#improv

Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#competitive #doomed #ecological #evolutionary #extinction

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. ↗

— Carson McCullers

#aware #book #existence #human #human existence

I got involved in improv comedy. It settled me down when I was getting wild. I was sort of an evil teenager smashing up my cars and drinking and driving, let's just say, a lot. ↗

— Bruce McCulloch

#comedy #down #drinking #driving #evil

I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground. ↗

— John McLaughlin

#common #common ground #degree #develops #find

When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we're improvising, I'm with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don't have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage. ↗

— Colin Mochrie

#control #created #everything #going #guarantees

We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells. ↗

— William Taylor

#cells #cured #found #hanging #honey

You can't prove any hypothesis, you can only improve or disprove it. ↗

— Christopher Monckton

#disprove #hypothesis #improve #only #prove

My role is to try to remove the impediments to entrepreneurs' chance to succeed. It's about improving the business climate to give people a better chance of succeeding. ↗

— Jerry Moran

#better #better chance #business #chance #climate

If we all make a concerted effort and try to improve the life of someone else, then this world would be a better place to live in. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#better place #concerted #concerted effort #effort #else

For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.' ↗

— Olivia Munn

#applause #basketball #because #give #going