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Way Quotes by Twyla Tharp
- There's a paradox in the notion that creativity should be a habit. We think of creativity as a way of keeping everything fresh and new,…
- It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at peril of turning…
- When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position.
- Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.
- Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a…
- Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.
- Whether it's a painter finding his way each morning to the easel, or a medical researcher returning daily to the laboratory, the routine is as…
- Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
- I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.
- To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but also in some…
- When creativity has become your habit; when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand the value and…
- Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
- Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. What we're talking about here…
- I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By…
- We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.
- The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.
- When I say I can see through clothes, sometimes I try to use it as an X-ray vision to look into the dancer and see…
- The only way to know the truth of a movement is to do it on your own body.
- Let me put it this way: I would like to direct a successful film. An unsuccessful film I would not like to direct. Films are…
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