bronson Alcott- Copy
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“ It looks absurd and contradictory, because for you to be spontaneous many methods are needed to purify you, to make you innocent so that you can be spontaneous. Otherwise you cannot be spontaneous in anything. ”
- Osho- Copy
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“ 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… ”
- Tom Stoppard- Copy
- 715
“ Spontaneity is not mere impulse... undeliberated behavior and feeling.... Spontaneity is behavior, feeling and thought that is free of external constraint, of imposed restriction... not an uncontrolled effluvium of passion and action.... Insofar as the individual removes the fetters of domination that have stifled her or his self-activity, she or he is acting, feeling and thinking spontaneously. ”
- Murray Bookchin- Copy
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“ The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion; the mind that grows could not predict the time, the means, the mode of that spontaneity; God enters by a private door into every individual. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 2K
“ Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem. ”
- Rollo May- Copy
- 48
“ Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment, of trusting your instincts, of taking yourself by surprise and snatching from the clutches of your well-organized routine, a bit of unscheduled plea. ”
- Germaine Greer- Copy
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