"Dance is about never-ending aspiration."

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Source : Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

Judith Jamison

#Dance Quotes #Aspiration Quotes

“My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. He hoped I would see my way to more serious work and would find myself turning towards medicine, law, or business.”
“A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.”

Source : Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”
“I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.”
“Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.”
“The life you want doesn't exist. You have to make it up.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 16, 2012
“Then the necessary decline of non-voluntary learning and rise of the self-assured will which perfects itself in the glorious sunlight of the free person may be somewhat expressed as follows: knowledge must die and rise again as will and create itself anew each day as a free person.”
“Over 80% of the media can't stand Donald Trump in the US. I've never seen a more biased media in my entire life, except Rob Ford. But outside of that I have not seen a more biased media.”

Source : Source: www.citynews.ca
“St John of the Cross told us that if a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark. I interpret that as a direction for us to trust in the guidance we receive from our invisible self.”

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