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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.

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.

Quotes by Humphrey Bogart

The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience.

Quotes by Hugh Mackay

In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite.

Quotes by Hugh Dancy

The little song and dance number at the end - that's me, my voice, howling out. It was a new experience for me. I've never sung before and I've certainly never sung on screen. I think I sung on stage...

Quotes by Hugh Dancy

But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

Quotes by Hugh Grant

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.

Quotes by Hu Shih

If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.

Quotes by Hudson Taylor

My first score for 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy, 'The Fellowship of the Ring,' was the beginning of my journey into the world of Tolkien, and I will always hold a special fondness for the music and the experience.

Quotes by Howard Shore

You will see a 3-D movie in a movie theater for the shared experience of it - or for a date, and so on. You don't all sit at home getting your entertainment in a vacuum.

Quotes by Howard Stringer

The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.

Quotes by Howie Mandel

We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience.

Quotes by Howie Mandel

Regardless of what I do, whether I write a book or whether I act or whether I host, I'll always do stand-up comedy because those moments, that's what I crave. If I do something funny, and I hear a crowd...

Quotes by Howie Mandel

It's a surreal experience filming promotion with Ryan Seacrest and meeting Top 40 pop artists.

Quotes by Hozier

Rejection is the one constant of human experience.

Quotes by Howard Jacobson

Starbucks is committed to evolving and enhancing our customer experience with innovative and wholesome food offerings.

Quotes by Howard Schultz

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Quotes by Hosea Ballou

Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.

Quotes by Howard Barker

The network shows tend to be run, in general, in my experience, by committee, and it's hard for actors and writers to do their jobs.

Quotes by Hope Davis

I try to be in the office as much as possible to get the full experience working with volunteers, making phone calls, putting out signs - things that the communications director probably normally wouldn't do.

Quotes by Hope Hicks

I played in Europe and it was a great experience, not just because of my team-mates and the coaches we had, but from the fans and the city itself - I played in Gothenburg and I played in Lyon and...

Quotes by Hope Solo

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.