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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.

For me and my films, I want my audience to experience cinema in its full glory. It's not just visual, it's audio as well. It's emotional, and I want you to be engaged with not just the scene but with...

Quotes by James Wan

Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience.

Quotes by James Weldon Johnson

I believe and still believe that the Chinese government puts great weight on the experience of the Bank in terms of development.

Quotes by James Wolfensohn

I like to work with it so that you feel it physically, so you feel the presence of light inhabiting a space. My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It...

Quotes by James Turrell

The works of previous artists have come from their own experiences or insights but haven't given the experience itself. They had set themselves up as a sort of interpreter to the layman... Our interest is in a form where you...

Quotes by James Turrell

It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience).

Quotes by James Schuyler

Mars would seem, to me, to be the best place to focus our collective effort as a species... I think people would like to experience something sort of hopeful in terms of where we go next... as a species.

Quotes by James Ransone

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Quotes by James Russell Lowell

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

Quotes by James Russell Lowell

You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable.

Quotes by James Salter

I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.

Quotes by James Nachtwey

What I have experienced, and experienced repeatedly, is the silence of God. For many years, this was a distressing matter for me. I did not consider it an experience, but the absence of an experience.

Quotes by James P. Carse

Collaboration is something I missed at one point in The Shins. I really wanted to have that experience again, you know, not having everything rely on me. I wanted to have a partner.

Quotes by James Mercer

I was an 18-year-old lad playing in a Scottish League Cup final at Hampden in front of 60,000 against Celtic. That's an experience I will never forget.

Quotes by James Maddison

Dele Alli is probably the perfect example. He played loads of games for MK Dons at a young age. He got a move and kicked on from there because he had that experience behind him.

Quotes by James Maddison

I always think that the deal, once I do the script, sort of the experience I go through writing, which is everything you can imagine, but I always think it's the one thing I can do when I'm directing is...

Quotes by James L. Brooks

I love bingeing. 'The Wire' was my first binge, and the thing about bingeing is, when you are doing four or five hours a day for a number of days, it becomes a literary experience, closer to reading.

Quotes by James L. Brooks

In my mind, if you write a comedy where human beings experience pain, you're just being realistic.

Quotes by James L. Brooks

The German experience, as you can see, did move me very much. Seeing that terrible destruction and seeing the miserable state of the people, how they had been beaten down by the war through no fault of their own probably.

Quotes by James Laughlin

So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before....

Quotes by James Iha

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.