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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've spent months living in Africa and India. So it's not like I was sheltered when I started living in America. But my family laughed when they heard I was going to be in 'Transformers.' I learned a lot and...

Quotes by Isabel Lucas

We explore astronomical life through medicate experience, and we live life through love and ardvarks.

Quotes by Isabel Yosito

A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.

Quotes by Isabella Bird

Leh has few of what Europeans regard as travelling necessaries. The brick tea which I purchased from a Lhassa trader was disgusting. I afterwards understood that blood is used in making up the blocks. The flour was gritty, and a...

Quotes by Isabella Bird

Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item.

Quotes by Isaac Marion

Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn't work out how I hoped, oh well - there's another notch on my experience belt.

Quotes by Isaac Marion

Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful.

Quotes by Irvin D. Yalom

Art gives us an opportunity to not have to leave or go somewhere or do something to experience the magic in our lives. It actually gets us to sit back and be where we are and recognize we're already magical.

Quotes by Irvin Mayfield

When the first million came in, I felt, 'My God, now I'm really independent.' That was a fantastic experience.

Quotes by Ingvar Kamprad

I think it's interesting: What is the generational effect of the experience of being a gay person in America? For my generation, it was very difficult.

Quotes by Ira Sachs

I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.

Quotes by Ingmar Bergman

I was booed at the premiere of 'Miss Julie,' a remarkably stimulating experience.

Quotes by Ingmar Bergman

Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for...

Quotes by Ingrid Newkirk

If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.

Quotes by Imran Khan

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

Quotes by Imran Khan

I am enjoying the experience of working with Mishra. For me, he is a world-class spinner.

Quotes by Imran Tahir

I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was...

Quotes by Imre Kertesz

The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year...

Quotes by Imre Kertesz

With 'Imposters,' I finally felt I had gotten something I could sink my teeth into. It's a dream come true, and I couldn't ask for a more fulfilling and challenging experience. It was something I didn't expect. A real surprise.

Quotes by Inbar Lavi

I keep saying this, and I truly mean this: I think that when you experience true love, it never really goes away.

Quotes by Inbar Lavi

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.