Quotes with spontaneous

  • 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 in whatever way they like.
  • One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.
  • My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

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  • Henry Miller All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • William S. Burroughs America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Carlos Ghosn Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Creative life is characterized by spontaneous mutability: it brings forth unknown issues, impossible to preconceive.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Bob Brown Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.
    Bob Brown
    Australian politician, medical doctor and environmentalist (1944 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alejo Carpentier I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.
    Alejo Carpentier
    Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist (1904 - 1980)
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  • Maria Montessori If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
    Maria Montessori
    Italian educationalist (1870 - 1952)
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  • Swami Ramdas Just as a flower gives out its fragrance to whomsoever approaches our uses it, so love from within us radiates towards everybody and manifests as spontaneous service.
    Swami Ramdas
    Indian saint, philosopher, philanthropist and pilgrim (1884 - 1963)
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  • Lao-Tzu 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 in whatever way they like.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Benny Green Like Russell, I enjoy the fact that when I'm playing solo, if I want to do something completely spontaneous, I don't have to worry about how I'm going to cue the other musicians, or if it's something that's rehearsed.
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • Mark Caine Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.
    Mark Caine
    American writer
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Bebe Neuwirth One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.
    Bebe Neuwirth
    American actress, singer and dancer (1958 - )
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  • Bruce Lee One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way.
    Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • William Wordsworth Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • George Orwell Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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