Dancing is dreaming with your feet" - unknown
Dance is the mother of all arts" - unknown
Dance to express, not to impress - unknown
No one can arrive from being talented alone, God gives talent, work transgresses talent. - unknown
Nothing would be done at all if we waited until we could do it so well that none could find fault with it. - Cardinal Newman
"Its better to be hated for who you are than loved for who you are not" - anonymous
Dancing is the world's favorite metaphor. ~ Kristy Nilsson
Dance - no translation needed. ~ Kristy Nilsson
"If you can't be a good example -- then you'll just have to be a horrible warning'. - unknown
"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life" - Sophia Loren
Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the
term. Yet as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of
crafting their own life: in a sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a
masterpiece". - Pope John Paul II
"Remember that dance has a dimension beyond the physical. The
body-as imperfect as it always is-is only part of the picture. Your
energy, the quality of your movement, your feeling about the world, your dance
spirit-that is what we see under the lights" - Dance Magazine 3/05
"You know when you are an artist when you evoke an emotional response - whether its love or hate. It's when you evoke no response that you have to worry" - Bobby Ibrahim Farrar
"I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him" - Booker T. Washingon
"The most destructive force in the universe is gossip" - unknown
"Never be afraid to try anything new. Remember that a lone person built the Ark, but a group of professionals built the Titanic" - unknown
"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it." - Jonathan Winters
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent" - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong." - Leo Buscaglia
"No feedback from friends can keep us blind, but bad tongues are deadly." - Sobonfu E. Some
I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead. - Jimmy Buffet
"There ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish something!" - Thomas Edison
"A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace." - Tennessee Williams
"Criticism comes easier than creativity" - Zeuxis, 400 B.C.
"Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe." - Sumner Redstone
"When it comes to the requirements for pleasing an audience, all the knowledge and instruction and apparatus in the world is worth less than one ounce of soul." - Ottawa Keyes
"Long experience has taught me that the crux of my fortunes is whether I can radiate good will toward my audience. There is only one way to do it and that is to feel it. You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts." - Howard Thurston
"I don't know the key to success - but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." - Bill Cosby
"The only reason for mastering technique is to make sure the body does not prevent the soul from expressing itself." - La Meri
"Dance from your heart and love your music, and the audience will love you in return" - Maria
"All great stars are competitive. That's a sign of a true artist-if you don't have the fire of competition deep down inside, you're never going to achieve anything. You have to want to be king of the heap" - Camille Paglia
"Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances." - Maya Angelou
"Talent is very dangerous - it alienates people" - Elaine Stritch
"There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower" - anonymous
"Some men see things as they are & ask why - I dream things that never were and say why not? - George Bernard Shaw
"Envy is the sincerest form of flattery" - anonymous
"He who flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most - Thomas Fuller
"Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music." George Carlin
"Success will win you false friends and true enemies - succeed anyway." - Mother Teresa
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless" - Mother Teresa
"Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing." - Friederich Nietzsche
"You haven't got anything to dance about until you're over thirty-five anyway." -Bert Balladine
"To dance is to give oneself up to the rhythms of all life" - Dr. Maya V. Patel
"From what we get we can make a living, what we give, however, makes a life - Arthur Ashe
"It is never too late to be what you might have been" - George Elliot
"Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great, make you feel that you too can become great." ~ Mark Twain
"We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance." ~ Japanese Proverb
"Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation." - Martha Graham s
Love like you've never been hurt, work like you don't need the money and dance like no one is watching - unknown, submitted by Selayma
To dance is to share - to share is to teach - Selayma
Thank God that you are able to dance...Remember there are those who cannot
even walk.
.....author unknown
"There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked
people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect
you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those
with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage
those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you
depression, despair and disrespect." ~ Nikki Giovanni
"I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes." - Kahlil Gibran
"I can only believe in a God who dances"-Nietzsche"
"Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow" - Oscar Wilde
"Dance is so important in the world. It needs no language. Our bodies speak a language of its own.", - Ibrahim Farrah
"This point of being a mature artist (is) where realism replaces fantasy, where hopes never diminish, where the love of art is more passionate than ever. And yet that which we love has brought us a lot of suffering, because the life of an artist is often uncompromising at times. It’s brought us a lot of pain, a lot of angst. And yet no matter what it’s brought, the love of your craft will overpower it all. (Because when) you see life, you see dance. You see feeling. We change the meaning of the words of our vocabulary with age." - Ibriham Farrah
"If God has given you a talent, it is a sin to waste it." - Sister Francis Therese, St. Benedict Joseph Labre Catholic School, Queens, New York
"Tell me and I will surely forget.
Show me and I might remember.
But make me do it, and I will certainly understand." - An old Chinese proverb
"When I give, I give myself" - Walt Whitman
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." - William James
"Don't dream it, BE it!" - Tim Curry
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway. - Eleanor Roosevelt (sent in by Anisa)
"No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times." - Martha Graham
"Four things come not back. The spoken word,
the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity." - Arabian
proverb submitted by Anisa
"Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others" - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (submitted by Anisa)
"Safety pins are a bellydancers best friend" - anonymous
"You can observe alot by watching" Yogi Berra
"Turkish Dancers strut, Egyptian Dancers glide" Elizabeth Artemis Mourat
"Dance is the hidden language of the soul" Martha Graham
"The audiences ears hear the music, and their eyes see you being that music.Dance is the music made visible. You ARE the music!" Morocco
"Dance is like life, it exists as your flitting through it, and when it's over, it's done" Jerome Robbins
"Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before" Mae West
"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and becuase there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost" Martha Graham
"Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." Erica Jong
"Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage" Claude M. Bristol
"Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe" Claudia Black
"Do not fear mistakes - there are none." Miles Davis
"Bellydancing is more fun and less expensive than a psychiatrist. It takes you to a natural high." Cindy, (Jewels of the Nile, Fort Collins, CO)
"There are two ways to live your life: One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle" Albert Einstein
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong" Joseph Chilton Pierce
"We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic" Susan Jeffers
"Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent" C. G. Jung
"Trust that still, small voice that says, "This might work and I'll try it" Diane Mariechild
"Surround yourself with people who respect you and treat you well" Claudia Black
"Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown" Claude Bernard
"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." Somerset Maugham
"A painting is never finished, it simply stops in interesting places" Paul Gardner
"Listening is a form of accepting" Stella Terrill Mann
"We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way." John Holt, educator
"Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase
our good deeds." Buddha
"I intend to work for this dance of the future.
I do not know whether I have the necessary qualities; I may have neither genius
nor talent nor temperament. But I know that I have a Will; and will and
energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
Isadora Duncan
"I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By a gradual process...I had invested every bit of my dreams, my hopes, my energies in defining myself as a dancer" Twyla Tharpe
"To me, this acquirement of nervous, physical, and emotional concentration is the one element possessed to the highest degree by the truly great dancers of the world. Its acquirement is the result of discipline, of energy in the deep sense. That is why there are so few great dancers." Martha Graham
"One's concentration as a performer must...remain centered on the action of which one is a part. For it is in truth only one's own concentration on the imagined reality of the role that can force the audience's attention to that same place" - Rick
"I began to discriminate between fear and excitement. The two, though very close, are completely different. Fear is negative excitement, choking your imagination. Real excitement produces an energy that overcomes apprehension and makes you want to close in on your goal." - Twyla Tharpe