Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Twyla Tharp
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
World
Consequence
Method
Tried
Ruts
Creativity
Sticking
Changed
Tested
Often
Methods
Found
Account
Take
Accounts
More quotes by Twyla Tharp
I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
Twyla Tharp
The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity.
Twyla Tharp
By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.
Twyla Tharp
In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
Twyla Tharp
I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
Twyla Tharp
Miloš Forman is a great director Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.
Twyla Tharp
Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.
Twyla Tharp
You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.
Twyla Tharp
I began ear training when I was about six months old. My mother was a concert pianist, and she started all of her children with music before they were a year old. Then she began to see that I had a musical gift...
Twyla Tharp
My greatest fear in working is always the end. Lately I have taken to tricking myself into finishing by leaving a hole in the middle somewhere, then stitching the two pieces together - the Union Pacific approach.
Twyla Tharp
There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
Twyla Tharp
Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
Twyla Tharp
The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.
Twyla Tharp
I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.
Twyla Tharp
With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.
Twyla Tharp
I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
Twyla Tharp
The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
Twyla Tharp
You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.
Twyla Tharp
Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
Twyla Tharp
The more you know, the better you can imagine.
Twyla Tharp
