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Experience Quotes

What years and habits teach you.

This collection uses "experience" to cover both comfort and unease — from finding solace in familiar music, to noticing how wealth and poverty can sit side by side in daily life. For a broader look at personal journeys, see Journey quotes.

I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total...

Quotes by Julie Taymor

I moved frequently because my dad was in the army, so I was always new in school. I think if you've ever done that, you know what it means to not matter in a room. I think it's a good...

Quotes by Julianne Moore

It's hard to make a living at independent films, at least in my experience. It can be hard to be really creatively fulfilled in some television. Between the two, I get a bit of both.

Quotes by Julianne Nicholson

It was a great learning experience to work with James Stewart.

Quotes by Julie Adams

'Wonka' was an unforgettable experience. When I first saw the set, it was like walking into a theme park, and most of it was edible.

Quotes by Julie Dawn Cole

I did two episodes of 'The Walking Dead,' and it was enough to have time to get in there and really get the meat of it, but also then move on and take that experience and bring it into the...

Quotes by Juliana Harkavy

I got pregnant at 40 by surprise. It's funny, because when we found out we were pregnant, I said, 'Okay, let's experience that.' You just have to just go with it because it's rare.

Quotes by Julianna Margulies

The only part of my mother's experience that still gets to me is the way she and people like her were looked down upon for asking America to be America, for asking for full and equal participation in our democracy.

Quotes by Julian Castro

When I first joined the Secret Service in 1983, I was right out of college, having spent the last two or three years of my college experience working as a police officer for the city of Orlando, Florida.

Quotes by Julia Pierson

I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.

Quotes by Julia Stiles

It was a fine cancer experience, as cancer experiences go.

Quotes by Julia Sweeney

In my experience, those who make the biggest fuss about not spending much at Christmas are generally the ones who buy what they want and eat where they want 12 months a year.

Quotes by Julian Baggini

Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of...

Quotes by Julian Baggini

I don't like to talk too much about my music; I like people to just experience it and not worry what I have to say.

Quotes by Julia Holter

Amidst all the internal and external babble we experience daily, it's hard to find one's foundation.

Quotes by Julia Holter

'Have You in My Wilderness,' the title track, is about the idea of possessing a person, or saying, 'You're mine; you're in my world now.' I was drawn to that as an idea less from my own experience than from...

Quotes by Julia Holter

It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn't Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you'd opened your eyes wide enough.

Quotes by Julia Ormond

I can hold space for people who think I'm a nut job. It's cool. But I know from my own experience what I experienced. I know what I learned. I know what I saw. I know what I heard.

Quotes by Julia Butterfly Hill

I want first-time offenders to think of their appearance in my courtroom as the second-worst experience of their lives - circumcision being the first.

Quotes by Judy Sheindlin

My experience at the White House was invaluable.

Quotes by Judy Smith

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these "Experience" quotes reflect on?
A range of personal reflections - using music constantly for company or isolation, thoughts on early comedy writing, an observation about wealth and poverty coexisting in Mexico, and how youthful confidence can become weighed down over time.
Is there a quote about music as a daily experience?
Yes, one quote describes having music "in my ears all the time," whether for company, isolation, or just to make it pleasurable, though the speaker admits to not paying too much attention to it since they tend to listen to the same things. For more on that idea, see the Experiencing page.
Is there a quote about confidence changing over time?
Yes, one quote describes a "robust confidence" from the teenage years that became constricted and weighed down by sensory experience by the speaker's mid-20s. Browse the Journey page for more on personal growth over time.
Is there a quote about wealth and poverty based on firsthand experience?
Yes, one quote observes that in Mexico, "wealth and poverty live next to each other and are cordial with each other," based directly on the speaker's own experience. For more first-hand reflections, see the Experienced page.
Is there anything here about early career or creative influences?
Yes, one quote reflects on what the speaker's material might have looked like if they'd started earlier, mentioning 'Damsels in Distress' as an example of the kind of comedy they were writing around that time. For more on accumulated experiences shaping a career, check out the Experiences page.

Other quotes trace how confidence and creative habits shift across a career, sometimes growing more constrained rather than freer with time. Continue with Experiences quotes or Experiencing quotes.