Category: Arthur Murray Dance Center

  • No 36 9-7-18 “To Discover Ability in Others”

    “It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.” – Elbert Hubbard (1856 – 1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher Today as an older dancer, I love to discover the great new dancers of today and help them grow and mature to their full…

  • No 35 8-31-18 “Go out and do something kind for somebody”

    “When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something kind for somebody.”

  • No 33 8-17-18 “Good friendships are fragile things”

    “Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing.” – Randolph S. Bourne (1886 – 1918) American Writer After 42 years with Arthur Murray Dance Centers, I now have a lifetime of my dancing friends, and they are truly my family. These are precious and fragile relationships. All…

  • No 28 7-13-18 “The Greatest Test of Courage”

    “The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”             – R.G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899) American lawyer Do you like the rough times in life? I don’t. I can barely handle the great times in life with all their abundance and joy, much less loss, illness,…

  • No 27 7-6-18 “Keeping your Memories”

    “If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.” – Bob Dylan (1941) American songwriter, singer Living your dreams is not easy. It takes a lot of courage and pluck to turn a thought into an action that turns into a dream that becomes a reality. And dream has a way of…

  • No 23 6-8-18 “Learn to be Brave and Patient”

    “Learn to be Brave and Patient”

  • No 19 5-11-18 “A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.”

    “A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.” – Jack Dempsey (1895 – 1983) American professional boxer There have been a few times when I could not get up in life. I was beaten down, crushed, defeated, and lost in the dark night of the soul. And yet, I got up. Jack Dempsey said it…

  • No 17 4-27-18 “A Failure is a Mark of Experience”

    I had not failed, but I had not fully opened my eyes to our true success and our great possibilities of growth. Perhaps my past ‘marks of experience’ had given me strength, wisdom, hope, vision, and a new excitement to achieve and hit new great goals.

  • No 15 4-13-18 “We Must Do the Thing We Think We Cannot Do”

    No 15 4-13-18 “We Must Do the Thing We Think We Cannot Do”   These are two of my favorite quotes in life, both from Eleanor Roosevelt   “You must do the things you think you cannot do.”  and “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” -both by Eleanor…

  • No 14 4-6-18 “We Must Sail Sometimes with the Wind”   “I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, — but we must sail,…