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  • The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

    "Male and Female". Margaret Mead, Ladies' Home Journal, Volume 66 (p. 36), September 1949.
  • When you do an arena show, and the lights have to sync up to the sound, and the sound has to sync up to the music, and all of that - things are really mapped out, and you lose some of that spontaneity.

    Light   Sound   Arena  
    "Rascal Flatts Talk Las Vegas Residency & Tour With Kelsea Ballerini". Interview With Chuck Dauphin, www.billboard.com. February 2, 2016.
  • Usually it's a pretty calculated, sustained, and slow process by which you develop something. The effect can be one of spontaneity, but that's part of the artistry.

  • You ask, 'How to live my life?' But with the question you are suffocating life itself, for life is spontaneity.

  • I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've got lots of material to work with as an actor.

    Good Life   Mean   Actors  
  • Once a decision is made to be tasteful and risk-free, all spark, soul, variety, sleaze, spontaneity and fun go right out the window

    Fun   Decision   Soul  
  • America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.

    Life   Real   Men  
    D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.10167, Delphi Classics
  • Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.

  • America can be a very hysterical country intellectually and very puritanical, too. You probably have fun in private, but to the rest of the world you seem to hate fun - to be big on agendas and short on spontaneity. The image you present is one of appalling conformity. The thought police is what you are ruled by.

    Country   Fun   Hate  
    Source: progressive.org
  • Copying is an art in itself, demanding the greatest technical ability, especially in watercolour. However well done, the copy invariably lacks that nascent, ineffable, but definite quality, provided by the furious enthusiasm with which an original is created, an essential spontaneity that defies reproduction.

    Art   Quality   Copying  
  • There is a pretty interesting document called 'action writing.' Which is not all about spontaneity and first thought, best thought,' but a certain kind of attention to the smallest increments of the phonemes of language, The kind of power of connection, what he is able to do with language.

    Source: logosjournal.com
  • I love the spontaneity of plays and of being onstage, because that's an energy that you can't really fabricate in movies.

    Interview with Scott Z. Burns, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 17, 2014.
  • In a normal education everything is designed to suppress spontaneity, but I wanted to develop it.

    Keith Johnstone (1981). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.15, Routledge
  • We kept moving forward and didn't try to recreate the past .. the approach to each album was radically different every time. Many bands would have some success and, because they were locked into having a single - something we didn't have to worry about - they had to make sure there was something similar on the next album ... that was never the idea with Led Zeppelin .. the goal was to keep that spark of spontaneity at all times.

    Music   Moving   Past  
  • Man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more he becomes an "individual," has no choice but to unite himself with the world in the spontaneity of love and productive work or else to seek a kind of security by such ties with the world as destroy his freedom and the integrity of his individual self.

    Integrity   Men   Self  
    Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.33, Open Road Media
  • Once the Eastern Bloc collapsed, what I call 'historical spontaneity' prevailed and the countries that were subject to Soviet control naturally gravitated to the West. That's where they sought their security; I don't think there was a way to avoid that. If we tried to exclude them, we would have today not one Europe, we would have three Europes: one in the West, one in the middle and one in the East, and the middle would be insecure and a tempting target. The insecurity felt [today] by Eastern Europe would be replicated on a much larger and more consequential scale.

    Source: www.realclearworld.com
  • Without self-expression, life lacks spontaneity and joy. Without service to others, it lacks meaning and purpose.

    Self   Expression   Joy  
    Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.67, Penguin
  • 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.

    Children   Winning   Want  
    Interview in "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, First Series", edited by Malcolm Cowley, 1958.
  • The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious habit which in the end must cloud the stream of thought, or at least check spontaneity. If it be true that le style c'est l homme, what is likely to happen if l homme is for ever eking out his own personality with that of some other individual?

    Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”
  • I'd do almost anything for love, within safe boundaries. I've flown to places to surprise people, even if it was just for a day. I think it's so important to keep the romance alive and make sure the fun and spontaneity are there.

    Fun   Thinking   People  
  • Spontaneity is not enough - or, to be more exact, spontaneity is not possible until there is an unconscious coordination of form, space and vision.

  • Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous.

    "When There's Smoke.. THERE'S FIRE!". Interview with Mordechai Kleidermacher, www.thehighwaystar.com. February, 1991.
  • 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.

    Real   Greatness   Levels  
    Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. October 11, 2007.
  • I understand politically that uprisings take place as a combination of spontaneity and preparation, not that preparation is more important than spontaneity.

    "“Exiles From the Future”: An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.
  • 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.

    Art   Judging   Criticism  
    Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.87, Harvard University Press
  • 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.

    Stories   Elements   Way  
  • Liberty and equality, spontaneity and security, happiness and knowledge, mercy and justice - all these are ultimate human values, sought for themselves alone; yet when they are incompatible, they cannot all be attained, choices must be made, sometimes tragic losses accepted in the pursuit of some preferred ultimate end.

    Loss   Justice   Choices  
    Isaiah Berlin (2013). “The Power of Ideas”, p.27, Princeton University Press
  • 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.

    "'A Real Person Who Has Real Thoughts and Feelings'". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. February 29, 2016.
  • It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.

  • Humans are powerful spiritual beings meant to create good on earth. This good isn't usually accomplished in bold actions, but in singular acts of kindness between people. It's the little things that count, because they are more spontaneous and show who you truly are.

    Dannion Brinkley, Paul Perry (2009). “Saved by the Light: The True Story of a Man Who Died Twice and the Profound Revelations He Received”, p.20, Harper Collins
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