413 Quotes by Twyla Tharp

The routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightening bold of inspiration, maybe more. And this routine is available to everyone.

Energy and time are finite resources; conserving them is very important.

Walt Disney was a master of the human psychology. His sense of timing, sense of speed. In a sense, those cartoons are like Rorschach tests.

The irony of multitasking is that it's exhausting: when you're doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy than the sum of energy required to do each task independently. You're also cheating yourself because your're not doing anything excellently. You're compromising your virtuosity. In the words of T. S. Elliot, you're 'distracted from distractions by distractions'.

Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.

There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.

Creativity requires quite a lot of faith - not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right to proceed, even when you may not know exactly what you're doing.

Milos Forman is a great director, Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.

I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.