The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
Interpretation
Embracing change is essential, while stagnation is more frightening.
In this quote, Twyla Tharp expresses her deep-seated fear of stagnation. She suggests that the absence of change is more intimidating than the challenges that come with change itself, highlighting a belief that growth and progress are integral aspects of life and creativity. The 'business of being static' indicates a strong aversion to a lack of movement or evolution, showcasing that she thrives in dynamic environments where growth and adaptation are constant.
In practice
In a motivational speech about embracing new opportunities.
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.
When I'm working, on sets or stages, my contracts specify in the rider that no plastic bottles be used. When I'm playing with my band, we all use metal and non-plastic containers for drinking to be ecologically sensitive and show others that this is the way to go.
Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.
Left unchecked, climate change risks not only making the poorest poorer, but pulling the emerging middle classes back into poverty, too.
By aspiring to join the mainstream rather than figuring out the ways we need to change it, we risk loosing our gay and lesbian souls in order to gain the world.
I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a harsh, cruel, world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go.
Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It's your move.
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