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• I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply attached a handwritten note saying, 'I make dances, not applications. Send the money. Love, Twyla.

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  Years, Pages, Firsts

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

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• 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 problem; it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.

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  Children, Creativity, Artist

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• You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.

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  Hard Work, Skills, May

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

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• Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box

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  Thinking, Conformity, Boxes

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

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• I read for growth, firmly believing that what you are today and what you will be in five years depends on two things: the people you meet and the books you read.

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  Believe, Book, Years

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

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• The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.

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  Creativity, Bad Ass, People

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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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• Failing, and learning from it, is necessary. Unil you've done it, you're missing an important piece of your creative arsenal.

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  Creative, Missing, Important

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• I cannot overstate how much a generous spirit contributes to good luck. Look at the luckiest people around you, the ones you envy, the ones who seem to have destiny falling habitually into their laps. If they're anything like the fortunate people I know, they're prepared, they're always working at their craft, they're alert, they involve their friends in their work, and they tend to make others feel lucky to be around them.

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  Fall, Good Luck, Destiny

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

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• Concentrate: you can't have it all.

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  Concentration

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• I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.

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  Happiness, Art, Laughter

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• Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won.

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  Reading, Hero, Creativity

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

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• Mastery is an elusive concept. You never know when you achieve it absolutely and it may not help you to feel you've attained it. We can recognize it more readily in others than we can in ourselves. We have to discover our own definition of it.

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  May, Definitions, Mastery

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

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• 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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  Morning, Inspiration, Creative

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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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• Don’t sign on for more problems than you must. Resist the temptation to involve yourself in other people’s zones of expertise and responsibility. Monitor troublesome situations if you need to, but don’t insert yourself unless you’re running out of time and a solution is nowhere in sight. In short, stifle your inner control freak.

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  Running, Responsibility, Sight

  Twyla Tharp (2009). “The Collaborative Habit: Life Lessons for Working Together”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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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 fail in private, the less you will fail in public.

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  Failing

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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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• Art is an investigation.

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  Art, Investigation, Art Is

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

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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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• The irony of multitasking is that it's exhausting: when you're doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy than the sum of energy required to do each task independently. You're also cheating yourself because your're not doing anything excellently. You're compromising your virtuosity. In the words of T. S. Elliot, you're 'distracted from distractions by distractions'.

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  Cheating, Two, Energy

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

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• When you're in a groove, you're not spinning your wheels; you're moving forward in a straight and narrow path without pauses or hitches. You're unwavering, undeviating, and unparalleled in your purpose. A groove is the best place in the world. Because when you are in it, you have the freedom to explore, where everything you question leads you to new avenues and new routes.

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  Moving, World, Spinning

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

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• Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

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  Optimistic, Optimism, Experience

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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 keeping everything fresh and new, while habit implies routine and repetition. That paradox intrigues me because it occupies the place where creativity and skill rub up against each other.

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  Inspirational, Creativity, Thinking

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

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