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"One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline."
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"Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it's always because they know why."

"Your daily choices and actions should be rational and productive."

"The one who straightens out himself will attain moksha [will be liberated]. If you don't straighten out, people will beat you into doing so. The doorway to moksha [ultimate liberation] is narrow, so how will you be able to enter if you are obstinate?"

"An army of disciplined sheep is greater than an army of undisciplined wolves."

"There is no gift of principles, you must apply them if you want to move forward."

"The standards of this new time are forcing us to put our lives in order before God."

"Control yourself every passing second and make sure that no unit of time is being wasted."

"If you understand that a wasted time is a wasted life, you will start running away from television, you will begin to run away from movies, you will run away from games like criminal case and candy crush."

"People should not expect to eat if they did not work."
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"The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas."

"One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline."

"On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb."

"Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning."

"What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity."

"I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell."

"We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world."

"Those 25 dancers we worked with for a day, in as highly productive a way as possible - a long class, a period of teaching bits of the repertory - in fact I didn't teach Bank, I've used parts of Oil and Water."

"They improve greatly, and sometimes I go and see the performances they do and I am consciously aware that there isn't enough work for the good dancers."
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