"[[Martha Graham]] was lucky to have collaborators who pushed her when necessary and helped to rescue her from the excesses of her own exacting self-discipline. When she was trapped with Ceremonies, her musical director, [[Louis Horst]], stepped in and told her, “**One cannot always create on the same level. The Sixth Symphony followed the Fifth, but without the Sixth we could not have had the Seventh**. One cannot know what one is leading into. Transitions are as important as achievements.” --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[hindsight-bias]], [[progressing-slowly]], [[consistency]], [[failure]], **Source** -- [[202409150124 - B - Discipline is Destiny]]