Dance Quotes - Page 10

I explained it when I danced it.

My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered.

I never taught people where to step on '2', because when I learned how to dance there was no '2'. We just danced to the music.

What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.

(Farm workers) are involved in the planting and the cultivation and the harvesting of the greatest abundance of food known in this society. They bring in so much food to feed you and me and the whole country and enough food to export to other places. The ironic thing and the tragic thing is that after they make this tremendous contribution, they don't have any money or any food left for themselves.

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance. This heartbeat is louder than death.

Even the ears must dance.

Dancers work and live from the inside. They drive themselves constantly producing a glow that lights not only themselves but audience after audience.

Going on stage and transcending the audience and becoming this otherworldly thing makes you a dancer. It's not so black and white.

In my family, there was not an abundance of wealth, but there was an abundance of love. So there was always humor, and there was joy and there was comfort and there was this environment just to have a good time.

When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.

Every day I go out and climb, like a dancer who works on his dance. He probably has some goals, some pieces he would like to perform, but his main goal is to work on his dance. This is how he expresses himself. Both he and I are interested in the same thing. It’s the dance that counts.

You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts.

Don't be afraid to be amazing.

Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror.

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.

I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.

We must be convinced that abundance is the natural state of the Universe. To experience and accept abundance in our life, we must be convinced that as we conceive and believe, the Universe handles the details.

Swan Lake is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.

On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.

I was a ballerina. I had to quit after I injured a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

I just put my feet in the ground and move them around.