I could use a little monotony in my life. Spontaneity is exhausting. — A. Meredith Walters Copy Share Image
There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Every corner you turn or street you walk down has a new experience waiting for you. You just have to see the… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Structure ignites spontaneity. Limits yield intensity. When we play... by our self-chosen rules, we find that containment of strength amplifies strength. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The rich fruit of spontaneity grows in the garden that is well tended by the discipline of schedule. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for. — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad,… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
America can be a very hysterical country intellectually and very puritanical, too. You probably have fun in private, but to the rest… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
In the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes… — Bob Blumer Copy Share Image
We’ve educated children to think that spontaneity is inappropriate. Children are willing to expose themselves to experiences. We aren’t. Grownups always say… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
People use the Method as a shield; it shields them from being vulnerable. I hear all these young actors who are like,… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
“Maybe she'd ended up going to Ireland because whilst visiting her father she'd bumped into an old love from her youth, perhaps… — Eva Heller Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid that too much labour over the composition is going to kill the spontaneity. Those who absorb and digest… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Chuang Tzu and Heidegger both emphasise the virtue of 'spontaneity' - a sort of mindful responsiveness to things as they are. It's… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
“Wheels have been set in motion, and they have their own pace, to which we are...condemned. Each move is dictated by the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If one partner gives himself completely, he breaks down the barriers of the other, however strong they may be. Because the act… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There is onslaught is the accelerating momentum of technologies and instrumental mentalities that are exterminating spontaneity, undermining love and common decency. It's… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
“But spontaneity is not by any means a blind, disorderly urge, a mere power of caprice. A philosophy restricted to the alternatives… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
What's so great is that we're making money for AIDS in Africa. There's a lot of love and spontaneity, we're doing something… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
Humanity cannot afford to acknowledge all of the blood that it spills and the destruction it inflicts on the world in its… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“Spontaneity in the therapeutic work arises when the therapist can allow creative and authentic impulses to arise from moment to moment from… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
Emotional self-control is NOT the same as overcontrol, the stifling of all feeling and spontaneity…when such emotional suppression is chronic, it can… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity. — Kenny Rogers Copy Share Image
“On Tolkien: "His fussiness threatened to overwhelm his creativity.” — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image