Quotes About Spontaneity

It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come." -Winnie-the-Pooh

One advantage of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries

She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Every one says, "Run along, There's a little darling!" If I'm a little darling, why don't they run with me?

Piglet thought that they ought to have a Reason for going to see everybody, like Looking for Small or Organizing an Expotition, if Pooh could think of something. Pooh could. "We'll go because it's Thursday," he said, "and we'll go to wish everybody a Very Happy Thursday. Come on, Piglet.

When we consider a child's natural interest in things, we begin to realize the dangers of both reward and punishment. Rewards and punishment tend to pressure a child into interest. But true interest is the life force of the whole personality, and such interest is completely spontaneous.

Small boys often produce their own plays; but usually the parts are not written out. They hardly need to be, for the main line of each character is always "Stick 'em up!" In these plays the curtain is always rung down on a set of corpses, for small boys are by nature through and uncompromising.

Live your life like it is the last day you live!

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

I find a tattered copy of 1984. I open the book and read a little. Of course it is fiction, but the author gets a few things right—the control, the scrutiny, the feeling that nothing can be spontaneous, that the slightest move carries consequences for your future. It evokes a feeling I haven't experienced in a long time, a sense that, even though you have a great job and house, there is no safe place to turn. The

Pre-heat the oven? Really? If I was the sort of person who planned ahead, I wouldn't be eating this Totino's Party Pizza in the first place.

Inspiration as the primary source of artistic creativity is no more than an attractive fiction, for spontaneity plays as relatively minor a role in art as it does in philosophical and scientific thinking.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong. That's what I find with acting. As soon as it becomes padded, it becomes pat.

To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or do something that's sort of abstract or off the beaten path and have people connect to it by just putting your ideas together, that really makes me happy.

I don't really try to pattern myself after any particular person. I pretty much make it up as I go along.

I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.

There's no fixed pattern or formula to life.

I don't have a pattern in my life. That makes me a great boyfriend because it's exciting. But I may not make a great husband.

It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

Comedy has no rules, per se.

I love the way little kids dress themselves! They're completely carefree about how others perceive them.

I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged.

No one set that I ever do is the same. I mean, if I go to a comedy club, and I perform three sets, all three sets are different because anything can happen in between sets.