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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.
J. Krishnamurti, Indian Philosopher
The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.
Vincent Lombardi
We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
Japanese proverb
"Set yourself up for success and anything is possible."
"It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer."
"Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion."
"Your love for yourself is only shown when you are dancing freely."
"Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays."
George Balanchine
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Mark Twain
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.
Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Life is a dance, from one stage to the next."
"When AIDS is stopped we will dance for joy. Until then we will dance for life."
"Dancers are among the most passionate and dedicated of artists and rarely take their work for granted."
"You can't see a painter or a writer or a musician if you just look at them, but you can see a dancer in a child if they've studied ballet for a year."
"The Dancer and the Dance" movie
"You can't make a pointe if you don't understand the details."
The teacher doesn't teach, not really. The teacher offers stimulation and ways in which the person can educate himself or herself. At best the teacher wakes up that person and makes a person hungry.
Dancers work and live from the inside. They drive themselves constantly producing a glow that lights not only themselves but audience after audience."
M. Louis
"When in doubt......dance!"
"Why do I dance?.....Why do I breathe?"
"A child sings before it speaks, dances almost before it walks. Music is in our hearts from the beginning."
Pamela Brown
"Tomorrow's success begins today."
"Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who you are you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the dance."
Shirley Maclaine
"You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart."
"I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words."
Ruth St. Denis
"Dance for yourself, if someone understands good. If not then no matter, go right on doing what you love."
Lois Hurst
"Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness and envy."
Jaques D'ambroise
"You know you're dancing when tears of pain and happiness blend in with your sweat"
All there is to be said for work compared to dance is that the latter is so much easier."
Heywood Brown
"Dance for life."
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