Spur Of The Moment Quotes

• I'm very 'spur of the moment'. I'm always trying to think of fun things to do to create a memory.

  Josh Hartnett

  Fun, Memories, Thinking

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• You often feel like you are on a high wire with no net productions because you have to rely on spontaneity and come up with ideas on the spur of the moment - and then what happens is that there is electricity to it that gets caught.

  Nicolas Cage

  Ideas, Wire, Spurs

  "National Treasure: Book of Secrets - Nicolas Cage interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It is often spur-of-the-moment decisions, sometimes made by others, that can change our whole lives.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Decision, Spurs, Quiet

  Jeffrey Archer (2009). “Sons of Fortune”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment.

  Eric Stoltz

  Lying, Reading, Phones

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• Sometimes the best decisions in life are on the spur of the moment. So I generally try to do what I think is right. And sometimes I make mistakes.

  David Rubenstein

  Mistake, Thinking, Decision

  "All-American" with Morley Safer, www.cbsnews.com. May 3, 2015.

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• Raising children is a spur-of-the-moment, seat-of-the-pants sort of deal, as any parent knows, particularly after an adult child says that his most searing memory consists of an offhand comment in the car on the way to second grade that the parent cannot even dimly recall.

  Anna Quindlen

  Memories, Children, Car

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• [Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot, and the way we think and act – and how well we think and act on the spur of the moment – are a lot more susceptible to outside influences than we realize.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Thinking, Spurs, Research

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• That's what we're all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand. We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.

  Alan Arkin

  Party, Heart, Hands

  Alan Arkin (2011). “An Improvised Life: A Memoir”, p.191, Da Capo Press

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• The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Lying, Spurs, Details

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The True Darcy Spirit: A Novel”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• I choose color on the spur of the moment. People ask me why I paint in red. I do not have the slightest idea. I was painting in blue, then I had a need to paint in red. To be able to interact with the medium, this is the key. There are no sure ways to do art.

  Guido Molinari

  Art, Blue, Color

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• Most of my photographs were taken on the spur of the moment, very quickly, just as they occurred. All attention focuses on the specific instant, almost too good to be true, which can only vanish in the following one.

  Willy Ronis

  Taken, Spurs, Attention

  "Willy Ronis obituary" by Amanda Hopkinson, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2009.

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• When you make a decision you need facts. If those facts are in your brain, they're at your fingertips. If they're all in Google somewhere you may not make the right decision on the spur of the moment.

  Ken Jennings

  Decision, Google, Brain

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I haven't really met anyone else who has influenced me, but you never know, it could happen next year or next month. I just like to go with the spur of the moment.

  Robin Gibb

  Years, Spurs, Next Year

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Jazz is not a game of chance. Its sonorous disorder is only an appearance. It is an organized force obeying obscure laws, conforming to a secret technique, codified or not, and we discover that no one can become a virtuoso on the spur of the moment in this orchestra of 'noisemakers.

  Wanda Landowska

  Music, Law, Games

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• If I ask you to plunge into the Ganga or to jump from the roof of a house, meaning it all for your good, could you do even that without any hesitations Just think of it even now; otherwise don't rush forward on the spur of the moment to accept me as your Guru.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Thinking, House, Spurs

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3044, Manonmani Publishers

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• I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Thinking, Ideas, Judgement

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.158, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• All I know about 1970s New York City is that it's where I grew up, and you always have an umbilical connection to the time and place of your growing up. It was cheap, didn't have too many people in it, you could go to the movies or whatever on the spur of the moment, you could get by without working too much and especially without involving yourself in the corporate world.

  Luc Sante

  New York, Growing Up, Cities

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• It usually happens spur of the moment, like when I broke up My Chemical Romance, it was just that day that I decided it was time for them to be done. And people were very upset about it so I have to choose my next victims carefully.

  Mark Hoppus

  People, Romance, Upset

  "Interview: Mark Hoppus On Blink-182's New Album, 'california'". Coup De Main Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 27, 2016.

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• You learn new song until you're comfortable with it to where you can record it blindfolded, but then when it comes out on the record, you forget about those little nuances and those little things that you changed during the recording process. It's those spur-of-the-moment things you do that makes it an entirely new beast that you then again have to relearn.

  Chuck Ragan

  Song, Spurs, Records

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Mistakes happen. Not every one of my suspensions was purposeful or intentional. A lot of that stuff happens spur of the moment in the middle of a game. I think I can bring that to the table. Sometimes emotions get the best of you. Things happen.

  Chris Pronger

  Mistake, Thinking, Games

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Running with the bulls was one of my crazier judgments in life and one of those things I decided to do spur of the moment. It was pretty hilarious.

  Heather Mitts

  Running, Spurs, Bulls

  Source: soccerlens.com

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• I spent a fair amount of time editing the lyrics and allowing the song to kind of evolve. ... anytime there's anything worthwhile, it certainly 'feels' like it happened on the spur of the moment, but it's a composite of lots of spurs of the moment, hopefully. And over time, you catch up with those, and then you have a full set of lyrics you've thought of and you feel comfortable singing.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Song, Writing, Editing

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• My education was a huge influence. I trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute at Tisch, which is a huge foundation for young actors. They teach you their methods, and give you the sense that acting is much more tangible than most people think. I think there's a mysticism of what acting is, in the fact that it's this ungraspable, spur-of-the-moment thing that nobody can understand.

  Roberto Aguire

  Thinking, Giving, People

  "Interview: Roberto Aguire Talks Boulevard (Exclusive)". Interview with Karen Benardello, www.shockya.com. August 4, 2015.

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• The Red Cross in its nature, it aims and purposes, and consequently, its methods, is unlike any other organization in the country.It is an organization of physical action, of instantaneous action, at the spur of the moment; it cannot await the ordinary deliberation of organized bodies if it would be of use to suffering humanity,[ellipsis in original] it has by its nature a field of its own.

  Clara Barton

  Country, Organization, Humanity

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• Everything is always spur-of-the-moment. All of my tattoos I decide that second and do it.

  Avril Lavigne

  Tattoo, Spurs, Moments

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