Spontaneity Quotes · Page 8

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

— Vijay Prashad

I'm not an amazingly trained soul singer, so with me it's about feeling and energy and spontaneity - that's a really big…

— Neneh Cherry

We never do two shows the same way. The audience has a lot to do with that spontaneity, and it's our job…

— Dennis Edwards

Believe, then, that you are a being unlimited by nature, born into flesh to materialize as best you can the great joy…

— Jane Roberts

One of the most beneficial and valuable gifts we can give to ourselves in this life: is allowing ourselves to be surprised!

— Anonymous

Having the presence of mind to react to any situation onstage is what makes the best performers keep their spontaneity intact.

— Marni Nixon

“Spontaneity is a good thing. The best things in life happen when you just let events … unfold. When you try to control things…

— Anne Greenwood Brown

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure; it's what you bring to it.…

— Jimmy Page

“Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing…

— Bill Watterson

I think what a lot of people forget is that a lot of the music in the '60s and the '70s was…

— Justin Adams

Comedy, when it works, is light on its feet and has the illusion of complete spontaneity: as if there is no film,…

— David Dobkin

What happens in the studio is technically the same thing that happens on the stage. In the past I had to make…

— Squarepusher

Once you start rewriting, you're not able to stop. With each draft the fundamental banality and worthlessness of the material becomes more…

— Barry N. Malzberg

The most consistent characteristic of awakened teachers and people I have met is a childlike nature. They laugh, cry, twinkle, and joke,…

— Catherine Ingram

A lot of my albums that I've done, a lot of the songs have been the first take. It's before you mess…

— Anonymous

We need merely understand that the evolutionary process is neither random nor determined but creative. It follows the general pattern of all…

— Thomas Berry

For me, it's really day to day. I don't really plan ahead and I like to be excited about what I'm wearing.…

— Victoria Legrand

Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in…

— Malcolm Gladwell

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike…

— Margaret Mead

Wildness we might consider as the root of the authentic spontaneities of any being. It is that wellspring of creativity whence comes…

— Thomas Berry

We can only touch spontaneity when we let go of dogma, old beliefs, old certitude's, because these things are what prevents the…

— Daniel Odier

I was asked by the National Institute of Health to be their scientific discussant on the effects of these drug [Ritalin] at…

— Peter Breggin

Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and…

— Aaron Copland

I like the spontaneity; I like to just get people together and hit 'record' so hopefully it has got a liveliness about…

— Stevie Jackson

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

— Chandrakanth Natekar

Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned.

— Margaret Ayer Barnes

Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dialogue should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk.

— Elizabeth Bowen

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

— Erma Bombeck

I feel preparation is a vital part of music as without it, the spontaneity goes haywire.

— Kumar Sanu

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

— Bill Condon

If the mind is calm, your spontaneity and honest thoughts appear. You become more spontaneous.

— Chade-Meng Tan

“Spontaneity and immediacy characterize hygge, as does a willingness to accept our differences and enjoy an atmosphere of tolerance and peace.”

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Preparation for any role is a must, so that when the shot is happening, it's about reacting and living that moment. One…

— Arjun Kapoor

Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field.

— Kate Winslet

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

— Henry James Sumner Maine

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and…

— William S. Burroughs

Say yes to life be' weird and spontaneous say yes to opportunities and say no to those who think you're crazy.

— Jeremy Limn