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Quote by Twyla Tharp
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing th

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

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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. – Twyla Tharp

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Education
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My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching. – Twyla Tharp

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Family
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The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts. – Twyla Tharp

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Business
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But its a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn. – Emma Watson

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Experience

The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson. – Author Unknown

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Experience

We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we cant come up with real lasting solutions! – Margaret J. Wheatley

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Experience

I dont think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them. – Carlos Fuentes

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When a black Jacksonian looks about his home community, he sees a city of over 150,000, of which 40% is Negro, in which there is not a single Negro policeman or policewoman, school crossing guard, or fireman. – Medgar Evers

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Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty. – Lillian Hellman

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The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future. – Angela Merkel

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