“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive”
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“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive”

Week 17 4-22-22  “To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive” Changing Lives through Dancing by David Woodbury                                        Arthur Murray Santa Monica “To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.” – Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 1894) Scottish Novelist   When covid arrived and...

“How to Get Started!”
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“How to Get Started!”

Week 43, 10-22-21 “How to Get Started!” Changing Lives Through Dancing – by David Woodbury                                                                           Arthur Murray Dance Center of Santa Monica, CA “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark...

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Keep on Trying! 8-12-16

  No 33 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, August 12, 2016 Keep on Trying! “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 Do you ever want to give up? What...

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Excellence for its own sake! 1-29-16

No 5. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, January 29, 2016 Excellence for its own sake! “Those who turn good (organizations) into great (organizations) are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.” – Jim Collins Have you ever felt that you are...

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Make the Big Committments 10-2-15

No 40. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, October 2, 2015 Make the Big Commitments Until one is committed, there is always hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one element of truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid...

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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...

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What we are capable of becoming 8-29-14

No 35 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, August 29th, 2014 To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life. Robert Louis Stevenson There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond...

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How to be a Champion Dancer! 8-7-14

No 32 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, August 8th, 2014 How to be a Champion Dancer! We all have dreams. And we all get disappointed. We all have heartache and we suffer and work to get through it. It’s just the human condition. …So I stand here today so proud. I’m...