Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life. ”

You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia. ”

Life on our planet has been a constant series of cataclysmic events, and we are more suitable for extinction than a trilobite or a reptile. So we will vanish. There's no doubt in my heart. ”

Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements. ”

From 1949 to 1953, I studied towards the diploma in Natural Sciences at the Swiss Polytechnical School in Zurich. It is in the last year of this study that I made my first contacts with fundamental research, when working on the isolation and characterization of a new isomer of Cl34 with a half-life of 1.5 seconds. ”

I had a brief experience in the food industry. I was a bus boy in a Mexican restaurant in Arizona, scraping re-fried beans off people's plates. It teaches you a bit of humility and the importance of a good deodorant. ”

Prison has a universal fascination. It's a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind bars. ”

I wouldn't have changed a thing in my past. Life is like dominoes: if you move one, it wouldn't fall the right way. ”

I enjoy leading a well-rounded life. Believe me, I don't take it for granted. ”

Aging gracefully means being flexible, being open, allowing change, enjoying change and loving yourself. ”