Spontaneity Quotes

I don't get up, get dressed, go out, and think, 'Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.'

There are no rules when it comes to love. I just try to let love surprise me because you never know who you’re going to fall in love with.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Inspiration gives no warnings.

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment's notice.

Nature hates calculators.

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

But then you make eye contact with someone across the room and it clicks and you’re right there in love again.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Love is spontaneous and craves expression through joy, through beauty, through truth, even through tears. Love lives the moment; it's neither lost in yesteryear nor does it crave for tomorrow. Love is NOW!

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay 'forever young at heart.'

When I'm sittin' down to dinner with the family, stuff [another Yogiism] just pops out. And they'll say, 'Dad, you just said another one.' And I don't even know what the heck I said.

When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.

Spontaneity is an infinite number of rehearsed possibilities.

How about we just see where life takes us for awhile?

Life is to be lived, not controlled.

Rush out in the rain to be soaked with the sky.

Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?

I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use.

I don't think about one trick or the other, they just happen.

I ad lib most of my dialogue. If I did remember my lines, it would be too bad for me.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians.

I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.

People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.

There are videos where I would go approaching strangers and sing the songs from 'The Lion King. I would have been about four years, and I came running up to people on the beach, strangers that I chose at random and began to sing, and my family never knew where I was, they were always looking for me, trying to imagine who I was harassing this time .

I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.

The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient ... But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem. It's ad hoc meetings of six people called by someone who thinks he has figured out the coolest new thing ever and who wants to know what other people think of his idea.

I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worthwhile to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

When someone mentions the gracefulness of the night sky, climb up on the roof and dance and say, like this?

The way I look at love is you have to follow it, and fall hard, if you fall hard. You have to forget about what everyone else thinks. It has to be an us-against-the-world mentality. You have to make it work by prioritizing it, and by falling in love really fast, without thinking too hard. If I think too hard about a relationship I'll talk myself out of it. I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

The principle of martial arts is not a thing that can be learned, like a science, by fact-finding and instruction in facts. It has to grow spontaneously, like a flower, in a mind free from emotions and desires.

Significant things often happen when you are present. Things come to you, and then you respond to what is required. The response very often comes without a premeditated idea of what you want. It is simply a response to the situation.

The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has to be exciting, instantaneous and it has to be a surprise. Then it all comes blurting out and it’s beautiful. I’ve had a sign by my typewriter for 25 years now which reads, ‘DON’T THINK!’

Nurture the spontaneous peaceful life.

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

I'm like a big 10-year-old when I'm on stage. I just go up there and do whatever I think is cool at the moment.

I don't look for boyfriends, I don't really scour the awards shows for who I'm going to date, but I think love happens when you're not looking for it, and when it happens, I'm not going to be the one to overthink it.

Every so often, let your spirit of adventure triumph over your good sense.

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

I have rules for life, but not for love. If I think too hard about a relationship, I'll talk myself out of it

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do something, it's for an intelligent reason. So it's really foolish to plot out your movements too carefully in advance. You're better off acting capriciously.

As soon as your mind knows that it's on and it's supposed to produce some lines, either it doesn't or it produces things that are very predictable. And that's why I say I'm not interested in writing something that I thought about. I'm interested in discovering where my mind wants to go, or what object it wants to pick up.

You cannot have a desire to surrender because that's non-surrender. Surrender arises spontaneously sometimes in people who don't even have a word for it. And I know that openness is there in many people.

The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.

Though logic-choppers rule the town,And every man and maid and boyHas marked a distant object down,An aimless joy is a pure joy.

Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can't think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don't build a story; you allow it to explode.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.

If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived.