Spontaneity Quotes · Page 5

My great overall skill is spontaneity and winging it!

— Grayson Perry

I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.

— Dane Cook

In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.

— Bruce Lee

“There’s a time and place for spontaneity,”

— Ken Follett

Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous.

— Ritchie Blackmore

There's nothing like the spontaneity of making something work on stage.

— Frankie Grande

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Don't you think now is the time to be adventurous, while we're still young?

— Anonymous

Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of…

— Tariq Ramadan

“I love occasional spontaneity, but most things require planning. Hair, for instance.”

— John Evan Garvey

When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity...I can be sure that I am right.

— Federico Fellini

“The charm of your society, my Sparrow, lies in not knowing what you will say next – though one rapidly learns to…

— Georgette Heyer

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

— Andrew Bird

With kids, they force you to get out of bed. They force you to smile. They remind you of spontaneity.

— Fred D'Aguiar

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

There's not a lot of creativity when you're dealing with a disability, there's not a lot of freedom and spontaneity.

— Dana Reeve

The fact is that it takes more than ingredients and technique to cook a good meal. A good cook puts something of…

— Pearl Bailey

“Do mountains of preparation kill spontaneity? Absolutely not. I’ve found that it’s just the opposite. When you know what you’re doing, you…

— Anonymous

Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression…

— Helen Lynd

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot…

— John F. Kennedy

“We can’t jump off bridges anymore because our iPhones will get ruined. We can’t take skinny dips in the ocean because there’s…

— Jeremy Glass

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it…

— William Hazlitt

There is a pretty interesting document called 'action writing.' Which is not all about spontaneity and first thought, best thought,' but a…

— Anne Waldman

Liberty and equality, spontaneity and security, happiness and knowledge, mercy and justice - all these are ultimate human values, sought for themselves…

— Isaiah Berlin

One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito,…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

[As a kid] I felt it was really weird that music schools behaved like a conveyor belt to make performers for those…

— Bjork

I was working in this very bombastic style. I didn’t really know about style. I didn’t think about it: I did what…

— David LaChapelle

“Where was the excitement in dependability? Where was the spontaneity in a predictable world? He could offer her an eternity of challenges…

— A.G. Howard

We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

There is onslaught is the accelerating momentum of technologies and instrumental mentalities that are exterminating spontaneity, undermining love and common decency. It's…

— Stephanie Mills

“But spontaneity is not by any means a blind, disorderly urge, a mere power of caprice. A philosophy restricted to the alternatives…

— Alan Wilson Watts

If one partner gives himself completely, he breaks down the barriers of the other, however strong they may be. Because the act…

— Paulo Coelho

I consider this a kind of neoliberalism of the Left, this rise and promotion of spontaneity above preparation.

— Vijay Prashad

“You can devise all the plans in the world, but if you don’t welcome spontaneity; you will just disappoint yourself.”

— Abigail Biddinger

I am all in favour of spontaneity, providing it is carefully planned and ruthlessly controlled.

— John Gielgud

Usually it's a pretty calculated, sustained, and slow process by which you develop something. The effect can be one of spontaneity, but…

— Richard Estes

Sometimes love happens by accident, when you least expect it. You can't prepare for it, you can't be ready. It just happens.

— Anonymous

[on her role as Special Agent Dana Scully on The X-Files (1993)] I am more spontaneous than my character.

— Gillian Anderson

Sight gags had to be planned; they required timing and mechanics. Occasionally, spontaneity would arise in the shooting of the scenes.

— Stan Laurel

Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises.

— Erma Bombeck