The Creative Habit Quotes

“My greatest dream is always to be luckier.”
― Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“Art is a vast democracy of habit.”
― Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“the man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“You only need one good reason to commit to an idea, not four hundred. But if you have four hundred reasons to say yes and one reason to say no, the answer is probably no.”
― Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“Personality is a skill.”
― Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“There in a nutshell is the essence of creativity: There are a number of possibilities, but only one solution looks inevitable.”
― Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“You remember much more than you may think you do, in ways you haven't considered.”
― Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“...but whether or not God has kissed your brow, you still have to work. Without learning and preparation, you won't know how to harness the power of that kiss.”
― Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“In every situation, at the beginning or end of the workday, you have a choice. You can look back or you can look forward. My advice: look forward. Always think about the next day. Don't go into the studio thinking, 'Hmmm, let's see what I was doing yesterday?' It takes more energy to twist yourself around and look back that it does to face forward.”
― Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“I became my own rebellion. Going with your head makes it arbitrary. Going with your gut means you have no choice. It's inevitable, which is why I have no regrets.”
― Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“Zoe refers to the aggregate. Bios accommodates the notion of death, that each life has a beginning, middle, and end, that each life contains a story. Zoe, wrote Kerenyi, “does not admit of the experience of its own destruction: it is experienced without end, as infinite life.”
― Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life