Category: Social Dancing

  • Finding that Bit of Magic 11-6-15

    No 45. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, November 6, 2015 Finding that Bit of Magic “I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.” – J.B. Priestley (1894-1984) English Author What…

  • Leave the Rest to Fate!

    No 43. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, October 23, 2015 Leave the Rest to Fate! “But try,” you urge, “the trying shall suffice; The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!” – Robert Browning My life is great. I am…

  • The Ideal that you Enthrone in your Heart 8-21-15

    anging L No 34. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, August 21, 2015 The Ideal that you enthrone in your heart. The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart – this you will build your life by, and this you will become. — James…

  • No 30. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, July 24, 2015 Impossibilities Vanish! Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.– Jean de la Fontaine Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.– Henry Ford (1863-1947) American Industrialist At Unique Dance-O-Rama, I was…

  • Where are we going? 6-26-15

    No 26. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, June 26, 2015 Half Way Through 2015! Where are we going? So many opportunities are coming our way here at Arthur Murray Santa Monica. Every day another door opens for us to share the love of dance here in beautiful Santa Monica. Where are…

  • It’s Better to Dream and Work

    No 24. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, June 12, 2015 It’s better to Dream and Work. It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work.  Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier.– Thomas Robert Gaines I have big dreams. I want Arthur Murray Santa Monica…

  • When We Fail Blog 5-15-15

    No 20. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, May 15, 2015 When We Fail When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound. Rebuild those plans and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. — Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) American Motivational Speaker Have you ever failed? Have…

  • Believe in Someone! 5-1-15

    No 18. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, May 1, 2015 Believe in Someone! If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. — David Viscott Sometimes, we have to be the courage that helps someone else begin. This is how it is in dancing. First, we ask…

  • TIME IS SHORT! 3-27-15 David Earl Woodbury

    No 13. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, March 27, 2015 Time is Short! You, enlightened, self-sufficient, self-governed, endowed with gifts above your fellows, the world expects you to produce as well as to consume, to add to and not to subtract from its store of good, to build up and not…

  • Never Give Up 2-27-15

    No 9. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, February 27, 2015 David Woodbury Never Give Up! Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.– Marilyn vos Savant  1946-NA There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, “We…