You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that." If you do, then why are you in the studio in the first place?
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of a positive mindset and the willingness to challenge oneself in a learning environment.
Judith Jamison's quote encourages individuals to adopt an open and determined attitude when entering situations where they may face challenges or new skills to learn. By questioning the purpose of being in such an environment if one is not prepared to try, she highlights the importance of embracing growth and the opportunity to learn, rather than succumbing to self-doubt.
In practice
In a motivational speech for students about embracing challenges.
As a dancer, you really try to stay true to whatever the choreographer/artistic director is giving you. So, now the shoe is on the other foot and I have to trust everyone else - I have to trust the dancer. As I was trusted as a dancer, I trust my dancers.
It's never too early to teach your children about the tool of money. Teach them how to work for it and they learn pride and self-respect. Teach them how to save it and they learn security and self-worth. Teach them how to be generous with it and they learn love.
We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?
I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise and fall.
You wake up white, and you think about certain things every day. You wake up black, and you think about certain things. You wake up Chinese, and you think certain things - but those things aren't major. What's major is that you are good at your craft.
Maybe it's a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.
I think today will be the day. Today our luck will change,' I proclaimed on the wings of the first coffee of the day, pure optimism in a liquid state.
You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.
We represent a hustler. I think we represent inspiration. I think we represent, you know, staying down. I think we represent building yourself up from the bootstraps.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment - independent will - that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
Follow your path, and let the people talk.
He tries to show each person how much they are capable of achieving.
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