Twyla Tharp Quotes

I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.

Anything that controls my state of mind I never really want to do because I always want to be under control. That might be part of me being a Virgo. I never want to do something that stops me from being in control of who I am and my actions.

My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits.

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

I think I'm mostly looking forward to the college life. I'm looking forward to more freedom. Here everything is really structured and scheduled, but in college you've got to be more responsible and you can get things done on your own time. I'm really looking forward to that.

You have to take responsibility for how you act. You can't fix everyone.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.

It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Being independent isn't as flashy as a lot of people may think. It's a lot of hard work; its a lot of investing your own money. And to creatively time to make your day work - it's on you to make it work, and no one else.

I've got to be aware of what's going on. I can't drink too much or make a fool of myself.

We can control how we run, and that's about it.

I think you create your own boundaries, and you work within them.

I can ruin my own career, but I will not ruin anyone elses' career with my mouth.

I'm not immune to disciplinary problems and it's up to me to make strong choices. It's my responsibility.

I've always been pretty disciplined.

I can't control what everyone else does, I can't control anybody else's behavior, but I can control mine.

Freedom is one of the principal goals of human endeavor, but the best use man can make of his freedom is to place limitations upon it.

Don't waste time asking God to keep you from doing things. Don't do them.