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#2

“Plans are invitation to disappointment.”
― Derek Landy, Mortal Coil

tags: humor, humorous, plans, spontaneity

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#3

“Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.”
― Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals

tags: duty, love, spontaneity

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#4

“There are times when thinking about something is the worst possible policy.”
― John Christopher, When the Tripods Came

tags: spontaneity

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#5

“Being spontaneous is being able to respond with confidence; calmly trusting that, whatever the outcome, you will have a positive if challenging experience that will lead to greater self-awareness and success.”
― Sylvia Clare, Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life

tags: intuition, self-awareness, spontaneity

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#6

“There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity.”
― Galt Niederhoffer, The Romantics

tags: depressing, feelings, galt-niederhoffer, life, spontaneity, summer, the-romantics, weather

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#7

“To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.”
― Bertrand Russell

tags: community, effort, friendship, happiness, spontaneity

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#8

“Some of the most thrilling things in life are done on impulse.”
― Syrie James, The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen

tags: friends, friendship, laurel-ann, life, samantha-mcdonough, spontaneity

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#9

“Say yes and you'll figure it out afterwards.”
― Tina Fey

tags: life, spontaneity, tina-fey, yes

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#11

“Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder, must work hard but spend time doing nothing as information incubates, must create many ideas yet most of them are useless, must look at the same thing as everyone else, yet see something different, must desire success but embrace failure, must be persistent but not stubborn, and must listen to experts but know how to disregard them."

[Twelve Things You Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking (The Creativity Post, December 6, 2011)]”
― Michael Michalko

tags: creative-process, creativity, ideas, individuality, information, knowledge, paradox, persistence, spontaneity, stubbornness, uniqueness

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#12

“Speaking of which, about assuming you had a condom—I just meant that you, with your experience, would be prepared for responsible sex, even if it were on the fly. An intelligent man is prepared for spontaneity.”
― Roberta Pearce, A Bird Without Wings

tags: condom, experience, intelligence, sex, spontaneity

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#13

“But spontaneity is not by any means a blind, disorderly urge, a mere power of caprice. A philosophy restricted to the alternatives of conventional language has no way of conceiving an intelligence which does not work according to plan, according to a one-at-a-time order of thought. Yet the concrete evidence of such an intelligence is right to hand in our own thoughtlessly ordered bodies. For the Tao does not 'know' how it produces the universe just as we do not 'know' how we construct our brains.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Way of Zen

tags: intelligence, philosophy, spontaneity, taoism

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#14

“Free will is the cutting edge of Creation, don’t you see? The word spontaneity derives from the Latin sponte, meaning ‘of one’s free will.’ Spontaneity is the impulse, the purest expression of freedom, and the impulse wants to do whatever it wants to do. But you are afraid of what others think, others who are just as afraid of what you think, and so you pussyfoot along the perimeter of the free-will zone, wilting like a wallflower.”
― Tony Vigorito

tags: free-will, freedom, impulse, philosphy, spontaneity, wisdom

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#17

“In life, most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. All the improvisation teacher has to do is to reverse this skill and he creates very ‘gifted’ improvisers. Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

tags: hypocrisy, self-criticism, spontaneity

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#18

“You can devise all the plans in the world, but if you don’t welcome spontaneity; you will just disappoint yourself.”
― Abigail Biddinger

tags: abigail, biddinger, disappointment, expectations, itineraries, plans, spontaneity

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