#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

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#art form #been #before #creating #flourish

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

— Simon Hoggart

#dinner party #formal #funeral #imperial #japanese

The way that I live my life is on spontaneity. ↗

— Melanie Brown

#life #live #my life #spontaneity #way

It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged. ↗

— Bill Condon

#event #live #more #more and more #nature

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

I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better. ↗

— Ace Frehley

#better #guitar #i #like #pick

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death. ↗

— Rollo May

#also #being #beyond #childhood #creativity

Spontaneity has its time and its place. ↗

— Arthur Frank Burns

#spontaneity #time