Quotes About Spontaneity

The stage and the live crowd taught me to think on my feet, to improvise.

I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.

Planning things is neither my cup of tea nor my choice. Same applies to books too.

They teach you some things, but football is instinct sometimes. You just get the ball, and sometimes you dribble past three players and pass it; other times, you can shoot from far away. It's just instinct. If you feel something, just do it. I am free to do that.

I was never a class clown or anything like that, but I do remember being in the first grade and my teacher, Mr. Chad, told the class one day that we were going to do some exercises. He meant math exercises, but I stood up and started doing jumping jacks. To this day, I don't know what possessed me to do that, but all my friends cracked up.

I think good actors are born with a kind of native gift. When you study too much with an acting teacher, that gets taken away. You lose your sense of spontaneity.

I could always improvise. Some of my teachers remember me standing in front of the class with a flower on my head, talking about photosynthesis. I'd stop and say, 'Is this working for any of you?' The kids were like, 'What is he doing?'

His fingers just flew over the notebook paper of their own accord. The words, just right, continued to flow from Emory, using only instinct and no thought.

Don't think. Just do it.

I've never stopped wanting to cross the equator, or touch an elk's horns, or sing Tosca or screw James Dean in a field of wheat. To hell with wisdom. They're all wrong: I'll never be through with my life.

By freeing the mind from its negative and neurotic patterns and liberating our inner potential, we experience a spontaneous response which will be helpful and beneficial to others.

The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I've had sex in trains, planes, wine bars... and quite a few car parks!

I'm a born entertainer, when I open the fridge and the light comes on, I burst into song.

Jazz has endured because it doesn't have a beginning or an ending. It's a moment.

In life; have as much fun as you can get away with!

Ever wonder where you'd end up if you took your dog for a walk and never once pulled back on the leash?

One day you just say "To heck with it," and you go looking for trouble, and you find happiness.

Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head.

Primero tendrás que demostrar que eres menos inhibido que tu público: que irradias una sexualidad peligrosa, no temes a la muerte, eres deliciosamente espontáneo. Aun un indicio de estas cualidades hará pensar a la gente que eres más poderoso de lo que en verdad eres.

My policy is to have no policy. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, 1809–1865

Daily Law: Do something today that you used to love doing as a kid. Try to reconnect with your impulse voices. Robert Greene in conversation at Live Talks Los Angeles, February 11, 2019

When spontaneity and individuality and really good original stuff occurred in a classroom it was in spite of the instruction, not because of it. This seemed to make sense. He was ready to resign. Teaching dull conformity to hateful students wasn't what he wanted to do.

You just make it up as you go along.

But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.