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Quotes About Spontaneity

Song-forms are just like jello molds, ya know? I like goofing around. [ Pour some flavor in there? ] Yeah; and wait for it to sit.
~ Tom Waits
My gameplan is not to have a gameplan.
~ Unknown
Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway. So you might as well enjoy the process.
~ Unknown
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.
~ Unknown
Moomintroll's mother and father always welcomed all their friends in the same quiet way, just adding another bed and putting another leaf in the dining-room table. And so Moominhouse was rather full -- a place where everyone did what they liked and seldom worried about tomorrow. Very often unexpected and disturbing things used to happen, but nobody ever had time to be bored, and that is always a good thing.
~ Tove Jansson
Moomin need not have worried, for the Little My's of this world are practically indestructible.
~ Tove Jansson
All his life Snufkin had longed to pull down notices that asked him not to do things he liked to do.
~ Tove Jansson
I'm going to sleep outside. I don't want a bed. Beds are stupid.
~ Tove Jansson
Spika på du bara, man måste skynda sig medan man har lust.
~ Tove Jansson
The plan is: there is no plan.
~ Unknown
What are you doing tonight?' 'Sex, drugs, tattooing our arms with old syringes off the street, that kind of thing,' he said good-naturedly.
~ Unknown
Dada est la vie sans pantoufles ni parallèles; qui est contre et pour l'unité et décidément contre le futur; [...] et crachons sur l'humanité.
~ Tristan Tzara
It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.
~ Truman Capote
WAKE UP! WE'RE LATE FOR DRINKING!!
~ Tucker Max
I take a lull from my CamelBak and choke at its potency. It tastes like bad decisions. It's perfect.
~ Tucker Max
If you have too much of a plan, it'll show up in Darkstalker's view of the future," Anemone observed. "See, so it's actually better to wing it," said Qibli. "Ha ha, dragon pun, wing it. I'm hilarious." He did a little flip in the air.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Bumblebee when I named her! I'd like to see you come up with a better name at that age!" "Wordibird," Bumblebee said sleepily from her sling, and Cricket laughed again.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
High creativity is responding to situations without critical thought.' - John Cleese
~ Paul Arden
The word paradise came out of my mouth, without thinking.
~ Paul Fleischman
Haven't you ever gotten carried away and done something totally spur of the moment like that?" "Everybody gets carried away from time to time," Tracy told the boy who had carried him away.
~ Unknown
improvisational infrastructure.
~ Paul Theroux
I stopped simply to look around, in the idle curiosity that is available to any person with a car in Mexico and no particular place to go.
~ Paul Theroux
Try to live with the same intensity as a child. He doesn't ask for explanations; he dives into each day as if it were a new adventure and, at night, sleeps tired and happy.
~ Paulo Coelho
If one partner gives himself completely, he breaks down the barriers of the other, however strong they may be. Because the act of giving means: I trust you. The other, who to begin with may feel rather intimidated, wanting to prove things which aren't even under discussion, is unarmed by the spontaneity of such an attitude, and relaxes. At that moment, true sexual energy comes into play.
~ Paulo Coelho