#spontaneity

Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in hours of highly repetitive and structured practice--perfecting their shooting, dribbling, and passing and running plays over and over again--and agrees to play a carefully defined role on the court. . . . spontaneity isn't random. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#practice #spontaneity #thin-slicing #random

The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral. ↗

— Simon Hoggart

#dinner party #formal #funeral #imperial #japanese

I like Vegas for its spontaneity. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#like #spontaneity #vegas

There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation. ↗

— Larry David

#generally #jokes #life #particular #people

Spontaneity has its time and its place. ↗

— Arthur Frank Burns

#spontaneity #time

Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are. ↗

— John McLaughlin

#spontaneity #truly #who

There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity. ↗

— Galt Niederhoffer

#feelings #galt-niederhoffer #life #spontaneity #summer

I want to do something spontaneous, like combust. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #spontaneity #funny

I live for the present and foot the bill to whoever wasn’t invited. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #life #spontaneity #funny

Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business. ↗

— Chuck Barris

#entertaining #facet #show #show business #spontaneity