SPONTANEITY QUOTES II

quotations about spontaneity

Spontaneity is not mere impulse ... undeliberated behavior and feeling.... Spontaneity is behavior, feeling and thought that is free of external constraint, of imposed restriction ... not an uncontrolled effluvium of passion and action.... Insofar as the individual removes the fetters of domination that have stifled her or his self-activity, she or he is acting, feeling and thinking spontaneously.

MURRAY BOOKCHIN

Liberation


Scheduling your life is almost always a good idea, while spontaneity is overrated, and anyone who takes pride in being "a really spontaneous person" is someone to avoid. (Though that won't be an issue: they'll never stick to any social plans you make.)

OLIVER BURKEMAN

"Want to be more creative? Schedule a break", The Guardian, June 23, 2017


Find me a row boat, let it flow, on a river pointed your way, I'm thinking let's be spontaneous.

BRETT ELDREDGE

"Gotta Get There"


Spontaneity is the province of youth.

JACQUELINE CAREY

Kushiel's Chosen

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Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves.

VIOLA SPOLIN

Improvisation for the Theater


Ben's spontaneity is unnerving until you put your finger on why: There's no cell phone in the pocket of his medium-wash, relaxed-cut jeans.

JULIA FELSENTHAL

"Got '90s Nostalgia? Landline Is the Film for You", Vogue, July 18, 2017


It looks absurd and contradictory, because for you to be spontaneous many methods are needed to purify you, to make you innocent so that you can be spontaneous. Otherwise you cannot be spontaneous in anything.

OSHO

The Book of Secrets

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Spontaneity is one of the most important of human assets or skills. Without spontaneity we cannot love, communicate, make decisions, or be creative. Without spontaneity we cannot cope. We fail to recognize problems, to see alternatives, to make choices or to act on them. At times an inability to respond spontaneously can endanger survival. This is true on both the personal and societal level.

MARY W. NICHOLAS

Change in the Context of Group Therapy


Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL

Amiel's Journal

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The quest for spontaneity is the process of allowing the uniquely personal features -- the cipher, the "I" -- to emerge in the personality, and this is a challenge that confronts all of us.

GEMMA CORRADI FIUMARA

Spontaneity: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry


What does it matter whether we have free will or not as long as it feels as though we do? It may well be preordained when I sneeze but it will feel spontaneous, so, as far as I am concerned, spontaneous it will be.

TREVOR BAXTER

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime


Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art.

ROLLO MAY

The Courage to Create

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Days connect like boxcars in a train
Fill them up with precious cargo
Squeeze in all that you can find
Spontaneous elation
And the long-enduring kind

RUSH

"Time and Motion"


At present I speak the new beginning when every other trend fell short
So who'll be the shareholder of my kinda thoughts besides the studious
Cuz the gludious max-a-must lack ability to scoop all capabilities of
Spontaneity within me depicted kicked it true vibes pops jazz but
Collaborated with the cool known flows but unfamiliar grooves soothe
Individual moods like soul food for thought ...

BAHAMADIA

"Spontaneity"


All the aches, pains and the joys
Of growing up beside you
Dancing a spontaneous
A dance with you
Your spirit lives
As you have spread the seed
Of love

STEREOLAB

"Feel and Triple"


Spontaneity, left to itself, can begin by excusing bad behavior and end by congratulating vice.

N. T. WRIGHT

After You Believe


Spontaneous people are capable of as much love as well-organized people -- they're just messier.

JOHN ORTBERG

The Me I Want to Be

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This is what Spontaneity is all about: creative response.

RUTH MCKEE

"Spontaneity Magazine: Art matters", Irish Times, February 2, 2017


If you follow a recipe for life, spontaneity will be cooked.

KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN

Caribbean College of Consciousness


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 life.

J. A. REDMERSKI

The Edge of Always