Steve Jobs
Entrepreneur
"Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions."
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Spontaneous
97 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Laozi
Philosopher
"Nurture the spontaneous peaceful life."
Ian Stevenson
Psychiatrist, Researcher
"The most promising evidence bearing on reincarnation seems to come from the spontaneous cases, especially among children."
Marilyn Monroe
Actress, Model
"I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous."
Richard Prince
Artist
"A lot of it's experimental, spontaneous. It's about knocking about in the studio and bumping into things."
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"Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront."
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"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."
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"Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions."
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"One take, so you better be ready and you better be good. One take and that was it. It was something that was spontaneous. Both Sid Caesar and Jackie Gleason was like that as well."
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"The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God."
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"Romance should be spontaneous, but in my career I'm totally in control."
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"Any damn fool can be spontaneous."
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"Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man."
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"Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others."
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"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."
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"Peace is something spontaneous; it is something that unites us. Peace is something that we have to spread. But unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world."
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"True popular ballads are the spontaneous products of nature."
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"By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful."
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"The sophisticated concern about art sinks before a spontaneous love of reality, and I thank the photograph for being so transparent a vehicle for things."
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"What reason would grope for in vain, spontaneous impulse ofttimes achieves at a stroke, with light and pleasureful guidance."
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"The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling."
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"The key to spontaneous wit is an unburdened mind."
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"The better organized you are in the simple things, the more spontaneous and free you can be in the ore important things."
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"O sweet spontaneous earth"
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"The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end."
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