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Quotes About Spontaneity

My unpremeditated verse.
~ John Milton
I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.
~ John O'Donohue
A capacidade de improvisar bem é um talento altamente respeitado e pode conduzir a uma interação de facto interessante entre os músicos intervenientes. Até pode tornar-se competitiva, à medida que os músicos se estimulam reciprocamente a chegar a novos patamares.
~ John Powell
Repeating instructions is a practical technique, but everything Michelangelo writes has this quality of pouring out his desires in the order they occur to him.
~ John T. Spike
Cookbooks can be wonderfully entertaining and informative, but I don't like having to bring them with me to the stove. My goal as a cook has always been not so much to attain some specific sense of mastery as to be able to just go into the kitchen, take up what I find there, and make a meal of it.
~ John Thorne
The mere act of doing the unexpected thing created one funny moment after another.
~ John Vorhaus
Speak your mind, but ride a very fast horse!!
~ John Wain
This, the shift to self-delighting spontaneity, is what she's always hoping for in her dealings with others: she sees that now,
~ Elizabeth Tallent
If we don't begin with a rigid plan, it is hard to make a mistake.
~ Ellen J. Langer
She thought for a minute about going back, but decided that maybe being wet on a sort-of adventure was better than being dry and bored for sure.
~ Ellen Klages
When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along.
~ Elliott Erwitt
As we talked, we realized that we actually improvise everything we do, from the way we walk down the street to the way we prepare a meal. Can you imagine speaking without improvising? Yet the word improvisation terrifies most people, musician and non-musician alike.
~ Eloise Ristad
Don't put your heart out on your sleeve, When your remarks are off the cuff - Riot Act from Get Happy
~ Elvis Costello
Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do 'em all together, I guess.
~ Elvis Presley
After a sleepless night, the people in the street seem automatons. No one seems to breathe, to walk. Each looks as if he is worked by clockwork: nothing spontaneous; mechanical smiles, spectral gesticulations. Yourself a specter, how would you see others as alive?
~ Emil M. Cioran
To will, in the fullest sense of the word, is to be unaware that one wills, is to refuse to loiter over the phenomenon of the will. The man of action weighs neither his impulses nor his motives, still less does he consult his reflexes: he obeys them without reflecting upon them, without hampering them.
~ Emil M. Cioran
Allow spontaneity in your life!
~ Emilie Barnes
I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
~ Bai Ling
If I were a father I should hate the child, who, punctual as the clock, had every morning and evening an explosion of tenderness and wished me good-day and good-evening, because he was ordered to do so. It is in this way that all that is generous and spontaneous in human sentiment becomes strangled at its birth. You may judge from this what love means when it is bound to a fixed hour!
~ balzac honore de iii
If you--or anyone on this train, for that matter--thought of life as a kind of train, instead of worrying only about your usual destinations, you'd be surprised how far you could go, just with the money you have in your wallet right now.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
What would I do where platforms, microphones and screens denied me? That's easy. I'd go to the races.
~ bankhead tallulah ii
singing to the radio when you drive
~ Barbara Ann Kipfer
Just then Rosie skipped down the stairs and across the lobby. Rosie never walked - she tripped or skipped or danced.
~ Barbara Cohen
She scrunched herself around the tickling and giggled. It was a heavenly sound. He moved the bunny back, hopped it forward, tickled her again. The giggling was precious, both in its lack of guile and its spontaneity. He was amazed at how easily it had come.
~ Barbara Delinsky