I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell, or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.


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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
MARTHA GRAHAM
Self-improvement books, friends, and polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical ap...
MARTHA BECK
The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I pu...
MARTHA REEVES
The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to cho...
MARTHA BECK
Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just ...
MARTHA QUINN
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a...
MARTHA GRAHAM
Many of us have spent a lifetime trying to be what we're not, feeling lousy about ourselves when...
MARTHA BECK
Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned th...
MARTHA BECK
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
MARTHA GRAHAM
Single lady, the man you want might not necessarily be the man you need.
MARTHA MACHARIA
Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in t...
MARTHA BECK
Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned ...
MARTHA GELLHORN
Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and ...
MARTHA BECK
People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.
MARTHA BECK
Something in the human psyche confuses beauty with the right to be loved. The briefest glance at hum...
MARTHA BECK
What happens when we're willing to feel bad is that, sure enough, we often feel bad - but withou...
MARTHA BECK
When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread f...
MARTHA BECK
Once we're willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attract...
MARTHA BECK
I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive th...
MARTHA REEVES
All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. Peopl...
MARTHA BECK
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
MARTHA GELLHORN
Our ideas about love and attractiveness are so primal, our need for belonging so intense, that most ...
MARTHA BECK
It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. W...
MARTHA PLIMPTON
Ten years ago, I still feared loss enough to abandon myself in order to keep things stable. I'd ...
MARTHA BECK
Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged fro...
MARTHA BECK
Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't...
MARTHA BECK
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one ...
MARTHA BECK
I think I just stick to eating a well-rounded diet. I don't cut out anything; if I crave somethi...
MARTHA HUNT
Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies sho...
MARTHA BECK
My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to...
MARTHA BECK
Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely ...
MARTHA BECK
We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live b...
MARTHA GRAHAM
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of ...
MARTHA GRAHAM
I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.
MARTHA PLIMPTON
If it were in our national security to deploy to South Africa under apartheid, would we have found i...
MARTHA MCSALLY
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
MARTHA GRAHAM
The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit.
MARTHA ROBY
A designated patient 'carries' the group's dysfunction. A designated issue performs the ...
MARTHA BECK
Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you ...
MARTHA PLIMPTON
Raising taxes in an economic downturn is not a good idea.
MARTHA MCSALLY
Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from...
MARTHA BECK