Spontaneity Quotes · Page 7

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.

— Jane Austen

Wumbo! You know, I wumbo, you wumbo, he/she/we wumbo. Wumboed, wumboing, wumbology. The study of WUMBO! It's first grade, Spongebob.

— Patrick Star

I love the spontaneity of plays and of being onstage, because that's an energy that you can't really fabricate in movies.

— Chloe Grace Moretz

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

— John C. Maxwell

All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wasn't being critical of myself in the way I can normally be, and I was letting myself follow through with stuff.…

— Luke Temple

Sometimes love happens by accident, when you least expect it. You can't prepare for it, you can't be ready. It just happens.

— Anonymous

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

— Gillian Anderson

“But the trouble with living in the moment is that the moment passes. Impulse and spontaneity take no account of the longer…

— David Nicholls

Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's…

— Richard Rosen

Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in…

— Anonymous

“Speaking of which, about assuming you had a condom—I just meant that you, with your experience, would be prepared for responsible sex,…

— Roberta Pearce

A part of me is always envious of people who live in the present and are sustained by a sense of spontaneity.…

— Peter Shaffer

The erotic state – again, a mixture of concentration and spontaneity – is a hypnoidal state, probably the most powerful kind that…

— Peter Redgrove

“Spontaneity is that exact intersection of the conscious and the subconscious, when what is intuitive and invisible leaps into our awareness, ready…

— Naomi Kinsman

And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity,…

— Eckhart Tolle

One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito,…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

[As a kid] I felt it was really weird that music schools behaved like a conveyor belt to make performers for those…

— Bjork

We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

“Where was the excitement in dependability? Where was the spontaneity in a predictable world? He could offer her an eternity of challenges…

— A.G. Howard

Faith is from within; it is the outbreaking of human spontaneity; it is force of soul, grandeur of sentiment, magnanimity, generosity, courage.…

— William Batchelder Greene

So, you don't have laughs as a reference point any more, it becomes a bit of a science after that. And the…

— Colin Firth

Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference,…

— Viola Spolin

Writers and filmakers, that is, people who describe the world, suffer from an occupational disease. They never experience moments in life quite…

— Michael Haneke

Sight gags had to be planned; they required timing and mechanics. Occasionally, spontaneity would arise in the shooting of the scenes.

— Stan Laurel

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

— Abigail Biddinger

Usually it's a pretty calculated, sustained, and slow process by which you develop something. The effect can be one of spontaneity, but…

— Richard Estes

I am all in favour of spontaneity, providing it is carefully planned and ruthlessly controlled.

— John Gielgud

I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises.

— Erma Bombeck

There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life…

— Larry David

That one thing you do give up when you get married is that magic moment of meeting someone, and the sparks and…

— Katie Aselton

Hell is our creation, and we create hell by trying to do the impossible. Heaven is our nature, it is our spontaneity.…

— Rajneesh

“Spontaneity is the touch-stone: Observe a child's spontaneity and you see spirit in action.”

— Garry Fitchett

I'm a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in the world.

— John Cassavetes

There is something else to be said about this immediate, spontaneous way of working, and that is this: in such moments, one…

— Henry Miller

The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.

— Ugo Betti

Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.

— Gail Sheehy

Once a decision is made to be tasteful and risk-free, all spark, soul, variety, sleaze, spontaneity and fun go right out the…

— Cintra Wilson

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

— Simon Hoggart