To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.
I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.
In terms of individuals who actually inspired me very few of the academic...
My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born in...
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain...
There is no reason to repeat bad history.
There were various turning points, but the main one at the beginning was...
Look into the heavens and say, “It’s my turn to make history.
