The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
Interpretation
Embracing change is essential, while stagnation is more frightening.
In this quote, Twyla Tharp expresses her deep-seated fear of stagnation. She suggests that the absence of change is more intimidating than the challenges that come with change itself, highlighting a belief that growth and progress are integral aspects of life and creativity. The 'business of being static' indicates a strong aversion to a lack of movement or evolution, showcasing that she thrives in dynamic environments where growth and adaptation are constant.
In practice
In a motivational speech about embracing new opportunities.
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.
What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
If the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights movement made demands that altered the course of American lives and backed up those demands with the willingness to give up your life in service of your civil rights, with Black Lives Matter, a more internalized change is being asked for: recognition.
The invisible is only another unexplored country, a brave new world.
We need transformational change of our criminal justice system - not just, you know, a handful of consent decrees or policy reforms.
Thankfully, dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses.
So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.
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