Baryshnikov Ballet Quotes & Sayings

Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

Temperate anger well becomes the wise. — Philemon

As many times as I want," Drake told her, voice rough and dark. "Until you can't breathe without feeling me on every inch of your body. — Cynthia Eden

I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

An equal vision is an equal chance on world peace,
Petra Hermans
November 10, 2016 — Petra Hermans

Your imagination is ten times more potent than your willpower. Unleashed, it provides a sense of certainty and tenacious vision that goes far beyond any limitation of the past. — Tony Robbins

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

Finance as taught in universities is generally divided into three areas: (1) financial
management, (2) capital markets, and (3) investments. — Eugene F. Brigham

I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

At age 14, coming to the U.S., all I knew was American Ballet Theatre, Baryshnikov, Nureyev, and some of the European companies. I barely knew anything about Balanchine. — Carla Korbes

They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another — F Scott Fitzgerald

Oftentimes, when constituencies or sectors of opinion are distinct, when they are confronted with a situation where they're going to have to make a serious compromise, they react very negatively publicly, but they also recognize when they step back that this is right. — John Hickenlooper

You can feel I am whatever you want to feel I am. God knows who I am, and I know who I am. — Ving Rhames

Never permit failure to become a habit. — William Frederick Book

Within you now and always is the unborn possibility of a limitless experience of inner stability and outer treasure, and yours is the privilege of giving birth to it. And you will, if you can believe. — Eric Butterworth

There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven't had, from which I had been locked out, and it never goes away. — Robert Goolrick

Elected officials shouldn't get to choose who gets to choose elected officials. — Lewis Black

Again, after a blank moment, there would be a flickering taper-gleam in his eyeballs. It betokened that his spiritual part had returned, and was doing its best to kindle the heart's household fire, and light up intellectual lamps in the dark and ruinous mansion, where it was doomed to be a forlorn inhabitant. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Ours is a life of constant reruns. We're always circling back to where we'd we started, then starting all over again. Even if we don't run extra laps that day, we surely will come back for more of the same another day soon. — Joe Henderson

I am not an educated person. I didn't come up through a ballet company. I came up through burlesque. So I have a lot of inferiority feelings concerning my own lack of education, my entry into show business. I'm not a Baryshnikov. I'm not a Nureyev. I came up in vaudeville. Strippers. So I've always had these feelings. But I think they've also helped me. — Bob Fosse

We hiked the Matterhorn and I stopped every minute to take pictures until he fumed: "Do you think all this beauty and grandeur can fit in a little square of film? Record things in your heart. It's more important than trying to show people what you're experiencing." My — Paulo Coelho