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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 didn't particularly aim to be a Shakespeare actor, but I suppose I had a certain gift or it; I certainly got offered lots of it. I liked Complicite and Shared Experience and Kick Theatre, and all the small theatre...

Quotes by Mark Rylance

I've felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll or investing on Wall Street. When economics is taught by pure academics, watch out.

Quotes by Mark Skousen

Playing for the first time in Russia was wonderful, and it's a huge perk of the job to get to experience those different cultures.

Quotes by Mark Pontius

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

Quotes by Mark Poster

Actually, the British boarding school experience turns out to be not that exotic.

Quotes by Mark Romanek

I always wanted to be a feature filmmaker and tried to treat that experience as some sort of elite film school where I could learn the craft, and got paid to learn the craft.

Quotes by Mark Romanek

What might be happening in human beings who experience near death is that they are getting cold, but before they get so cold that they would die, they're actually diminishing their oxygen consumption in a way that is unknown. And...

Quotes by Mark Roth

I didn't go to a conservatoire, and I have certain low opinions of certain aspects of the conservatory experience.

Quotes by Mark Morris

I've been lucky enough to experience some big tournaments at Under-21 level and would love to be part of a World Cup in England.

Quotes by Mark Noble

I like to bet on people, especially those who have taken risks and failed in some way, because they have more real-world experience. And they're humble.

Quotes by Mark Pincus

I still believe that we can offer you a much deeper, more engaging, more compelling play experience on a PC than we can on a mobile device, but one can enhance the other, and one can expand the other. I...

Quotes by Mark Pincus

The art of it is, the more we can bring complex game mechanics to a mass market, the more engaging the games will be. But at the same time, we have to simplify everything: the mass market has a lower...

Quotes by Mark Pincus

Honestly, all of 'Breaking Bad' was the best television experience of my entire life - the writing, the crew, the other actors.

Quotes by Mark Margolis

If a fan approaches me and I feel like they have some kind of agenda, I'm probably gonna get real closed-off and not talk to them. But if I feel a connection with someone, or if I feel a certain...

Quotes by Mark Kozelek

I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to.

Quotes by Mark Hoppus

I had no direct experience of a relegation scrap, but with Wales, I never had the luxury of being allowed to lose games. I was under pressure to win even the friendlies.

Quotes by Mark Hughes

I always believe that my greatest audience will come from 70-year-old Jewish men and Jewish women, but that's me from my experience of going to High Holiday services and being adored by the women with free candy in the back.

Quotes by Mark Feuerstein

I hope that they enjoy the movie. Don't be critical. Don't expect to get the same feelings you got when you watched the series when you were 10 years old. Let your kids see it and experience it on their...

Quotes by Mark Goddard

Why do people who consider themselves good communicators often fail to actually hear each other? Often it's due to a mismatch of styles: To someone who prefers to vent, someone who prefers to explain seems patronizing; explainers experience venters as...

Quotes by Mark Goulston

When you're improvising, it's fun to find something that you can lean on that is similar to your life experience. In my opinion, that's very helpful.

Quotes by Mark Duplass

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.