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Quotes About Spontaneity

Good actors, never use the script unless it's amazing writing. All the good actors I've worked with, they all say whatever they want to say.
~ Jessica Alba
Today the vast majority of the people not only have no control over the whole of the economic machine, but they have little chance to develop genuine initiative and spontaneity at the particular job they are doing.
~ Erich Fromm
that man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more he becomes an "individual," has no choice but to unite himself with the world in the spontaneity of love and productive work or else to seek a kind of security by such ties with the world as destroy his freedom and the integrity of his individual self.9
~ Erich Fromm
man's spontaneous activity. It is the security acquired each moment by man's spontaneous activity. It is the security that only freedom can give, that needs no illusions because it has eliminated those conditions that necessitate illusions.
~ Erich Fromm
How can all the small insects simultaneously know, without a brain, without knowing anything, that today they should visit this meadow, tomorrow that one? It's a question of knowing without knowing, and wanting without wanting. If you want something too intensely, things fall apart in your hands. You start to doubt everything. As soon as you let go, everything comes to you. Then you know, without knowing.
~ Erik Fosnes Hansen
I'd pull your pants down and let you ride me right here.
~ Erin McCarthy
Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Where should we go?" "I don't care. Anywhere you want. Anywhere we don't know people.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Spontaneity is a fabulous idea, but in an ongoing relationship whatever is going to "just happen" already has. Now they have to make it happen.
~ Esther Perel
Go for the hum.
~ Ethan Mordden
Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out! he exclaimed. The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise.
~ Eugen Herrigel
This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose.
~ Eugen Herrigel
Want to give up saving the world and come play with me?" There is something utterly fearless about her that I admire. While I've been fretting about how to put my skills to better use for humanity and almost dying or getting imprisoned in the process, here's a free spirit who's decided to let the world figure its own shit out while she has a blast making a fortune's worth of fuck-you money.
~ Andrew Mayne
You fill my sombrero with sexual pudding!
~ Andrew Smith
Time to ride, Dandelion." "Where to?" "Isn't it all the same?" "Yes, by and large. Let's go".
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
My instinct about painting says, "If you don't think about it, it's right."
~ Andy Warhol
David Wain just texted me and asked me if I wanted to do 'Wet Hot.' And I just said, 'Yeah, sure.' And he said, 'You want me to call you and tell you about the character?' And I was like, 'Not really. Just tell me when, and I'll do it.'
~ Adam Scott
Peter threw my coat at me and said we were taking the dog for a walk. He went down on one knee in the downpour and produced this ring! I looked horrible in my wellies with wet hair.
~ Autumn Phillips
Had I been older, I would've never been able to pull it off because I would've analyzed it to death. When I was 16, there was no such thing as 'what if.'
~ Frank Abagnale
Do what you want to try doing. Take whatever you get out of it and have fun.
~ J-Hope
Now I do whatever I want.
~ Bad Bunny
I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
~ Frida Kahlo
Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.
~ Stephen King