Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, i…

Twyla Tharp
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Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill. ✨ Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life, Simon and Schuster
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Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product. ✨ Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life, Simon and Schuster
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.
If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion
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Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill. ✨ Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life, Simon and Schuster

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