Twyla Tharp Quotes

I find solace in immersing myself in my work.

Devoting a little of yourself to everything means committing a great deal of yourself to nothing.

I'm always aware that I risk being taken for a neurasthenic prima donna when I explain to someone who wants 'just a little' of my time that five minutes of the wrong kind of distraction can ruin a working day.

One either meets or one works.

Cruising the Internet doesn't count as writing. Neither does answering e-mail. Before you check Twitter & FB and do other similar tasks that get in the way of writing, write first. (I really need to take my own advice here!)

We don't have any problem finding enough things to do; the problem we have is making sure we don't overload ourselves inadvertently.

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

You can't live and write at the same time.

If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.

Person who chases two rabbits catches neither.

Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation.

Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.

I'm composing more than before. I'm cutting down on conducting.

Just concentrate on what you're supposed to do

While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.

Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you ride?

People put on their earphones, they lay out their phones, they put - open up their computers, and they convince themselves that they're most productive when they're focused on their e-mail, when, really, they're ignoring the cafeteria, the watercooler, the meetings with colleagues, the times when really the creativity, collaboration happens.

Business before pleasure.

Best productivity tool ever invented? Easy...the word "no".

The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.

Each thing I do, I rush through, so I can do something else.

It is hard to produce work in New York. You kind of have to center yourself - do some Zen meditation exercises and just focus. It is very distracting, and money, of course, is an issue.

Stop managing your time. Start managing your focus.

If you're going to hire an assassin, let him go out and kill someone. I can't be Shaq taking six or seven shots.