#imp

I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#dance #dancing #i #i think #modern

I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#enough #i #i think #lives #make

In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#access #actually #because #committed #few

My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#dominant #dominant force #education #everything #exclusivity

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#copy #doing #else #fails #life

Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#content #disguises #extreme #important #lack

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#any #because #become #crash #feel

I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion. ↗

— Andrea Thompson

#forgiveness #i #i think #imperfect #learn

That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#analysis #believe #decision #decision making #existing

Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#end #end result #enviable #enviable position #get