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
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"
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
Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves.
VIOLA SPOLIN
Improvisation for the Theater
Spontaneity is the province of youth.
JACQUELINE CAREY
Kushiel's Chosen
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
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
Amiel's Journal
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
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
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
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
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
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"
This is what Spontaneity is all about: creative response.
RUTH MCKEE
"Spontaneity Magazine: Art matters", Irish Times, February 2, 2017
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"
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
Spontaneous people are capable of as much love as well-organized people -- they're just messier.
JOHN ORTBERG
The Me I Want to Be
Spontaneity, left to itself, can begin by excusing bad behavior and end by congratulating vice.
N. T. WRIGHT
After You Believe
All that was alive and spontaneous
Fading under the crests of imbalance
Gnaw your teeth into fangs, only to have them lash out at yourself
For what they forever have done to you
NEUROSIS
"Raze the Stray"