Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

Making a movie is a little bit like high school. Because everybody lives together, and you see each other every day, and word travels fast around there. ”

I was very excited about a currency that was not controlled by a central government, that could be a free market currency. That was all the incentive I needed to dedicate my life to it. ”

Troops fighting for their lives should not have to ask a lawyer sitting in air conditioning 500 miles away for permission to drop a bomb. ”

My goal is to produce as rich and historical an experience for the reader as I possibly can, to the point where when somebody finishes reading the book, he or she emerges from it with a sense of having lived in the past. ”

I had a nice part at big newspapers, small newspapers, and then I went to a very big newspaper - 'The Wall Street Journal.' I wrote longer pieces, and I got tired of working so hard on stories that had a shelf life of essentially one day. So then I started working on longer magazine pieces and realized then that you might as well be writing a book. ”

My life! That's a long story, too. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, like half of the world, I think. ”

I have found from experience that it is often interesting and useful to start from the edges and work inward - another flaw of mine. I seldom approach things directly. I would have made a great moth. ”

I grew up in Sudan and Kenya, and lived in both the rural and urban centers of both countries throughout my life. ”

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age. ”

He who is ashamed would like to force the world not to look at him, not to notice his exposure. He would like to destroy the eyes of the world. ”