Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. — Arnold H. Glasow Copy Share Image
A spontaneous interview feels differently than anything else you see on television. — David Steinberg Copy Share Image
Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I'm a very spontaneous person. When I see something that might be fun or different, I will try it. — Shawn Mendes Copy Share Image
Like a lot of what happens in novels, inspiration is a sort of spontaneous combustion--the oily rags of the head and heart. — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt. — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
What reason would grope for in vain, spontaneous impulse ofttimes achieves at a stroke, with light and pleasureful guidance. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
So far, she’d been her usual lame self: solitary and routine-loving, carefully avoiding any path that might lead to spontaneous human interaction.… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands - though there is no guarantee… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
Both depression and anxiety disorders, for example, are repeatedly described in the media as 'chemical imbalances in the brain,' as if spontaneous… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch is handed down from race… — Kelly Miller Copy Share Image
Meditation simplifies our outer life and energizes our inner life. Meditation gives us a natural and spontaneous life, a life that becomes… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
service is the joy-giving factor in daily life. It is as spontaneous as light, as subtle as electricity, as exhilarating as sunshine.… — Lilian Whiting Copy Share Image
A spontaneous act of generosity, performed with unselfish grace is an example of moral beauty, as are certain acts of courage; genuine… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
'Efficient' scheduling and control of time are often counterproductive. The efficiency focus creates expectations that clash with the opportunities to develop rich… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
It's good that there is more support of diversity but there is still a lot of resistance. I never saw it as… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
An educator should think of a child as a gardener thinks of a plant, as something to be made to grow by… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Many musicians are fabulously skilled at playing the black dots on the printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
I'm often asked, "What is your favorite moment during the 30 years you hosted [The Tonight Show]?" I really don't have just… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
“Young love-making--that gossamer web! Even the points it clings to--the things whence its subtle interlacing are swung--are scarcely perceptible; momentary touches of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To live moment to moment is the life of meditation. Then life becomes spontaneous without any effort; then nobody can make you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of the most spontaneous satisfactions.… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection. — John Abercrombie Copy Share Image