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.
Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.
If I had to give you one piece of advice, it would be this: don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do. Seek out people who aren’t afraid of making mistakes and who, therefore, do make mistakes. Because of that, their work often isn’t recognized, but they are precisely the kind of people who change the world and, after many mistakes, do something that will transform their own community completely.
We are responsible for everything that happens in this world. We are warriors of light, and with the strength of our love and of our will we can change our destiny and that of many other people.
Stand up, be bold, be strong._x000D_ _x000D_ Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders,_x000D_ _x000D_ and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.
If I’m committed, there is always a way.
Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
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