Quotes About Discipline

One is born to be a great dancer.

You have to be a little crazy to be a dancer.

Nobody is born a dancer.

When I was 3 years old, my parents put me in ballet and I really thought I was gonna be a ballet dancer for a long time.

Absolutely, I'll always be a dancer.

I was a dancer for long time. And you always hear that ballet is the core of dance, and that - once you have that down - you can do everything else. For me, jazz is like that for music.

I went away when I was 9 to a ballet school. I thought I wanted to be a dancer, but eight years of ballet cured me of that.

A good dancer is an educated one, so don't abandon school.

I am not a natural dancer.

No one can hand you anything as a dancer. You have to earn it.

You are an athlete if you are a dancer.

Up until I was about 12, I was a ballet dancer and a basketball player.

As a dancer, you're told not to go into it for the money.

From the ages of 5 to 17, I was a competitive dancer. I even went to an arts high school and double-majored in dance and theatre.

I used to be a dancer.

I was a dancer for over 20 years.

Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.

You can talk about systems until you're blue in the face but that's secondary - if you're closing down, if you're first to the ball, it doesn't really matter what system you've got.

I edit as I write and shoot. Any extra line, any pause that I know will get chopped on the editing table is done away with then and there.

I was always shouted at by my teacher because I would draw straight on the table in the school.

Like many Asian parents, mine were very focused on education. My dad would quiz me with multiplication tables when I was about 5.

Players thump their cue on the floor when the opponent is coming to the table, or at the table. And the referees need to show some more authority on this stuff. You don't see it so much with top players or on TV tables - they know they can't get away with it.

Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don't think there's a single background or a single discipline that is sufficient to tackle these great human problems.

I see similarities in the sports I played growing up in the sense of how I tackle a role when I get a job. A lot of effort goes in on an individual basis. There is a lot of time spent by yourself working on your craft and what you have to do. But, at the end of the day, you're there to serve the movie just like you would the rugby team.