Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

Obviously you don't want to be anonymous, but you don't want everyone to know your life. ”

I don't know if bliss is possible and I've always thought that my best times will be later in life. ”

Now celebrity has taken on a holy status all of its own, and we look to the stars to provide us with the transcendental experience that was once achieved through religion. ”

What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice. ”

When nobody read, dyslexia wasn't a problem. When most people had to hunt, a minor genetic variation in your ability to focus attention was hardly a problem, and may even have been an advantage. When most people have to make it through high school, the same variation can become a genuinely life-altering disease. ”

Many philosophers say it's impossible to explain our conscious experience in scientific, biological terms at all. But that's not exactly true. Scientists have explained why we have certain experiences and not others. It's just that they haven't explained the special features of consciousness that philosophers care about. ”

What we want in students is creativity and a willingness to fail. I always say to students, 'If you've never at some point stayed up all night talking to your new boyfriend about the meaning of life instead of preparing for the test, then you're not really an intellectual.' ”

I love escaping into film, because everyday life I find quite troublesome. So any excuse to go into a cinema and say goodbye to the world for a couple of hours, or in a book or whatever, is great. ”

Humans have always used animals to depict ideas about themselves: ideas about their status, about their position in life and society and the world. ”

In my personal life, I'm hilarious! I was always a bit of a jokester. ”