Quotes About Spontaneity

Sometimes it's good to give people something they're not expecting.

If you start freaking out, call me and we'll go for a walk. Or we'll ride the night buses. We'll smoke some pot and get the giggles and eat a whole bag of chips. We'll walk up and down the alleys looking for treasure and avoiding skunks. Any of those things. None of those things. Whatever you can think of. In fact, you don't even have to think about all the silly things. I can do that too. Your girlfriend will be in charge of distractions.

throw caution to the wind and just do it

Suddenly there was a month to kill. I decided I wanted to spend it in warmth, so with a hundred bucks in my shoe (good place to hide it), I stuck out my thumb and arrived in Miami two days later.

Suddenly there was a month to kill. I decided I wanted to spend it in warmth, so with a hundred bucks in my show (good place to hide it), I stuck out my thumb and arrived in Miami two days later.

One of the great things about anarchy is that it's hard to get it organized.

We're children. We're supposed to be childish.

Never do what they expect,

Why was she dancing? No reason. Just alive, I guess.

The charm of your society, my Sparrow, lies in not knowing what you will say next – though one rapidly learns to expect the worst!

Genuine bravery occurs when you least expect it, and when, in fact, you're quite oblivious of it.  Sometimes heroism happens when you press on; other times when you let go.  Once in a while, it happens when you do a little dance all your own.

All I can do is act according to my deepest instinct, and be whatever I must be-crazy or ribald or sad or compassionate or loving or indifferent. That is all anybody can do.

I go by instinct. ... I don't worry about experience.

Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.

When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity ... I can be sure that I am right.

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

Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment, of trusting your instincts, of taking yourself by surprise and snatching from the clutches of your well-organized routine a bit of unscheduled pleasure.

Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.

There are no rules. Just follow your heart.

None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.

If someone said, "Write a sentence about your life," I'd write, "I want to go outside and play."

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

The best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!