In order that our art may arrive at the degree of the sublime which I demand and hope for, it is imperative for dancers to divide their time and studies between the mind and the body, and that both become the object of their application; but, unfortunately, all is given to the latter and nothing to the former. The legs are rarely guided by the brain, and, since intelligence and taste do not reside in the feet, one often goes astray.
My soul is that of a drummer. . . . I didn't do it to become rich and famous. I did it because it was the love of my life.
I think what I'd really like to see would be a mass consciousness-raising movement so that we would all become vegetarian.
English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.
We shall not become like Christ until we give Him more time.
Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.
Man's drive for self-expression, which over the centuries has built his monuments, does not stay within its bounds; the creations which yesterday were detested and the obscene become the classics of today.
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
I started 'Storyline' after I'd accomplished all my goals and still wasn't happy. I'd become a 'New York Times' bestselling author, which was my goal from high school, and yet I was less happy after accomplishing my goals than I was before.
This is something else that is drilled into us in the military: Make sure you know who your replacement is, in case you become a casualty. So you have to have depth within an organization.
You don't have to be the smartest person to become successful and wealthy. Many of the most successful and wealthy people in society are not the most educated people.
Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry.
I'm anticlerical, not antireligion. If somebody believes there is God, I'm not interested in trying to persuade that person there is no intelligent design to the universe. Where I become interested and wake up is about the temporal power of religion, things like prayer in schools, or Catholic-secular hospital mergers.
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.
Elegance is timeless. It withstands trend; It withstands the commercialization of what fashion and style have become.
Business is the economic engine of our Western culture, and if it could be transformed to truly serve nature as well as ourselves, it could become essential to our rescue.
Whatever you've learned becomes truly useful to you only once it has become second nature.
When people criticize our work, whether that work is a spreadsheet, a coffee, or our children, we take it very personally as if they were attacking us. This response shows how instead of taking criticism in ways that help us in our work, we become easily defensive and negative.
I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.