100 Winging It Quotes

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Famous Winging It Quotes

I'm flying by the seat of my pants, never creating with a thought to what's up ahead! — Akira Toriyama

In my live show, it will feel like I'm making up everything as I go, and a lot of it I do. I riff with the audience and see what happens. — James Murray

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through. - Peter Straub

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through. — Peter Straub

When you don't know what you're doing, fake it. - Jill Shalvis

When you don't know what you're doing, fake it. — Jill Shalvis

Improvisation is the art of being completely O.K. with not knowing what the f— you’re doing — Mick Napier

Throw caution to the wind and just do it. — Carrie Underwood

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down. - Ray Bradbury

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down. — Ray Bradbury

You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing. - Paul Stanley

You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing. — Paul Stanley

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well. — Isaac Asimov

Life is about not knowing and then doing something anyway. — Mark Manson

Improvisation is terribly haphazard. — Leo Ornstein

I don't think it's something you can be prepared for. I'm just going with the flow. — Dakota Johnson

There Are No Adults. Everyone’s making it up as they go along. Figure it out yourself, and do it. — Naval Ravikant

When you don't know what you're doing, it's best to do it quickly. — Jase Robertson

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. - Douglas Adams

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. — Douglas Adams

Short Winging It Quotes

  • This is how memories are made... by going with the flow. — Amanda Bynes
  • When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration. — Robert Bresson
  • I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned. — Michael Bay
  • She took a leap of faith and grew her wings on the way down. — David Brinkley
  • There's always some room for improvisation. — Satyajit Ray
  • When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration. — Robert Bresson
  • I don't know what I'm doing and it's the not knowing that makes it interesting. — Philip Glass
  • Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall. — Ray Bradbury
  • Preparation can only take you so far , after that you've got to take a few leaps of faith — Michael Scofield
  • Improvisation is too good to leave to chance. — Paul Simon

Top 10 Winging It Quotes

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. Improve the World Through Music. — Plato

The dance is strong magic. The body can fly without wings. It can sing without voice. The dance is strong magic. The dance is life. — Pearl Primus

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination. — Carlos Santana

Love without friendship is like a kite, aloft only when the winds are favorable. Friendship is what gives love its wings. — Sherry Thomas

The truth is, 'Charlie Hebdo' is not a racist magazine. Rather, it is a campaigning anti-racist left-wing magazine. — Maajid Nawaz

I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far. — Billy Connolly

They say time flies, but you keep breaking it’s wings. - Tablo

They say time flies, but you keep breaking it’s wings. — Tablo

Do not blame God for having created the tiger, but thank him for not having given it wings. — Indian Proverbs

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise. — William Blake

Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me. - Woody Guthrie

Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me. — Woody Guthrie

Winging It Image Quotes

Winging it quote What good are wings withou the courage to fly.
What good are wings withou the courage to fly.

Just Winging It Quotes

Let's just say I'm like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it's time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing - one that couldn't fly away.' — Jimmy Page

It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic Texan who refused Kyoto, the poll-cheat eel who undermined democracy on the back of something called 'chads,' a notion we've never entirely grasped. — Graham Joyce

If you want to make a mythical creature, just take a regular animal and add wings to it. A horse becomes a pegasus, a lion becomes a griffin, and a hawk... becomes a double hawk. — Demetri Martin

Winging it quote In the midst of change we often discover wings we never knew we had.
In the midst of change we often discover wings we never knew we had.

I don’t really have a process. I’m very much an in-the-moment actress. I suppose I just kind of wing it because I feel that as long as I know my character, I should be able to be spontaneous on set. — Sophie Turner

Red Bull doesn't give you wings, it just makes ya sick. — Niall Horan

By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you? — Danica McKellar

Winging it quote Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay.
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay.

There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them. — Arthur C. Clarke

That's how it is sometimes--God comes to your window, all bright light and black wings, and you're just too tired to open it. — Dorianne Laux

There are no grown-ups....Everyone is winging it, some just do it more confidently. — Pamela Druckerman

One thought spectra are marvellous, but it is not possible to make progress there. Just as if you have the wing of a butterfly then certainly it is very regular with the colors and so on, but nobody thought one could get the basis of biology from the coloring of the wing of a butterfly. — Niels Bohr

Winging Life Quotes

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. — Dalai Lama

Listen to the long stillness: New life is stirring New dreams are on the wing New hopes are being readied: Humankind is fashioning a new heart Humankind is forging a new mind God is at work. This is the season of Promise — Howard Thurman

I am a butterfly drunk with life. I don't know where to soar, but I won't allow life to clip my beautiful wings. — Janusz Korczak

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life? - Rumi

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life? — Rumi

May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks. - J. R. R. Tolkien

May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks. — J. R. R. Tolkien

I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world. - Sadako Sasaki

I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world. — Sadako Sasaki

Winging it quote Friends are angels who lift our feet when our own wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Friends are angels who lift our feet when our own wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

