#spontaneity

For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state. ↗

— Adam Johnson

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When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#flour #grain #ground #into #kills

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. ↗

— Ted Nugent

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I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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The essence of pleasure is spontaneity. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#pleasure #spontaneity

Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in hours of highly repetitive and structured practice--perfecting their shooting, dribbling, and passing and running plays over and over again--and agrees to play a carefully defined role on the court. . . . spontaneity isn't random. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#practice #spontaneity #thin-slicing #random

There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation. ↗

— Larry David

#generally #jokes #life #particular #people

I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better. ↗

— Ace Frehley

#better #guitar #i #like #pick

But I really like hosting, I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I'm funny behind the desk when interviewing someone. ↗

— Garry Shandling

#behind #desk #funny #hosting #i