Retirement Quotes - Page 23

• I'm really in retirement. My career is over. I'm just playing now and having a great time. I like to keep busy, and I'm doing what's fun for me.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Fun, Careers, Busy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you can deal with hot emotions, then you can study for the S.A.T. instead of watching television, and you can save more money for retirement. It's not just about marshmallows.

  Walter Mischel

  Hot, Television, Emotion

  "The Long Term Benefits Of Self Discipline" by Jonah Lehrer, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2009.

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• Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement.

  Edward Heath

  Vat, Firsts, Ruined

  "'Whatever the lady does is wrong'". www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2005.

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• The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing at you.

  Phyllis Diller

  Real, Golf, Laughing

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• Along with my retirement from chess analytical work seems to have gone too.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Analysis, Gone, Chess

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• Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.

  Peter Drucker

  Teacher, Teaching, Average

  Peter Drucker (2017). “The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society”, p.310, Routledge

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• Steve Forman strafes the south Florida scene with Boca Knights, an outrageously funny mystery novel with a raft of offbeat characters and prose that moves trippingly off the pen. His main man, Eddie Perlmutter, ex-Boston cop attempting semi-retirement in Boca Raton like a fish trying to retire out of the water, is a character for the ages. Carl Hiaasen, watch your back.

  Douglas Preston

  Moving, Character, Boston

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• We must dress according to the dictates of fashion, make love whether we feel like it or not, kill in the name of our country, wish time away so that retirement comes more quickly, elect politicians, complain about the cost of living, change our hairstyle, criticize anyone who's different, go to a religious service and beg forgiveness for our sins and puff ourselves up with pride because we know the truth and despise the other tribe who worships a false god.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Country, Religious

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• When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Inspirational, Teacher, Judging

  Gerald Jampolsky (2009). “Good-Bye to Guilt: Releasing Fear Through Forgiveness”, p.138, Bantam

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• A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Teacher, Teaching, Individual

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 10, 1799.

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• Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Los Angeles Times Home Magazine, February 20, 1977.

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• We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Teacher, Hype, Deceit

  Evelyn Waugh (1968). “A Handful of Dust: Decline and Fall”

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• A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Education, Teacher, School

  Elbert Hubbard (1902). “Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings”

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• Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.

  Duke of Wellington

  Education, Teacher, Clever

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• There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

  Allan Bloom

  Teacher, Real, Teaching

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped.

  Thierry Henry

  Stopping, Retiring, Wanted

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• When I was younger, I thought about retiring.

  Tanya Tucker

  Funny Retirement, Retiring

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• And you can save more money for retirement. It’s not just about marshmallows.

  Walter Mischel

  More Money, Marshmallow

  "The Long Term Benefits Of Self Discipline" by Jonah Lehrer, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2009.

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• Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work.

  Mitch Daniels

  Age, Starting, Certain

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Pay, Mortgage, Loan

  "Will you save in the long run? Refinancing 101" by Barbara Corcoran, www.today.com. March 17, 2010.

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• No well-planned retirement should be without long term care insurance. It is the very cornerstone of retirement security.

  Suze Orman

  Long, Care, Should

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• When it comes to the mental world, when we design things like health care and retirement and stock markets, we somehow forget the idea that we are limited. I think that if we understood our cognitive limitations in the same way that we understand our physical limitations … we could design a better world.

  Dan Ariely

  Motivation, Inspiration, Thinking

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• The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.

  John Milton

  Summer, Plato, Long

  Paradise Regained bk. 4, l. 240 (1671)

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• Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and retirement home or a hunting and fishing cabin.

  John Paul Stevens

  Home, Vacation, Hunting

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• Better world. Better life for everybody, every worker. Poor kids oughta be able to go anyplace their brains will take them. Not where Daddy or Mommy's pocketbooks can send them. Everybody oughta have health care, everybody oughta have some retirement security, every American. Every one. Everybody oughta have a decent good job. That's what I believe in, and that's what I fight every day to try to achieve.

  Richard Trumka

  Jobs, Believe, Kids

  "Richard Trumka, American". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 21, 2011.

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