Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

I have never thought of my life as being an enigma. ”

As a kid, I was pretty obsessed with dinosaurs and the day that my parents took me to Dinosaur National Park, I didn't think life could get any better. ”

I think we need to care about the metrics of success in life, and I'm a pretty competitive person. ”

I've always been aware of both how extraordinarily normal and how extraordinarily extraordinary my life has been. It's always been important, first to my parents when I was younger, and now very much to me, to live in the world. I would never want to live in a cloister. ”

Running is the one part of my life in which I fundamentally feel like the observer instead of the observed. ”

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye. ”

I think about how best to live my grandmother's twin mantras that 'Life is not a dress rehearsal' and 'Life is not about what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you.' ”

My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that 'life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you.' She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life. ”

For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life. ”

I hadn't planned on or expected to have a public dimension in my life. ”