Quotes About Improvisation

Rachel knew what she was doing. And when she didn't, she could improvise on the fly, coming up with options that left a lot of collateral damage but usually only hurt herself, not the people around her. It was one of the things he would never admit that he admired about her.

We'll all have an ice-cream cake to celebrate! Except for we don't have a freezer!

I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing, and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works.

Is he always like this?" she said irritably. "Flying by the seat of his pants?""Pretty much, yeah." Oliver grinned. "He's not a planner. But he happens to be the best improviser I've ever known.

It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.

Minha consciência não passava de uma ferramenta de distorção, e meu controle, de conjecturas incertas, pura adivinhação. [...] O auto-engano era agora minha última esperança. Um ferido não exige que o curativo improvisado esteja necessariamente limpo

I never plan ahead, with the exception of the Amber books which had to proceed in sequence. But I don't really like to know what I'm going to be working on a year in advance. So I just sign blank contracts for books and whatever strikes me as a good idea is what I write about.

None of my friends know how to play imagining games the way you do," Melanie said. "Some of them can do it a little bit but they mostly don't have any very good ideas. And a lot of them only like ball games or other things that are already made up. But I like imagining games better than anything.

Keith Jarrett,

Emergency Valve Regulators," she repeated. "So you do know what your doing? "Not really," he said yanking another wire. 'I made up that term to keep you happy. I'm just pulling all the red wires because they're the pretty ones.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Companies have to take risks to get new knowledge, in a manner similar to how jazz musicians take risks when they go after a new approach to a tune or a performance.

I have this tendency to take a little bit of questionable knowledge and riff on it.

Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals.

He was responsible for administering an army that lacked time-tested procedures and routinized policies, so every decision became an improvisational act.

There is no algorithm for creativity.

One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.

I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn.

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

There are as many ways to discover your story as there are to trip over a dog in the kitchen--and some of them feel about as planned.

every Toyota team member goes through a basic set of development steps at each stage of her development, following the process of basic learning by copying exactly (shu), mastering the basics so that they become second nature (ha), and becoming so masterful at the basics that she can go beyond these and improvise (ri).

That's the way both they and I travel sometimes. Pick road at random, and when it's time to pull over, you pull over and hope you can find a place to crash.

That, as my cousin Nord would say, is where my improvised lie falls apart.

It's like weaving: the weaver does not make the wool, he makes the best use of whatever wool he's given.