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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 own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.

Quotes by Jack Markell

As one of the first employees at a small cellular phone start-up called Nextel, I gained firsthand experience in how a business grows from an idea to a company that, at its peak, employed many thousands.

Quotes by Jack Markell

My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.

Quotes by Jack Kevorkian

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the...

Quotes by Jack Kevorkian

Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.

Quotes by Jack Kingston

In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate and mindful toward yourself.

Quotes by Jack Kornfield

Festivals are the best because you can't control anything, and for a control freak like me, that's a wonderful experience.

Quotes by Jack Garratt

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

Quotes by Jack Hanna

When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.

Quotes by Jack Henry Abbott

This girl wanted me to experience something I'd never experienced. She tried three times to get me high. Finally it worked, and I had the most incredible sex I'd ever had.

Quotes by Jack Herer

Just to be in the locker room with the NHL players, go out to dinner with them, hang out with them. I feel like it was an invaluable experience and kind of like going to Harvard law school, I guess,...

Quotes by Jack Hughes

You can't get a job without experience and you can't get experience until you have a job. Once you solve that problem you are home free.

Quotes by Jack Buck

I've been with clubs who won the league championships in Holland and England, which was brilliant, and to win the Champions League with Manchester United was an amazing experience.

Quotes by Jaap Stam

The urge to push the concept of sex and sexuality into the fringes of the human experience is so bizarre to me.

Quotes by Jaboukie Young-White

To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.

Quotes by Jack Antonoff

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

Quotes by J. Paul Getty

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

Quotes by J. Paul Getty

Every person that's in the NBA should experience playing in New York at least once in their career.

Quotes by J. R. Smith

I don't often do a lot of that kind of research, but when it's something specific like 'Oz' - which I fortunately did not have a lot of experience with - I will. I read 'The Hot House,' about being...

Quotes by J. K. Simmons

I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It is their primary imaginative activity. Maybe that's an experience which is not so common any more...

Quotes by J. M. Coetzee

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.