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Quotes About Spontaneity

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.
~ Jalaluddin Rumi
There's no preparation for poetry.
~ Charles Simic
I'm a wanderessI'm a one night standDon't belong to no cityDon't belong to no man(Note: These lyrics were inspired by Roman Payne's quote from his novel "The Wanderess".)
~ Halsey
Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart
~ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Kiss till you can't kiss any more, kiss on the street in front of everyone, kiss as if each one were the last.
~ Ali Harris
Authorities! Permits! Insurance! How I yearn for the days when a man could just bust loose, tear around and get what needs to be done, done.
~ Will Murray
Her new mantra was a piece of wisdom given to her by a friend of my sister who specialized in palliative care: "Make Plans and Cancel Them.
~ Will Schwalbe
We talked filth for a pleasant half hour.
~ William Boyd
In summer, the song sings itself.
~ William Carlos Williams
but for the Girl Writing A Letter these things don't matter, she's got a beer in her free hand, she's on the road, she's real and she's in love.
~ William Carpenter
Grab your coat, leave a note, and run away with me.
~ William Chapman
Variety's the very spice of life.
~ William Cowper
We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
~ William Fullbright
When I was your age these warm nights you couldn't of held me down with a log chain. I'd do anything. I'd wake up in Alaska hung over with my beard froze to the ground. I'd hang around and pick me up one of them young girls that wanders around. Take her down by the tie yard and throw a tool to her.
~ William Gay
Closing down in the midst of pain is a denial of a man's true nature. A superior man is free in feeling and action, even amidst great pain and hurt. If necessary, a man should live with a hurting heart rather than a closed one. He should learn to stay in the wound of pain and act with spontaneous skill and love even from that place.
~ David Deida
The secret of successfully giving yourself away lies not so much in calculated actions as in cultivating friendly, warm-hearted impulses. You have to train yourself to obey giving impulses on the instant -- before they get a chance to cool. When you give impulsively, something happens inside of you that makes you glow, sometimes for hours.
~ David Dunn
Il arrive si souvent qu'une action trop spontanée soit contre-productive
~ David Foenkinos
Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
~ David Herbert Lawrence
Nothing is more admirable, than the readiness, with which the imagination suggests its ideas, and presents them at the very instant, in which they become necessary or useful.
~ David Hume
Life was about improvisation. The scripted operations were the ones that usually went wrong.
~ David Ignatius
Falling in love is thus the most conformist method of being an individual. Conversely, falling in love is the most original and spontaneous way to conform, perhaps the only way of conforming to social demands that will never make you look like a conformist. It is the one way that you can behave like everyone else and still claim, at the same time, that you did it your way.
~ David M. Halperin
I want people to surprise themselves. Instead of saying "Oh, god, didn't we already do this 17 times?"
~ David Fincher
The camera guys can't mess up. God bless them, they hardly ever do. But they literally don't know what's going to happen next. None of us do. And it all has to come together and be funny.
~ Billy Eichner