Quotes About Spontaneity

How do you make your pictures? — I don't know, it's not important.

There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

Analysis kills spontaneity.

All the evil in man, one would think, should disappear on contact with Nature, the most spontaneous expression of beauty and goodness.

You'll never catch a nudist with his pants down.

I never know what the hell I'm writing about, I never know what the next thing I'm writing about is, I never have a plan.

We were in our early twenties, playing and traveling, and didn't have to answer to anybody. It was the kind of life where if you had a problem today, you could be five hundred miles away from it the next day.

Individual experiences being limited and individual spontaneity feeble, we are strengthened and enriched by assimilating the experience of others.

Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.

Comedy chose me. I always had this urge to be silly that I couldn't control. I remember my father having me read 'The Three Little Pigs' to him, and I would improv all around the story, like when one pig's house got blown over, he put on his gym shoes and took off.

I've realized you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough.

It doesn't need to be the same every day, doesn't need to be the same shower I use, the same restaurant I go to, the same hour I go to sleep. I've always been very flexible. I don't care if I practice at nine in the morning or 10 P.M.

My mom used to call us 'free range kids,' like free range chickens... We roamed the countryside.

I used to be afraid of pain, didn't take a lot of risks, especially in love. I'm not as afraid anymore. I'm more spontaneous, more likely to say what I think.

I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.

The way I work uses a very on-the-spot flow, and I write the lyrics and the music when I feel them coming.

In my personal opinion, you miss out on the beauty of the moment if you go in planning what the moment is. It's like having a vacation too jam-packed with activities. You miss all of the sunsets.

My ideal vacation isn't about complex maneuvers. I want to arrive somewhere foreign where I don't speak the language, go hiking, then plop down in a sunny square, have drinks, read a book, and see what happens.

Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.

I want to be able to go on vacations with my friends and not have to think about a man.

We take off sometimes for impromptu vacations the moment Mahesh is free, and I join him even if I have work.

On family trips and vacations, I remember walking around with my little sister and making funny songs on the spot.

How about this,' I said. 'We modify our plans with regard to ongoing facts as they become known to us, then remodify them as the situation unfolds. 'You mean make it all up as we go along?' asked Perkins. 'Right.

Wer mein Haus betreten will, der trete ein. Wem es hier gefällt, der bleibe. Ich weigere mich, etwas zu planen. Und wenn man mich fragt, was ich aus meinem Haus mitnehmen würde, wenn es brennt, antworte ich: das Feuer.