Quotes About Spontaneity

Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.

And always, in our highly regularised way of life, he is obsessed by thoughts of the morrow. Of all the precepts in the Gospels the one that Christians have most neglected is the commandment to take no thought for the morrow. If a man is prudent, thought for the morrow will lead him to save; if he is imprudent, it will make him apprehensive of being unable to pay his debts. In either case the moment loses its savour. Everything is organised, nothing is spontaneous.

Estas salidas de lo convencional, si se hacen alegremente y sin darles importancia, no en plan provocador sino con espontaneidad, acaban tolerándose incluso en las sociedades más convencionales. Poco a poco, se puede ir adquiriendo la posición de lunático con licencia, al que se le permiten cosas que en otra persona se considerarían imperdonables.

My records do not require a lot of thought of 'What is this?' and 'What is that?' That would be too contrived for me.

There is no facet of my professional life that doesn't require or request improvisation.

You have to keep the recording process open. If you make too many decisions before you go in, you can lose out on those serendipitous moments that can really make a record, that I think are always required in the making of a really good record.

When I was younger, I thought I had to shut myself off, work really hard to cry. I learned after a while that that's just not... You know, often in life, you cry when you're caught off-guard. That's where I need to be when I'm acting, too.

In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.

When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards.

I do a lot of marathons as training runs. If I'm somewhere and there's a marathon, I'll sign up and just go run it.

I wanted to be free to try any silly thing I decided to do.

Sometimes the stuff I come up with is so silly I feel like I need to apologize at the end of every one of them.

I jump at the opportunity to have fun and just be a bit silly.

Every time I do something silly, it comes off really funny because it's natural.

Everybody's got a silly side in them.

I like girls who want to get up and dance and don't mind singing in front of my family - you know, silly stuff. Some girls won't eat in front of boys or won't go bowling. They just want to go out and look pretty. I don't really get that. I want someone who is up for having a good time.

I love to be silly as often as possible. I try to maintain a level of that in all that I do.

He meant don't overthink. Don't overprepare. Don't let research become Resistance. Don't spend six months compiling a thousand-page tome detailing the emotional matrix and family history of every character in your book. Outline it fast. Now. On instinct.

You know what? You think too much. It would do you a world of good to stop thinking and just go with your feelings once in a blue moon.

August said, "You know what? You think too much. It would do you a world of good to stop thinking and just go with your feelings once in a blue moon.

Children have a right to be children. They have a right to spend their early years being playful, spontaneous, and irresponsible.

Seconds later he was back, naked and clutching a handful of condoms. "Don't ask," he said when she glanced at them and raised her eyebrows.

I'll go, too," Martin said. "Me, too." The last voice came from behind him. Zane turned to see Phoebe leaning against the wall. Maya groaned. "Dammit, Phoebe, if you go, I'll have to, as well. Do you know what this weather is going to do to my hair?" Phoebe smiled. "Wear a hat." "Oh, yeah, that'll help in this rain.

Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own time is ridden with empty insincere formalities, you plump for spontaneity, for indecorous behavior even...Much of morality is the task of compensating for one's age. One assumes unfashionable virtues, in an indecorous time. In a time hollowed out by decorum, one must school oneself in spontaneity.