Spontaneity Quotes

227 Spontaneity quotes by 197 unique authors

The best style is the style you don't notice. — W. Somerset Maugham
Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety. — Bertrand Russell
Spontaneity is the province of youth — Jacqueline Carey
Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! — Jane Austen
The modern spirit is a hesitant one. Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms, and the age of heroes has been superseded by a cult… — Roger Lowenstein
Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual. — Ernest Hemingway
Travel releases spontaneity. You become a godlike creature full or choice, free to visit the stately pleasure domes, make love in the morning, sketch a… — Frances Mayes
There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of… — Galt Niederhoffer
...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and… — Edith Wharton
Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own… — Susan Sontag
Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that… — N. T. Wright
If one partner gives himself completely, he breaks down the barriers of the other, however strong they may be. Because the act of giving means:… — Paulo Coelho
Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art — Oscar Wilde
I guess sometimes the greatest memories are made in the most unlikely of places, further proof that spontaneity is more rewarding than a meticulously planned… — J.A. Redmerski
We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society. — Judith Martin
The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into his permanence. — Unknown Author
The world of life, of spontaneity, the world of dawn and sunset and starlight, the world of soil and sunshine, of meadow and woodland, of… — Thomas Berry
We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward… — Laozi
For me, the main thing is spontaneity & taking chances. — Dave Kikoski
There is no heaven and there is no hell. They are not geographical, they are part of your psychology. They are psychological. To live the… — Rajneesh
Real laughter is spontaneous. Like water from the spring it bubbles forth a creation of mingled action and spontaneity - two magic potions in themselves… — Douglas Fairbanks
If the mind is calm, your spontaneity and honest thoughts appear. You become more spontaneous. — Chade-Meng Tan
That one thing you do give up when you get married is that magic moment of meeting someone, and the sparks and the spontaneity. — Katie Aselton
Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you. — Mohamed ElBaradei

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