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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.

It comes with experience and learning and knowing the game. It's not necessarily about sticking your chest out and saying, 'I'm tough.'

Quotes by Matt Barnes

I have been lucky to experience a lot of the spoils that can happen in a rock band. But being with the three guys in this band from such a young age, we aren't going to let any of the...

Quotes by Matt Bellamy

Getting on stage and performing and standing under lights is such an unsettling experience - in a good and bad way - but it's the only place I can go to feel comfortable.

Quotes by Matt Berninger

If you word-spot James Joyce, you'll miss the entire experience.

Quotes by Maryanne Wolf

I've seen so much good Tilly cosplay. I've seen a lot of Captain Killy. I've seen a Cadet Tilly with dreads. I've seen stuff - it's the most incredible experience, and I think I probably fangirl over the cosplayers more...

Quotes by Mary Wiseman

It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of what happened. We each have totally different ideas of what was said, what was intended, and...

Quotes by Marya Hornbacher

It has been an incredibly rewarding experience to work with so many dedicated SEC staff who strive every day to protect investors and ensure our markets operate with integrity.

Quotes by Mary Schapiro

I turn to poems to find spaces that might enlarge, rather than distill, experience.

Quotes by Mary Szybist

Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so...

Quotes by Mary Wesley

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

Quotes by Mary Pipher

Ron allowed us to see right away the private piece of a person about to become very public. I suspect we're going to see more of her very private world - Laura's private experience. I'm not sure yet how public...

Quotes by Mary McDonnell

With BSG, sci-fi is the human experience taken beyond the envelope. When I first became involved with the project, I knew that I would be able to play a human being for many years, exploring and reflecting on issues that...

Quotes by Mary McDonnell

Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.

Quotes by Mary McDonnell

Getting to know athletes from all over the planet is a big part of the Olympic experience.

Quotes by Mary Lou Retton

I don't have the experience of being in a war.

Quotes by Mary Gauthier

War is hell. Sending young people to conflicts that are unwinnable and unresolvable - it puts them in a position where they're going to suffer. And yet their experience is that they're proud of their service, and they should be....

Quotes by Mary Gauthier

I think it's a stereotype that soldiers don't talk, because my experience is that they will talk if they are met with empathy and no judgment.

Quotes by Mary Gauthier

I started my career in the private sector and then became U.S. attorney. I think I was a stronger U.S. attorney, and I frankly think I am a stronger Chair of the SEC, because of that experience.

Quotes by Mary Jo White

Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

Quotes by Mary Daly

Ulta is a great place for our vendor partners to experience growth.

Quotes by Mary Dillon

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.