inspirational Quotes
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The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion.
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Today's patience can transform yesterday's discouragements into tomorrow's discoveries. Today's purposes can turn yesterday's defeats into tomorrow's determination.
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Believe that there is a purpose in your pain.
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I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.
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I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.
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During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball.
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If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.
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Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your best season.
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Know and believe in yourself and what others think won't disturb you.
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You get whatever you expect to get. The only question is. What do you want?
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You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.
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I went to the brink many times. A couple of times I thought "I'm gone, This is it." But then you would just keep working. I think if you're close to the brink and just make sure that you work twice as hard and put twice as much effort into everything and the people around you and everything, you should come through.
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In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.
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The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about.
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Any idiot can train himself into the ground; the trick is working in training to get gradually stronger.
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Dance every performance as if it were your last.
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If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
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An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.
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I keep going because if you stop, you stop. Why retire? Inspire.
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When all within is peace How nature seems to smile Delights that never cease The live-long day beguile
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The funniest thing is that all the things every director goes through, I thought I could shortcut, but there was no getting around those issues.
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Windows 95 is what Rube Goldberg would have designed if he'd studied cartooning at M.I.T.
