Improvisation Quotes
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There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of
human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address
book.
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More Improvisation Quotes
But if politics is an art, it is not like sculpture or painting, where one side acts and the other is passive material. It is more like drama without a script, or dance without choreography - in other words, improvisation. Either player may surprise us again with a new move.
thomas flanagan— Chapter 3, Stalemate At Lubicon Lake, p. 54
Our foreign policy was an improvisation. Like Schacht's financial policy, it lacked foresight. The Nazis kept talking about a thousand-year Reich, but they couldn't think ahead for five minutes!
paul schmidt— To Leon Goldensohn (13 March 1946). Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.
john dewey— The American Background, Freedom and Culture (1939)
Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end, whether it's writing a song, or playing guitar, or a particular chord sequence, or blowing a horn, it's based on improvisation and spontaneity.
van morrison— March 1978 Hot Press Interview by Dermot Stokes
Volleyball is one of the most interactive games going. It is a game of intuition, imagination, improvisation – but most of all, of reciprocity – of teamwork. There is no way to freelance in volleyball.
Marv Dunphy— As quoted in Managing Risk in Sport and Recreation: The Essential Guide for Loss Prevention by Katharine M. Nohr (2009, pg. 337)
Our foreign policy was an improvisation. Like Schacht's financial policy, it lacked foresight. The Nazis kept talking about a thousand-year Reich, but they couldn't think ahead for five minutes!
— To Leon Goldensohn (13 March 1946). Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
