Twyla Tharp Quotes

Be fair in all your dealings, may it be in your family or in your business. At the end of it all, what matters is not how much money you make but how honest you are.

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

When you're a little kid, growing up, most of us know what's right and wrong. Our parents teach us that discipline.

My father and mother had tremendous integrity, and obviously that affected me.

Sam Walton's values are: treat the customer right, take care of your people, be honest in your dealings, pass savings along to the customer, keep things simple, think small, control costs and continuously improve operations.

We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.

I'd like to be known for my character.

The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.

Ethics are more important than laws.

Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

My method is much like choreography. I don't sit at a table. I work in a room with people.

The headquarters of good principles.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

I have always accepted intelligence was an honorable profession. We are all mindful of the need to comply with our moral values and the law.

It varies, but in my experience, directors who are the most comfortable with themselves and confident in their work give you and everybody on the crew the freedom and the space to create.

I like to choreograph and create and design the costumes and do it all and then step back and watch it and then move on to the next project.

I want to emphasize that character in our leaders does matter.

We will build men of character.

Integrity is important in building relationships. And is the foundation upon which many other qualities for success are built, such as respect, dignity, and trust.

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be treated here as they deserve, and there are many who have no claim either to respect or decency.

I've never been in the studio where it felt like I didn't have a voice. Whether I was co-producing or producing by myself, this community is the one place where I really see democracy at its purest.