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• Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

  Plato

  Art, Mean, Dancing

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• I've relaxed my feelings about other companies performing my works. I have never in principle been against my ballets being danced by other companies. Rather, it is that we lack the time, space and money to insure that they are done well. To me, the only sin is mediocrity.

  Martha Graham

  Mediocrity, Sin

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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• Dancing almost always turns out to be a good idea.

  Anne Lamott

  Ideas, Dancing, Turns

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.35, Penguin

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• Write all the time. I believe in writing every day, at least a thousand words a day. We have a strange idea about writing: that it can be done, and done well, without a great deal of effort. Dancers practice every day, musicians practice every day, even when they are at the peak of their careers – especially then. Somehow, we don’t take writing as seriously. But writing – writing wonderfully – takes just as much dedication.

  Theodora Goss

  Believe, Writing, Creativity

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• Technique-bodily control-must be mastered only because the body must not stand in the way of the soul's expression.

  La Meri

  Inspirational, Expression, Dancing

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• A body in movement is its philosophy.

  Nelly Mazloum

  Philosophy, Movement, Body

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• A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

  Agnes de Mille

  Ballet, Calves, Good Education

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• Lose yourself in the music, the moment - you own it.

  Eminem

  Moments, Losing Yourself, Loses

  Song: Lose Yourself

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• We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate and feral embrace of wildness and life that aims at dancing on the ruins of clocks, computers and that failure of imagination and will called work. Can we justify our lives by anything less than such a politics of rage and dreams?

  John Zerzan

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  John Zerzan (2012). “Future Primitive Revisited”, p.96, Feral House

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• Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths.

  Martha Graham

  Sleep, Frustration, Dancing

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.

  Plato

  Art, Dancing, Soul

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• A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Long, Mad, Length

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• The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Success, Inspirational Sports

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Nov 17, 2014

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• Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.

  Christopher Pike

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

  Martha Graham

  Believe, Learning, Athlete

  "The Routledge Dance Studies Reader". Book by Alexandra Carter and Janet O'Shea, p. 96, 1998.

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• One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Depression, Courage, Stars

  Thus Spake Zarathustra prologue, sec. 5 (1883) (translation byWalter Kaufmann)

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• The body is a reservoir of all sorts of tensions and dark forces. And it's also the potential source of amazing energy. This thing wants to live. It is a powerful engine. The brain (is) a reservoir of images, dreams, fears, associations, language. And its potential we can't even begin to understand. Movement begins to negotiate the distance between the brain and the body and it can be surprising what we learn about each other.

  Bill T. Jones

  Dream, Powerful, Distance

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• What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

  William Blake

  Wisdom, Song, Children

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.337, Pearson Education

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• Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

  Alexander Pope

  Wisdom, Time, Men

  'Imitations of Horace' Horace bk. 1, Epistle 1 (1738) l. 53

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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, Sports, Volleyball

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

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• Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.

  Twyla Tharp

  Dancing, Splits, Timing

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• If I can not dance, I shall die!

  Anna Pavlova

  Dancing, Can Not, Dies

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• Dance every performance as if it were your last.

  Erik Bruhn

  Dancing, Lasts, Directors

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• Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Art, Dancing, Soul

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• Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.

  Alexander Pope

  Music, Light, Broken

  Alexander Pope (1797). “Moral essays”, p.292

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