A Quote by Twyla Tharp

if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
American - Dancer
Born: July 1, 1941

There is some other form that you contain within yourself that is not will or purpose and, when applied to art, serves you best. If you systematically apply to the art that you create the aggression of the world that turned you towards art in the first place; if you, in turn, become the aggressor towards your canvas, the thing that you're doing; if you, in turn, work your will upon this thing that you want - you will then cause a dissatisfaction in this life that you create.

Milton Resnick

Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

Salman Rushdie

Exposing yourself to many kinds of art can only lead to amazing things. It helps you learn about your own art, your own taste, what kind of art you want to create for yourself.

Phillipa Soo

Men who just call to say hello generally have ulterior motives.

Steig Larsson

The dog’s agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. “I want to go out, come in, eat something, lie here, play with that, kiss you. There are no ulterior motives with a dog, no mind games, no second-guessing, no complicated negotiations or bargains, and no guilt trips or grudges if a request is denied.

Caroline Knapp

I feel like, especially in Hollywood, you meet people with ulterior motives, who are trying to get something from you.

Shannon Purser

My obvious happiness and open, sharing nature made me vulnerable to people with ulterior motives.

Sonja Morgan

The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.

Paul Valery

When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives.

Albert Camus

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.

Mother Teresa

If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

Mother Teresa

The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.

Franz Kafka

It saddens me when public officials and bureaucrats are criticized for ulterior motives, none of which I have ever found in a government bureaucrat, or when someone personalizes disagreements.

Michael K. Powell

Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed mindedness are the enemies of understanding.

John Fairclough

It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

All of us know that when the confidence of a private conversation is breached by a party with ulterior motives or one who simply misunderstands what the speaker says or means, the speaker can always be embarrassed.

Jeff Sessions

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