Improvisational Quotes

37 quotes by 37 authors

The rough and ready improvisational quality to life on board the International Space Station is reminiscent of a long trip in a sailboat: privacy and… — Chris Hadfield
My entire career has been pivoting from company to company. Some people call it lack of planning or direction, I call it flexibility and good… — Justin Kan
Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering. — Margaret Atwood
When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes… — Billy Crystal
And it occurred to me that in this new millennial life of instant and ubiquitous connection, you don't in fact communicate so much as leave… — Chang-Rae Lee
I think if my daughter was interested in acting, I would find ways for her to act in theater that has to do with her… — Helen Hunt
I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up… — Amy Tan
Basketball, unlike football with its prescribed routes, is an improvisational game, similar to jazz. If someone drops a note, someone else must step into the… — Phil Jackson
As you get ready to walk out under the bright lights of the improvisational stage of the rest of your life be bold. Don't always… — Dick Costolo
Trade book publishing is by nature a cottage industry, decentralized, improvisational, personal; best performed by small groups of like-minded people, devoted to their craft, jealous… — Jason Epstein
No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is any event entirely… — David Abram
I don't like the stigma that comes with being called a poet . . . So I call what I'm doing an improvisational adventure or… — Tom Waits
I tend to a lot of improvisational ranting, and that's fun. For me, stand-up has been, performance-wise, a really good outlet. — Michael Showalter
The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on… — Ronald A. Heifetz
Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach… — Matt Cameron
I'm not a particularly good cook. Part of it is that it is the kind of cooking anybody could do if they bothered. It's improvisational.… — Steve Albini
My act is sort of improvisational. I have a skeleton in my head, but no fat or skin on it. — Paula Poundstone
My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the… — Meshell Ndegeocello
Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and… — Barry Levinson
I have a reputation for being an improvisational actor, which is true, but I also know what I'm doing so that if the improvisational strand… — Robert Carlyle

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