Spontaneously Quotes
204 Spontaneously quotes by 161 unique authors
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Rather than set aside daily time for prayer, I pray constantly and spontaneously about everything I encounter on a daily basis. When someone shares something…
— Thomas Kinkade
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Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of behavior, as well as patterns of training people for that…
— Julian Simon
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Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth. And when a person does not…
— Julian Simon
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There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter…
— William Osler
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The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow…
— Adrian Bejan
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The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in which the man…
— Paul Valery
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What I prized most was freedom, freedom to do my work, to give myself spontaneously and not out of duty or by command. I could…
— Emma Goldman
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Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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I can say with a solid degree of authority that I am a selfish person. I spontaneously forget the names of more people than not,…
— Sloane Crosley
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Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.
— Stephen Hawking
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Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions.
— Jonathan Kozol
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We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
— Maria Montessori
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Anytime I have an idea, I'll make sure that I put it down so that when we do sit down to write an album, I…
— Neil Peart
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The stirrings of morality emerge early in childhood. Toddlers spontaneously offer toys and help to others and try to comfort people they see in distress.
— Steven Pinker
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Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
— Bertrand Russell
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When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy…
— Jerry Saltz
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And…
— J. Michael Straczynski
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Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are…
— George Will
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Parents should be vigilant and spiritually attentive to spontaneously occurring opportunities to bear testimony to their children. Such occasions need not be programmed, scheduled, or…
— David A. Bednar
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It is hard to get animals which normally pay little attention to each other to do things together. One can teach dolphins to jump simultaneously…
— Frans de Waal
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I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected;…
— Charlotte Bronte
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The amazing thing is that chaotic systems don't always stay chaotic," Ben said, leaning on the gate. "Sometimes they spontaneously reorganize themselves into an orderly…
— Connie Willis
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Ascend beyond the sickly atmosphere to a higher plane, and purify yourself by drinking as if it were ambrosia the fire that fills and fuels…
— Charles Baudelaire
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it is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I…
— Oswald Chambers
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