"We're trying to stretch our muscles creatively. It gives us so much more freedom."

-- Mikhail Baryshnikov

#Dance Quotes #Giving Quotes #Trying Quotes

“You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.”
“I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance between the work imagined and the work achieved wherein it is to be found that the ceaseless labor is the freedom of play, that whatâ€™s at stake isnâ€™t a reflection in the mirror of fame but the escape from the prison of the self.”
“It is a blessing. When I first got wind of [Chris Rivers] taking the rap thing serious and wanting to make a career out of it.”
“Who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers. But I cannot say who will be the militia of the future day. If that paper on the table [the Constitution] gets no alteration, the militia of the future day may not consist of all classes, high and low, and rich and poor. ...”
“Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.”
“Put a 'stop-loss' order on your worries. Decide just how much anxiety a thing may be worth- and refuse to give it any more.”
“He who would prove all life, leaves it empty. To know the way of everything is to be left with the geometry of things and with the substance of nothing. To reduce the world to an equation is to leave it without head or feet.”
“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 14, 2013

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