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  It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Dance, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.52, St. Martin's Press

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• Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit.

  Judith Jamison

  Inspirational, Dance, Dancing

  Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

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• When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. And then one day, you just learn to dance, and it is so different.

  Bill Austin

  Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

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• When you dance with a partner you are close and the dance is very suggestive, but it is not personal … “Close is what the music inspire you to become. The embrace looks personal, but what we are actually embracing is the music.

  Carlos Gavito

  Inspire, Looks, Embrace

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  Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Music, Dance

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• We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Music, Dance, Dancing

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.198, Penguin

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• I grew up as a dancer, and music and dance are so closely tied, that in ballet class you're listening to all this classical music, and in modern class you're working with a live drummer. It was something that always made me feel really comfortable and I've had a connection to since the beginning.

  Jillian Hervey

  Ballet Class, Dancer, Listening

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time.

  Ginger Rogers

  Inspirational, Dance, Men

  Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”

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  Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Life, Music

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.

  Samuel Beckett

  Life, Dance, Thinking

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• I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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• The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

  Mata Hari

  Love, Dance, Art

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• There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Music, Dance

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 13, 1595.

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• What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Success, Dance, Life And Love

  Samuel Johnson (1831). “The Lives of the English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works and Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons”, p.47

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• The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Dance, Sports

  Vince Lombardi (2001). “What It Takes To Be Number #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.18, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Ballet Class, Play

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• Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life.

  Robert Breault

  Dance, Moving, Dancing

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• Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.

  Anna Pavlova

  Dance, Dancing, Ballet

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• I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.

  George Balanchine

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dance

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

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• Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

  Havelock Ellis

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  The Dance of Life ch. 2 (1923)

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• When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Life, Strength, Sad

  Song: I Hope You Dance, Album: I Hope You Dance

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• Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

  Jane Austen

  Dance, Believe, Dancing

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.929, Wordsworth Editions

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• Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Life, Dance, Dancing

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.79, Penguin

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• Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

  John Dryden

  Dance, Ballet Class, Feet

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.1562, Delphi Classics

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• I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Inspiring, Dance, Sports

  "Dance Like There’s Nobody Watching" by Siobhan Kukolic, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 19, 2016.

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