413 Quotes by Twyla Tharp

I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn’t a choice on my part, it was expected.

The real secret of creativity is to go back and remember.

It’s very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

Planning lets you impose order on the chaotic process of making something new, but when it’s taken too far you get locked into a status quo, and creative thinking is about breaking free from the status quo, even from one you made yourself.

We’re a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.

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.

Remember at all times that you’re the one who’ll be judged by the final product.

They key is to learn how to keep free-floating fears from paralyzing you before you’ve begun.

I have to feel that each thing I’ve learned I can push to another point next time. I’m not very good with repetition. I would rather not work than feel that repetition is the order of the day.