45 Quotes About Improvisation

Self-satisfaction is something which relaxes the mind before preparing it to think more; praise yourself after successfully finishing the work, but always be open to improvisation for keeping the satisfaction level in check. Do not stop at that point because by doing that you are robbing yourself a chance to become the best.

When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold feet. "I can't do this," I said. "I don't know what to say.""Say anything," he said. "You can't make a mistake when you improvise.""What if I mess it up? What if I screw up the rhythm?""You can't," he said. "It's like drumming. If you miss a beat, you create another."In this simple exchange, Sam taught me the secret of improvisation, one that I have accessed my whole life.

I’ve been an improviser since I was in my twenties. There’s really no failing in improv. You just go on to the next thing.

Warum die Muse ihn jetzt anstarrte, wusste er nicht. Es war, als würden sie eine Komödie oder ein Psychodrama aufführen und alle wussten, was sie zu sagen hatten, nur er hatte das Skript nicht bekommen, tappte im Dunkeln und musste jetzt improvisieren. Und das auch noch, obwohl er gar nicht mitspielen wollte.

E' la capacità d'improvvisare indipendentemente da quanto stabilito, la vera cartina di tornasole della capacità di una persona.

Learn the rules and then break them in such a way as to exercise good taste.

Believe it or not, this simple phrase, “Yes! And . . .” is the secret of improv.

One of the innate dilemmas of biography is that life is not much like a book. It rarely contains a clearly stated thesis, coherently developed. Life sprawls, stumbles, advances, retreats, gropes for the light switch, and once in a while makes intuitive leaps whose import is barely understood until later, if ever, by the leaper. Life seems to me an improvisation.

Bold choices require risk-taking. Let your ideas out to play. Make bold choices, sticking to your point of view, and letting go of the things that do not serve you.