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The tension lies in the recognition that knowing how to achieve one's goals can indeed stifle the very essence of living, as it breeds comfort and stagnation.\n\n**How to Use This**\nTo apply this mindset today, modern professionals and creatives would do well to cultivate a sense of deliberate uncertainty, allowing themselves to remain open to new experiences and challenges. By embracing the unknown and avoiding premature certainty, individuals can foster a more dynamic and innovative approach to their work, staying true to the essence of Agnes de Mille's sentiment.",{"id":28,"quote_text":29,"author_id":5,"source_id":30,"has_image":22,"author":31,"source":32,"quote_tag":33,"commentary":9},2826527,"The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.",6,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":35,"quote_text":36,"author_id":5,"source_id":30,"has_image":22,"author":37,"source":38,"quote_tag":39,"commentary":9},2826526,"Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":41,"quote_text":42,"author_id":5,"source_id":30,"has_image":22,"author":43,"source":44,"quote_tag":45,"commentary":9},2826521,"Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. 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