“I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.” ~Maya Angelou
“Why should the world be only as you think it is? Who gave you the authority to say so?” ~Don Juan
“An artist cannot fail;it is a success to be one.” ~Charles Horton Cooley
“Life and choreography are about the lines you draw on the canvas. . .so put away the eraser, what you draw is always right.” ~Nia Love
“The difference between success and failure in dance is not measured by your ability; instead it is measured by your willinginess to keep up the fight. Once you stop fighting for it, you are done.” ~Onye Ozuzu
“Sometimes you just have to take the leap and build your wings on the way down.” ~Kobi Yamada
“If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.” ~Lou Whitaker
“In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.” ~Sheldon Kopp
“No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.” ~Alan Watts
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Great Dance Quotes ( from my current professors )
Thoughts on Alessandra Ferri:
“Bitch took THREE STEPS- ONE, TWO, THREE- and threw herself on Julio Bocca.”
-Gabe
‘ This is a squate, not a plie.’
‘ This is a fart, not a curve. ‘
‘This is John Travolta. This is a stretch. Yes exactly right’.
“Sunshine coming through!”
-Gabe
” Ha Gravity, I spit on you.”
“Turns are easy. I love turns. I’m not a good turner but I tell myself I am”
” Isn’t it great that we can just dance?”
“We’re not sacrificing any virgins here, we’re just dancing.”
-Erika
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“Art doesn’t immitate life. Art anticipates life.”
-Jeanette Winterson
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“Life is too beautiful to quit”
“The worst feeling in the world is wanting someone, but knowing you can’t have them.”
“Some days you’re the bug, some days you’re the windshield”
“A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn’t like the tune”
“Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you’re scared to death”
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it”
“Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have”
“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength”
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“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm” -Emerson
“What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what’s going on.” -Jacques Yves Cousteau
“The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.” -Ray Bradbury
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” -Albert Einstein
The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
Lewis Thomas
“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.” -Marie Curie
“Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.” -Anton Chekhov
“To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.” -Heather Cortez
“Be the Change you wish to see in the World” -Gandhi
“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.” -Diogenes Laertius
“To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. “-Edison
“I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”-Martha Washington
“Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Accordingly a genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.”-Edison
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” -Edison
“Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” Mahatma Gandhi
“I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, only more love.” -Mother Teresa
“The earth was not given to us by our parents. It was loaned to us by our children.”
“Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved. ” -Jane Goodall
“Love is patient, Love is kind, It does not envy, it does not boast, It is not proud, It is not rude, It is not self-seeking, It is not easily angered, It keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things”
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“Say what you want and do what you feel, because the ones that matter don’t mind, and the ones that mind don’t matter.” Dr. Seuss
“The greatest Americans have not been born yet,
they are waiting patiently for the past to die.” -Saul Williams
“As I give you my hand, I give you my heart…” -My wedding vows 
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” -Gandhi
“No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time. ” -Martha Graham
“Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours.” Swedish proverb
“If you want to be understood… listen.” -Babel
“Our arms start in the back, because they were once wings.” -Martha Graham
“I am so glad I am not a dancer anymore… it’s a dog’s life.” -Madonna
“The painted nature of this earth is water-based and will fade if not tended.” -Saul Williams
