Famous Quotes

"Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism."

Twyla Tharp on Experience

More quotes about Experience

• "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards."

  Soren Kierkegaard on Experience

• "The only source of knowledge is experience."

  Albert Einstein on Experience

• "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

  C. S. Lewis on Experience

• "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

  Oscar Wilde on Experience

• "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

  Mark Twain on Experience

More quotes by Twyla Tharp

• "Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."

• "The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts."

• "Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business."

• "The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts."

• "My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment."