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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.

My mother passed away when I was 14, so there were certain things I missed in terms of upbringing. Maybe my mother would have said, 'You have to get a real job.' I don't know because I didn't have that...

Quotes by Joie Lee

I've been acting since I was six. I actually played a boy when I was six in 'Tommy.' I played Tommy and they put a wig on me. They put up my hair and put this little boy wig on...

Quotes by JoJo

I never really had experienced hate in school with girls and boys. What I do experience is social media, and so every day, people comment, 'You're fat, you're ugly, you're rude, you're all this stuff,' and I just don't like...

Quotes by JoJo Siwa

To deal with radicalism and extremism, we need to deal with economic inequality. This is what I learned from my experience in Solo and then in Jakarta.

Quotes by Joko Widodo

We're still growing into that place of higher consciousness; we are becoming a global conscience. The idea is to unravel the onion and let go of the ego and evolve to that place where you perceive everything to be a...

Quotes by Jon Anderson

Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn to accept rejection, learn to meet new people, learn to work with people and find common ground. That's the way you sell houses......

Quotes by Johnny Isakson

My experience tells me, unfortunately, that so many people ask the question about 'The Smiths' reforming without really caring about the answer. They just really want to ask the question.

Quotes by Johnny Marr

Lyft treats people better than competition. So whether that's drivers or passengers, that goes into the car experience. That's why more and more people are choosing Lyft.

Quotes by John Zimmer

The main difference to me with Lyft is the sense of community and social experience. The pink mustache, fist bump and strict screening have fostered a strong sense of community with many stories of new friends, discovered jobs, and even...

Quotes by John Zimmer

That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you get your head down and start to read books, you can...

Quotes by Johnny Ball

It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty.

Quotes by Johnny Depp

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

Quotes by John Wooden

My experience has been that actors always want to be directed.

Quotes by John Wells

Over the near term there is clearly the opportunity to work with Microsoft to do to a better job of creating a more secure Windows experience for users around the world.

Quotes by John W. Thompson

I don't think there is any franchise more powerful than ours around securing the consumer experience and we will not concede that to anyone including Microsoft.

Quotes by John W. Thompson

A first preview is not exactly a pleasant experience for directors and actors. You're never as raw as when the audience first comes in.

Quotes by John Tiffany

Playing a bad guy is always a freeing experience, because you don't have the same envelope of restrictions as you have playing a good guy. Good guys restrain themselves; they kind of have their moral fiber cut out for them...

Quotes by John Travolta

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

Quotes by John Updike

Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into...

Quotes by John Thorn

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Quotes by John Stuart Mill

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.