To survive, you've got to keep wheedling your way. You can't just sit there and fight against odds when it's not going to work. You have to turn a corner, dig a hole, go through a tunnel - and find a way to keep moving.
Interpretation
Persistence and adaptability are essential for overcoming challenges.
In this quote, Twyla Tharp emphasizes the necessity of resilience in the face of adversity. Instead of resisting circumstances that may seem insurmountable, individuals must learn to navigate through difficulties with creativity and determination, adjusting their paths as needed to keep progressing towards their goals.
In practice
In a motivational speech about facing life's challenges.
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.
There is no need to give in to the compromise that totalitarian regimes always count on.
In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind.
Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.
A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you.
I think I'm attracted to subjects that I'm afraid of. It's a way to approach things I am afraid of, things that bring fear in my heart, and try to understand them, try to deal with them. It's like demons. I try to approach it and understand it... I'm just visiting fears.
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