Martha Graham, 1894-1991
was an US choreographer and dancer
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983
was an American social writer and philosopher
The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action — the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
Joseph Addison, 1672-1719
was an English essayist, poet, and politician
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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