Spontaneity Quotes

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

It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.

Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.

They don't call me spontaneous and irreverant for nothing.

Real greatness comes from that sort of spontaneity of the moment that takes it into another level. That can never be planned; it happens or it doesn't. And you can't force it.

The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into his permanence.

The rich fruit of spontaneity grows in the garden that is well tended by the discipline of schedule.

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

Spontaneity comes after skill, not before.

We've educated children to think spontaneity is inappropriate.

I write and rewrite and memorize, and then inject my performance with improvising and spontaneity, because if something feels too rehearsed, it's not going to be fun.

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

I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.

Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.

America exhausts the springs of one's soul - I suppose that's what it exists for. It lives to see all real spontaneity expire. But anyhow it doesn't grind on an old nerve as Europe seems to.

For me, the main thing is spontaneity & taking chances.

If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity.

With kids, they force you to get out of bed. They force you to smile. They remind you of spontaneity.

Individual experiences being limited and individual spontaneity feeble, we are strengthened and enriched by assimilating the experience of others.

There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity.

One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.

Something that I tell myself every morning when I wake up is like: "Think it over, take the time to think it over." I don't like spontaneity, there you go. I'm wary of it.

The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.

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

I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.

The Tao's principle is spontaneity.

I wasn't being critical of myself in the way I can normally be, and I was letting myself follow through with stuff. It was like a prolonged spontaneity.

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

Comedy, sometimes if you think about it too much then it becomes a bit boring. If you start thinking about striking the right balance sometimes it takes the spontaneity out of it.

The way that I live my life is on spontaneity.

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.

I'm very spontaneous.

It's not just that toil allows the appearance of spontaneity. It allows the actuality of spontaneity.

The body has to be looked after: one has to be very caring about the body and very loving to the body. And then, its very spontaneity purifies it, makes it holy.

The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous.

Catch instants. Spontaneity, freshness.

Play, creativity, art, spontaneity, all these experiences are their own rewards and are blocked when we perform for reward or punishment, profit or loss.

A small venue is so much more intimate and loose. You can actually be more spontaneous, I feel.

I think you should ride the line between fatigue and chaos. The chaos keeps the energy level and spontaneity maximized, while fatigue is just over the edge, and you should try to avoid it.

Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

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

Some of the most thrilling things in life are done on impulse.

to have to combat one’s instincts—that is the formula for decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness and instinct are one.

You can't be spontaneous within reason.

Our Scripture awakened that most glorious of things, the spontaneous love our Lord so desires His children to bear Him, for it is what He bears them.

I said, but I have to go, there are so many places calling my name.

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

I may be going nowhere, but what a ride.