Annalise Thompson

Trust the Wait

Trust the wait. Embrace the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of becoming. When nothing is certain, anything is possible. ~mindsetofgreatness

Being Proud

In the end, it’s about being proud of yourself for being where you are now. ~Unknown

Start Over

Don’t be afraid to start over. It gives you a chance to build something better. ~Unknown

You Should Do It

If it excites you and scares you at the same time, it probably means you should do it. ~Unknown

Be Amazing

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be. ~Maya Angelou

Rise

We rise by lifting others. ~Robert Ingersoll

New Day

All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight. ~Shannon L. Alder

Do Nothing

Taking time to do nothing often brings everything into perspective. ~Doe Zantamata

You Already Are

The Universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself, everthing that you want you already are. ~Rumi

Who I Am

See how far you’ve come? Be proud of yourself. If nothing else, one day, you can look at someone straight in the eye and say: “But I lived through it and it made me who I am today.” ~Unknown

Magic of Beginnings

And suddenly, you know…It’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings. ~Unknown

Don’t Worry

Don’t worry. Just when you think your life is over, a new story line falls from the sky and lands right in your lap. ~Rebekah Crane

Never Give Up

Never give up on anyone. And that includes giving up on yourself. ~Dieter F. Uchtdor

Experience

You should never regret anything in life. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience. ~Unknown

Positive Energy

Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. For we are connected, one and all. ~Deborah Day

Unplug

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes…including you. ~Anne Lamott

Breaks

Just because you take breaks doesn’t mean you’re broken. ~Curtis Tyrone Jones

Hard

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go. ~Nick Hornby

What it Needs

Take a break and give your soul what it needs. ~Audrey Kitching

Pause

Stop. Pause. Breathe. Cry if you must. But keep going. ~Unknown

Fate

Never let fear decide your fate. ~Karen Monica

Respect Feelings

Respect people’s feelings. Even if it doesn’t mean anything to you, it could mean everything to them. ~Unknown

Umbrella

I have no power to control the weather. But I can bring an umbrella. ~Unknown

Action Will

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. ~W. Clement Stone

Respect the Differences

A great relationship is about two things, first, find out the similarities, second, respect the differences. ~Unknown

Not Attention

Seek respect, not attention. It lasts longer. ~Unknown

Forms of Respect

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say. ~Jenny Garrett

Letting Go

Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go. ~Hermann Hesse

Art of Living

A good half of the art of living is resilience. ~Alain de Botton

Character

Character is who you are under pressure, not who you are when everything’s fine. ~Unknown

Courage to Continue

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the Courage to continue that counts. ~Winston S. Churchill

Turtle

Like the turtle, you need to stick your neck out to make progress. ~Anna Olson

Resilient

Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving; we get stronger and more resilient. ~Dr. Steve Maraboli

Element

Patience is a key element of success. ~Bill Gates

Born Again

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most. ~Buddha

Everything You Are

Stop discrediting yourself for everything you aren’t. Start giving yourself credit for everything that you are. ~Unknown

Courage

Courage is grace under pressure. ~Ernest Hemingway

Make It

You’re going to make it. It’ll be hard, but you’re going to make it. ~Unknown

Balance

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. ~Albert Einstein

Grit

GRIT noun Made up of hustle, passion and perseverance.

No Secrets

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure. ~Colin Powell

Diamond

A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure. ~Henry Kissinger

Stay Strong

When life gives you a hundred reasons to break down and cry, show life that you have a million reasons to smile and laugh. Stay Strong. ~Stephenie Meyer

Try Harder

One of the hardest decisions you’ll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder. ~Ziad Abdelnour

A Person’s Will

Life has many ways of testing a person’s will either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once. ~Paulo Coelho

Rainbow

Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter sliding down a rainbow. ~Terri Guillemets

Says A Lot

How you make others feel about themselves says a lot about you. ~Berta Lippert

Whole World

Helping one person might not change the whole world, but it could change the world for one person. ~Unknown

Waves

Happiness comes in waves. It will find you again. ~Anna Bolton

Hardest Climb

The best view comes after the hardest climb. ~Unknown

Rock Bottom

Rock bottom is a good solid ground, and a dead-end street is just a place to turn around. ~Buddy Buie

Meaningful

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. ~ Joshua J. Marine

Beautiful

What if this painful breaking is part of a beautiful remaking. ~Lysa Terkeurst

Hope

Pain is real but so is HOPE ~Toby Mac

Competition should be a part of our educational process, but not the entire focus. We need to give our students a range of performance opportunities and make it clear that the best reward for performing is audience applause and appreciation. ~Rhee Gold

Listening

Listening is often the only thing needed to help someone. ~Toby Mac

Positive Aspects

Though some students may never develop technical expertise, a good teacher will find other positive aspects of their behavior or training to praise them for, like commitment, perseverance, a can-do attitude, achieving a personal best, expressiveness, creativity, or a sense of humor. ~Rhee Gold

Struggles

Don’t get sucked into short-term thinking. Your struggles will not last forever, but you will. ~Max Lucado

