Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
Interpretation
Life is about uncertainty and the unknown, and true creativity lies in embracing that mystery.
Agnes De Mille emphasizes that living fully involves embracing uncertainty and the unknown. When one becomes overly certain and confident in their understanding, they cease to truly live and create, losing the spontaneity that defines the artistic spirit. The artist's journey is one of continuous exploration and vulnerability, suggesting that taking risks and accepting the potential for failure is essential to both life and artistry.
In practice
In a motivational speech about taking risks in career choices.
Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
I felt dull and flat and full of shattered visions.
You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didnt. And some part of me has never quit wishin I could go back. And I cant. I didn't know you could steal your own life. And I didnt know that it would bring you no more benefit than about anything else you might steal. I thinkI done the best with itI knew how but itstill wasntmine. It neverhas been.
I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.
Live a vital life. If you live well, you will earn well. If you live well, it will show in your face; it will show in the texture of your voice. There will be something unique and magical about you if you live well. It will infuse not only your personal life but also your business life. And it will give you a vitality nothing else can give.
I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.
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