Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.
Interpretation
Taking action is more valuable than inaction, as even mistakes lead to improvement.
This quote emphasizes the importance of action over inaction. Twyla Tharp points out that engaging in an activity, even if done poorly, provides valuable lessons that can lead to mastery and improvement in the future. It encourages a proactive approach to life, suggesting that the experience gained from doing is essential for personal growth and development.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing your dreams.
Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how they move best and how they look best is going to be most familiar to them, and not necessarily to me.
I am still pushing the edge of what my body can do.
No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.
Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering. Combining the two is the essence of the creative life.
I grew up in a drive-in theater, from the time I was 8, working in a snack bar watching four features every week. It was silent theater in the sense that this was a drive-in, which meant that I often saw the films going with no sound. But I learned to tell stories through action.
Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.
If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.
Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at time. That's the only way it happens-and when it happens, it lasts.
In order to build our nation, we must all exceed our own expectations.
Once the call of God comes to you, start going and never stop.
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