Twyla Tharp Quotes

I was always taught to let the obstacles be your guide because they lead you to places that you wouldn't have gone on your own. Instead of going through a rock, you go around it, creating a path.

You do the best you can with what's thrown at you, then you try again.

If there are challenges thrown across, then some interesting, innovative solutions are found. Without challenges, the tendency is to go on the same way.

If something doesn't go your way, then look for another way. If something's broken, fix it.

I'm learning along the way, and there's going to be some little bumps and bruises, but as long as I keep rolling with the punches, I will keep moving up.

You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.

You know you can usually solve almost any problem, or you'll realize you can't, but usually you can solve almost any problem through some sort of trickery one way or another and get the shot to work, but you know when to give up.

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Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.

You have to go forward: It's the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal law.

The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game.

Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don't get through.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Because if you're prepared and you know what it takes, it's not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there.

But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.

You win any which way you can. You do what you have to do to get by. That's the way it works in any job.

If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.

We have to adapt and overcome, that's all we can do.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.

It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.

Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.

A will finds a way.

Almost nothing works the first time it's attempted. Just because what you're doing does not seem to be working, doesn't mean it won't work. It just means that it might not work the way you're doing it.

Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one.