I've always felt compelled to explore range, because, as far as I know, we're only here once. So let's see how much we can encompass.
Interpretation
This quote encourages exploration and embracing a wide range of experiences in life.
Twyla Tharp expresses the idea that life is a unique and singular journey, prompting individuals to pursue a variety of experiences and knowledge. By urging us to explore the range of possibilities, Tharp inspires a mindset of curiosity and adventure, reinforcing the notion that we should strive to fully embrace our time on Earth and make the most of it.
In practice
In a speech about personal growth, one might quote Tharp to encourage others to seek diverse experiences.
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.
A rejoicing heart soon makes a praising tongue.
I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find.
Hold high the brow serene,_x000D_ O youth, where now you stand;_x000D_ Let the bright sheen_x000D_ Of your grace be seen,_x000D_ Fair hope of my fatherland!
Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.
One day very soon, we'll be asked: what did we do. And we will say: we did everything we could... we have to... because if we don't there won't be anyone left to ask. We have never faced a crisis this big, that we have never had better ideas to solve. This is our only home. We can choose today to make a world of difference.
We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
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