Inspirational Ballet Quotes & Sayings

Discouragement is an attitude. — Sterling W. Sill

Real men don't lift weights, they lift women. — Every Male Ballet Dancer

Lose all rather than lose your integrity, and when all else is gone, still hold fast a clear conscience as the rarest jewel which can adorn the bosom of a mortal. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

My ears hear colors and my eyes see sounds. — Suzy Kassem

I knew that I just didn't have it in me to give up, even if I sometimes felt like a fool for continuing to believe. — Misty Copeland

You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.
— Merce Cunningham

Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves. — Ben Stein

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota. — Lincoln Kirstein

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising. — Vaclav Havel

Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage. — Steve Sabol

ultimately, open source depends on intrinsic motivation with the same ferocity that older business models rely on extrinsic motivation, — Daniel H. Pink