Epilogue

·      Dance Beginners:
Make sure you have strong basics in any dance you are learning, before moving up a level or learning new patterns.  It will make the next level a lot more frustrating if you don't know your basics well enough.  We all started at the beginning and repeated the first level a few times before moving up.  Sometimes as intermediate or advanced dancers, its a good idea to refresh our memories by taking a basic class again, as a reminder of a few things we have forgotten about.[327]

 

·      Be careful about reading health books.  You may die of a misprint.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

 

·      Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Einstein, Albert

 

·    I’m not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I’m going to Hell?

Matt Groening (1954 - ), The Simpsons

 

·   The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

John Gray, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus

 

·      The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.[328]

 

·      We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.”[329]

 

·      Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it’s the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

Christopher Morley (1890–1957), U.S. novelist

 

·      We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same…. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

Martha Graham, quoted in ib 5 Aug 86

 

·      Dance is bigger than the physical body. ...When you extend your arm, it doesn’t stop at the end of your fingers, because you’re dancing bigger than that; you’re dancing spirit.

Judith Jamison (b. 1943), U.S. dancer. Dancing Spirit, ch. 21 (1993).

 

·     Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

David Letterman (1947 - )

 

·      Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Will Cuppy

 

·      I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988), Letter to Armando Garcia J, December 11, 1985

 

·    He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, Chapter 2

 

·   For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

 

·      The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

Ursula K. LeGuin

 

·      Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster.  Your life will never be the same again.

Og Mandino[330] (1923 - 1996), The Greatest Miracle in the World

 

·      God, I don’t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 26, 2002[331]

 

·      “The only constant in life is change.”  So say all those who work with teenagers.  Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790) put it another way.  On one of his more cynical days he said, “All human situations have their inconveniences.  We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.”  With change, there’s always the risk of things going sour.