When the stormy winds of life threaten to knock you down, may you have the courage to spread your wings and fly! — Lance Wubbels

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings. - Michael Jackson

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings. — Michael Jackson

To go beyond samsara and nirvana, we will need the two wings of emptiness and compassion. From now on, let us use these two wings to fly fearlessly into the sky of the life to come. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary. — Robert Burns

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More Winging It Quotes

I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color, but I’ve seen flowers bloom at midnight. I’ve seen kites fly in gray skies and they were real close to looking like the sunrise, and sometime it takes the most wounded wings the most broken things to notice how strong the breeze is, how precious the flight. — Andrea Gibson

I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,- When he beats his bars and would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core, But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings- I know why the caged bird sings! — Paul Laurence Dunbar

The heart, in its journey to Allah, Majestic is He, is like that of a bird; Love is its head, and fear and hope are its two wings. When the head and two wings are sound, the bird flies gracefully; if the head is severed, the bird dies; if the bird loses one of its wings, it then becomes a target for every hunter or predator. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself. — Virginia Woolf

Is it conceivable that a newly emancipated people can soar to the heights of liberty, and, unlike Icarus, neither have its wings melt nor fall into an abyss? Such a marvel is inconceivable and without precedent. There is no reasonable probability to bolster our hopes. — Simon Bolivar

Some people never find the right kind of love. You know, the kind that steals your breath away, like diving into snowmelt. The kind that jolts your heart, sets it beating apace, an anxious hiccuping of hummingbird wings — Ellen Hopkins

I started on Vine because it was such an engaging platform that was the most popular at the time. It came natural to me, and I understood the type of content I needed to make on it so that people could enjoy it. I knew it was a great start, but I had to spread my wings and create something that would last forever - a career. — Jake Paul

On a weekday morning that normally would have been spent chained to a desk, I mounted my bike for the first time in months and began pedaling toward the Santa Monica Mountains. Soon I was ascending Topanga Canyon, and as the sun rose into the clear blue skies above the ridgeline, I spotted a hawk. In a perfect symbiosis of air and wing, the majestic bird sailed its perfect arc across the morning sky. And that's when I understood. If I could summon the courage to pursue my passion with purpose and without fear, I, too, could experience such synchronicity. Somehow, everything would work out. — Rich Roll

I'd written a lot of songs with hummingbirds in them. None of them ever came to anything, but I did write a few lines last month. It went like this: 'Listen to the hummingbird whose wings you cannot see. Listen to the hummingbird, don't listen to me'. — Leonard Cohen

OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly. — Ambrose Bierce

The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow , and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined. An icy sweetness fills my mind , A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living , coiled, the spring . — Jacob Bronowski

On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly — Claude Debussy

Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free. — Harry Browne

A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone. — Mandy Hale

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. — Victor Hugo

When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another. — Edward Norton Lorenz

The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I thought I was growing wings— it was a cocoon. I thought, now is the time to step into the fire— it was deep water. Eschatology is a word I learned as a child: the study of Last Things; facing my mirror—no longer young, the news—always of death, the dogs—rising from sleep and clamoring and howling, howling.... ("Seeing For a Moment") — Denise Levertov

How heron comes It is a negligence of the mind not to notice how at dusk heron comes to the pond and stands there in his death robes, perfect servant of the system, hungry, his eyes full of attention, his wings pure light — Mary Oliver

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves? — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China. — Anna Louise Strong

Which of the two powers, Love or Music, can elevate man to the sublimest heights? ... It is a problem, and yet it seems to me that this is the answer: 'Love can give no idea of music; music can give an idea of love.' ... Why separate them? They are two wings of the soul. — Hector Berlioz

Free speech is not some right-wing reframing of whatever; it is the foundation of Western civilization. — Konstantin Kisin

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect. — Jose Marti

Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky. — Rabindranath Tagore

Get rid at the outset of the idea that the airplane is only an air-going sort of automobile. It isn't. It may sound like one and smell like one, and it may have been interior decorated to look like one; but the difference is - it goes on wings. — Wolfgang Langewiesche

Friendship is an obstetric art; it draws out our richest and deepest resources; it unfolds the wings of our dreams and hidden indeterminate thoughts; it serves as a check on our judgements, tries out our new ideas, keeps up our ardor, and inflames our enthusiasm. — Antonin Sertillanges

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles. — Pat Paulsen

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears. — Chief Seattle

Hope is to our spirits what oxygen is to our lungs. Lose hope and you die. They may not bury you for awhile, but without hope you are dead inside. The only way to face the future is to fly straight into it on the wings of hope....hope is the energy of the soul. Hope is the power of tomorrow. — Lewis B. Smedes

The Eagle does not escape the storm. The Eagle simply uses the storm to lift it higher. It spreads its mighty wings and rises on the winds that bring the storm. — Jack White

God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man. It is not like teaching a horse to jump better and better but like turning a horse into a winged creature. — C. S. Lewis

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account? — Jean Paul

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