Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment. ”

The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own. ”

I am more interested in experiencing life than in analyzing it. ”

I've never allowed my political life, or my life as a basketball player, to define the totality of my humanity or my personality. ”

I've got a life, you know, take me in the totality of my actions and I'll tell you, I will stand with my record. ”

In 1994 I was doing a two-hander with Sean Lock in Edinburgh and there were more people in the cast than the audience. It was pretty grim, quite a chastening experience. ”

If you become famous but haven't actually achieved anything, then your life has no real meaning - unless you're spectacularly shallow. ”

I've always been envious of certainty, of people who always seemed to have a plan for their lives. ”

I think that generally there's a pressure to live the best life you can. ”

Fatherhood made everything more straightforward. I was relieved that no longer did I have to agonise over what meaning I had in my life. ”