413 Quotes by Twyla Tharp

Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.

I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it!

You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.

Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you. If you're generous to someone, if you do something to help him out, you are in effect making him lucky. This is important. It's like inviting yourself into a community of good fortune.

A commission is an invitation to fall in love.

Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.

You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.

When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.

It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at peril of turning back, chickening out, giving up, or going the wrong way.