Judith Jamison Quotes

I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

I've always loved dancing. As soon as there is good music, I've got to get up and dance. I was passionate about ballet as a little girl.

I've been dancing forever; since I remember, that's what I've been doing.

Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost.

We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves

I play every day. It's like a habit for me now. I just, if I don't play, I kind of miss - something's off.

Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.

Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.

Dancing is why I love music as much as I do and vice-versa, and there aren’t many things better than those two combined.

Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.

There was simply from this quite early age the awareness that the only thing I wanted was to dance.

Dancing is a part of my life where when I don't dance I feel like there's something missing because I'm such a physical person who loves to express myself through dance, but I love to act. I love to sing. I love to entertain so if I'm passionate about a certain project, I wanna do it.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I ever did, I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion.

Habit is, of all the plants of human growth, the one that has the least need of nutritious soil in order to live, and is the first to appear on the most seemingly barren rock.

Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.

Shakin' like a bowl of soup and make your body loop-de-loop.

You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.

We all got up to dance. Oh, but we never got the chance!

Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.

Nothing is stronger than habit.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.