I believe that we learn by practice… it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit.
MARTHA GRAHAMWhat people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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Discipline is liberation.
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Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
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When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it’s the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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We are all of us, unique – each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover – the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
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