Twyla Tharp Quotes

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• Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.

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  Inspirational, Ability, Uncomfortable

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position.

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  Brain, Alive, Body

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.

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  Humor, Deep Thought, Ifs

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you. If you're generous to someone, if you do something to help him out, you are in effect making him lucky. This is important. It's like inviting yourself into a community of good fortune.

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  Opposites, Generosity, Community

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• Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.

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  Giving Up, Life Lesson, Failure

  "A Conversation With Choreographer Twyla Tharp". Interview with David Shenk, www.theatlantic.com. February 26, 2010.

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• No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.

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  Inspirational, Exercise, Reflection

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• I had always seen myself as a star; I wanted to be a galaxy.

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  Stars, Wanted, Galaxy

  Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative....the real secret of creativity is to go back and remember.

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  Art, Real, Creativity

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• Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering. Combining the two is the essence of the creative life.

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  Passion, Essence, Skills

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• Whether or not God has kissed your brow, you still have to work. Without learning and preparation, you won't know how to harness the power of that kiss.

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  Kissing, Preparation, Harness

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion

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  Erosion, Interesting, Chance

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• dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.

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  Dance, Running, Art

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• Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be apparent to the audience. But you need it at the start of the creative process to guide you and keep you going.

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  Art, Creative, Needs

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.

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  Ideas, Littles, Bigs

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.

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  Life And Love, Moving, Life Is

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• In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.....A lot of habitually creative people have preparation rituals linked to the setting in which they choose to start their day. By putting themselves into that environment, they begin their creative day.

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  Order, People, Creative

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• 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 is metaphor. Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art, if it is not art itself. Metaphor is our vocabulary for connecting what we are experiencing now with what we have experienced before. It's not only how we express what we remember , it's how we interpret it - for ourselves and others.

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  Art, Creativity, Talking

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• When I'm in the studio, when I'm warm, when I'm what people call improvising, I feel a very special connection. I feel the most right. I don't want to become too mystic about this, but things feel as though they're in the best order at that particular moment.

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  Order, People, Special

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• I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.

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  Inspirational, Air, Ideas

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• You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.

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  Discipline, Mood

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• I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.

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  Mother, Creativity, Creative

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• Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.

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  Passion, Creativity, Desire

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

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  Music, Dance, Running

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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 take into account how you or the world has changed.

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  Creativity, World, Ruts

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• The more you know, the better you can imagine.

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  Imagine, Knows

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