“No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.”
"Dance for me a minute, and I’ll tell you who you are."
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
Self-awareness
"Dancers are made, not born."
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
Personal Growth
"There comes a moment in a young artist’s life when he know she has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something."
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
Personal Growth
"The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep."
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
Creativity
"The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure."
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
Joy
"What a wonderful time to be young! You have knowledge of many more things than we needed to have. It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours — better in many ways! I have faith that you young men and young women can meet the world on its own terms and conquer it!"
- President Boyd K. Packer
Ambition
"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."
- Mark Twain
Ambition
"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."
- David Ogilvy
Ambition
"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."
- Billie Jean King
Ambition
"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."
- Michael Jordan
Ambition