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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.

With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way.

Quotes by Gus Van Sant

Through years of secret work, scientific and basic ground work was laid, in order to be ready again to work the German Armed Forces at the appointed hour, without loss of time or experience.

Quotes by Gustav Krupp

I did a show back when I was in high school - so I was about 17 - and it was the first time I was on stage. I never even thought about being an actor before that, but after...

Quotes by Guillermo Diaz

DVDs have their place, but the cinema is a tangible, emotional experience that I would hate my children not to have.

Quotes by Gurinder Chadha

I went through my adolescence having this revelatory experience - I can have any music I want, and I can get it immediately. For me and for a lot of people I know, there's this musical eclecticism that happened.

Quotes by Grimes

My one experience with Lollapalooza was in 2009 - it was actually the first music festival I've ever been to.

Quotes by GRiZ

The experience at the Masters was two years ago, and I am eager to win again this year so I can return to Augusta National in 2016.

Quotes by Guan Tianlang

The AAC at Royal Melbourne was a wonderful memory for me. I had a slightly disappointing finish, but I gained a lot of experience by playing in the last group.

Quotes by Guan Tianlang

The transition from tiny movies to less tiny movies to really big movies has been actually quite seamless in a lot of ways as far as my experience of acting in them.

Quotes by Greta Gerwig

From any traumatic injury, you're going to experience a lack of confidence. There's a whole process you have to go through to break free of that.

Quotes by Gretchen Bleiler

Meditation isn't necessarily this magical experience where we don't ever have thoughts.

Quotes by Gretchen Bleiler

I think one of the things I've learned is that the tone of an organization is set from the top down. And if you have men running an organization that want to honor women, that's a whole different experience than...

Quotes by Gretchen Carlson

Watching TV is companionable: you share an experience, you can comment on the action here and there for a bit of conversation... it's a way of showing someone that you want his or her company and engaging in a low-key,...

Quotes by Gretchen Rubin

It's a wonderful experience to look at our Earth.

Quotes by Gregory H. Johnson

Writing from a personal experience can bring about this emotion and power of emotion that can be instantly connected to the instrument, my voice.

Quotes by Gregory Porter

How can you sing a line like, 'I've fallen out of love' when you're 18? You need to experience something of life before you can sing it.

Quotes by Gregory Porter

Making a film is a very difficult thing to do, but the experience of 'Best F(r)iends' is a great memory.

Quotes by Greg Sestero

I think my initial view of it is that 'The Room' has succeeded in being the best bad movie because it's the most earnest. I feel like it's a film that comes from the heart, and somebody's really trying to...

Quotes by Greg Sestero

All experience is subjective.

Quotes by Gregory Bateson

Experience shows that if you put more ethicists on a problem, you can end up with more problems.

Quotes by Gregory Benford

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.