Albert Einstein
Physicist
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."
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Saint Augustine
Theologian, Philosopher
"Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."
Martha Graham
Dancer, choreographer
"There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium, and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open."
Martha Graham
Dancer, choreographer
"Our arms start from the back because they were once wings."
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"And let the winds of the heavens dance between you."
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"There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them."
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"All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing."
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"The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead."
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"Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul"
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"The body says what words cannot."
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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."
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"Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it."
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"We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams."
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"The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing."
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"If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself."
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"Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!"
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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."
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"The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything."
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"Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body."
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"Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?"
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"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance."
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"Dance training can't be separate from life training. Everything that comes into our lives is training. The qualities we admire in great dancing are the same qualities we admire in human beings: honesty, courage, fearlessness, generosity, wisdom, depth, compassion,and humanity."
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"The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can."
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"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
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