Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.
Interpretation
Taking action is more valuable than inaction, as even mistakes lead to improvement.
This quote emphasizes the importance of action over inaction. Twyla Tharp points out that engaging in an activity, even if done poorly, provides valuable lessons that can lead to mastery and improvement in the future. It encourages a proactive approach to life, suggesting that the experience gained from doing is essential for personal growth and development.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing your dreams.
Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how they move best and how they look best is going to be most familiar to them, and not necessarily to me.
I am still pushing the edge of what my body can do.
No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.
Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering. Combining the two is the essence of the creative life.
I grew up in a drive-in theater, from the time I was 8, working in a snack bar watching four features every week. It was silent theater in the sense that this was a drive-in, which meant that I often saw the films going with no sound. But I learned to tell stories through action.
Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
The obvious goals were there- State Champion, NCAA Champion, Olympic Champion. To get there I had to set an everyday goal which was to push myself to exhaustion or, in other words, to work so hard in practice that someone would have to carry me off the mat.
Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.
Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.
There are always new, grander challenges to confront, and a true winner will embrace each one.
Dream, Dream Dream Dreams transform into thoughts And thoughts result in action.
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