Iwasaki Quotes & Sayings

Knowledge passes from dance teacher into the student through the process of mane, which is often translated as imitation, but learning to dance is more a process of total identification than of simple copying. We repeat the movements of our teachers until we can duplicate them exactly, until, in a sense, we have absorbed the teacher's mastery into ourselves. Artistic technique must be fully integrated into the cells of our bodies if we are to use it to express what is in our hearts, and this takes many years of practice. — Mineko Iwasaki

Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past. — Alan Lightman

first cut is the deepest — Esti Kinasih

And we are not mountaintop sages who can live by consuming mist. — Mineko Iwasaki

Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime. — Mineko Iwasaki

So we support the dance but it does not support us. — Mineko Iwasaki

Impulses of intelligence constantly create the body in new forms every second. — Deepak Chopra

I have a bad reputation for being temperamental. — Ted Kotcheff

Cleaning is considered a vital part of the training process in all traditional Japanese disciplines and is a required practice for any novice. It is accorded spiritual significance. Purifying an unclean place is believed to purify the mind. — Mineko Iwasaki

The individual is the little conditioned, miserable, frustrated entity, satisfied with his little gods and his little traditions, whereas a human being is concerned with the total welfare, the total misery and total confusion of the world. — Jiddu Krishnamurti