A Quote by William Watson Purkey

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt

William Watson Purkey

Quote Topics

Dance Gotta Hurt Like Like You Love Never Nobody Watching

Quote Author

William Watson Purkey
Writer
Born: August 22, 1929

...there is a celebrated aphorism insisting that the best way to live is to 'work like you don't need the money, dance like nobody is watching, and love like you've never been hurt.'...After years of hearing and reading these lines I have decided to tell the truth: the original version is wrong. There is a grave error in the wording of this adage. The correct version should go as follows: Love like you don't need the money, Work like nobody is watching, Dance like you've never been hurt. See? Doesn't that make more sense?

Gina Barreca

Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth.

Susanna Clarke

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

Satchel Paige

You've got to dance like nobody's watching, and love like it's never going to hurt.

Kathy Mattea

You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.

Susanna Clarke

Sing like nobody can hear you, dance like nobody can see you, and love like you've never been hurt.

Dick Van Dyke

Work like you don't need money, Love like you've never been hurt, And dance like no one's watching. Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made

Ted Shawn

May you always work like you don't need the money; May you always love like you've never been hurt; and May you always dance like there's nobody watching.

Jack Canfield

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

Victor Hugo

Everyone tries to get you to dance at clubs. They come up to you and say "You gotta dance! you gotta dance!" And then I dance, and they're like, "Not like that!"

Mike Birbiglia

Dance as if no one's watching, love as if it's never going to hurt.

Stuart Appleby

Live like you'll die tomorrow, work like you don't need the money, and dance like nobody's watching.

Bob Fosse

Dance like nobody's watching.

Kathy Mattea

I like watching American TV shows like 'The Sopranos,' 'Game of Thrones,' etc. I also like to watch dance reality shows since I love to dance, even though I haven't been trained in dancing.

Kunal Khemu

While I love dancing and I am trained in certain forms, I can tell you that I dance better with my daughter because we dance like there is no one watching us.