"Whether it's a painter finding his way each……" — Twyla Tharp
"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 much a part of the creative process as the lightning bolt of inspiration, maybe more."
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180 Quotes by Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp has 180 quotes on this site.
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More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't…
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell…
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The irony of multitasking is that it's exhausting: when you're doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy…
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No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection…
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The routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightening bold of inspiration, maybe more. And…
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Everything that happens in my day is a transaction between the external world and my internal world. Everything is raw…
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There's a paradox in the notion that creativity should be a habit. We think of creativity as a way of…
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Art is running away without ever leaving home.
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In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.
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It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are…
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Never worry that rote exercises aimed at developing skills will suffocate creativity. At the same time, it's important to recognize…
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More Bolt Quotes
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If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.
— Usain Bolt
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A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to…
— John Ciardi
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He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.
— Robert Redford
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The iron bolt...mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Salvation is a word for the divine spaciousness that comes to human beings in all the tight places where their…
— Barbara Brown Taylor
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You look at Vladimir Radmanovic, this guy is cut from stone. As if Michelangelo was reading and a lightening bolt…
— Bill Walton
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To crank myself up I stood on a jack and ran myself up. I tightened myself like a bolt. I…
— Annie Dillard
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My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ……
— William Carlos Williams
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There's a mystery there, a clue, a nut, a bolt, and if I put it together, I find me.
— Maurice Sendak
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A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care…
— Jim Butcher
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I don't believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue ... It seems to me that the…
— Agnes Varda
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Oh! don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt, Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown, Who wept with delight when…
— Thomas Dunn English
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