Future is Bright

I am proud of our dance community and honored to be part of it. Yes, we can do better—there’s always room to grow—and we will. But we have come a long way, baby, and the future looks bright. ~Rhee Gold

Watching

Children will learn far more by watching than listening. ~Billy Graham

Intuition

The truth that sits in your gut in the form of intuition is the most powerful messanger you will ever know.~Unknown

Calm the Storm

You can’t calm the storm…so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass. ~Timber Hawkeye

Impression

Make it GOOD! Your recital is your final impression on your current clients, and it’s the first impression on an audience full of potential new ones. ~Rhee Gold

Overcame Everything

She overcame everything that was meant to destroy her. ~Unknown

Something Will Grow

Something will GROW from all you are going through. And it will be YOU. ~Toby Mac

Body

HOW TO HAVE A DANCER’S BODY 1) HAVE A BODY 2) DANCE ~Unknown

Be Our Love

It will be our love, not our opinions, which will be our greatest contribution to the world. ~Bob Goff

YOUR Studio

Be strong enough to stick to your beliefs and policies. Respect your expertise when it comes to directing YOUR studio YOUR way! ~Rhee Gold

Courage

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spine of others are stiffened. ~Billy Graham

Expose Students

Competing should not be to beat anyone, but to expose students to the highest caliber of talent available. Do it to motivate them and to give them an appreciation for other dancers and schools. Only then can we produce the best dancers and teachers possible. ~Rhee Gold

Survived

You’ve survived 100% of everything in your life so far, so there’s a pretty good chance that you’ll survive whatever is next! ~Timber Hawkeye

Silent

LIFE LESSON Wise people are not always silent, but they know when to be. ~Unknown

Overcame

One day you will tell your story of how you overcame what you went through, and it will be someone else’s survival guide. ~Unknown

Show Business

Remember show business is two words. Never neglect the business side. ~Melanie Hedden-Perron

Parents

I can tell you that many parents believe that their child is one of the best dancers. But most of them keep it to themselves to avoid being one of those stage moms or alienating the parents of your child’s classmates. ~Rhee Gold

Control

When you can’t control what’s happening challenge yourself to control the way respond to what’s happening. That’s where your power is! ~Unknown

Somewhere Else

Teachers create their class atmosphere; if they aren’t excited, then neither will their students be. This occurs with teachers who would rather be somewhere else—and often that somewhere else is with the most advanced dancers. ~Rhee Gold

Persistence

A river cuts through a rock not because of its power, but its persistence. ~Unknown

Same Respect

We’re The Same All dance teachers, no matter where in the world they are from, feel the same respect for their calling. We all have “dance blood” flowing through our veins; we’ve all experienced the same joys and hardships. ~Rhee Gold

Seeing Light

Hope is seeing light in spite of being surrounded by darkness. ~ Unknown

Forgive

Forgive people, even those who are not sorry for their actions. Holding on to the anger messes up your vibe and hurts you, not them. ~Rhee Gold

Find Joy

Sometimes you have to let go of the picture of what you thought life would be like and learn to find joy in the story you are actually living. ~Rachel Marie Marti

The Best

SIMPLE We have an obligation to help to build self-esteem, while we encourage all children to be the best they can be. ~Rhee Gold

Overcoming

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. ~Helen Keller

Broken Crayons

Broken crayons still color. ~ Unknown

I Can

I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things. ~Mother Teresa

Strong Enough

You are strong enough to face it all, even if it doesn’t feel like it right now. ~ Unknown

3 Choices

You’ve got 3 choices: give in, give up, or give it all you’ve got. ~ Unknown

Hard

No matter how hard or unfair life seems to be, we can overcome any challenge if we focus on finding solutions. ~ Brad Turnbull

Reasons

Forget all the reasons why it won’t work and believe the one reason why it will. ~ Unknown

Hope

Hope is the ability to hear the melody of the future. Faith is the courage to dance to it today. ~ Unknown

Overreacted

A school superintendent said something profound in his address cancelling school for the next 3 weeks. He said: In the end, it will be impossible to know if we overreacted or did too much, but it will be QUITE apparent if we under reacted or did too little. ~ Unknown

New Story

You’ve got a new story to write and it looks nothing like your past. ~ Toby Mac

Be Proud

Stop worrying about how many times you have fallen. Be PROUD of how many times you have picked yourself up. ~Unknown

Talk to Yourself

Talk to yourself like you would someone you love. ~Brene Brown

Control

I am not a control freak BUT can I show you the right way to do that? ~Unknown

Everyone

Dance like EVERYONE is watching! ~Rhee Gold

Be Wise

Take risks: If you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise. ~Unknown

It Just Is

DANCE It’s a lifetime passion that can’t be described, it just is. ~Rhee Gold

Second Row

Look for and appreciate the little dancer in the second row that may not be as strong as the others—but boy, does she have the passion. Grab her by the hand, bring her to the front of the classroom, and make her day. It could be the moment that gives her the confidence to become…

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