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" If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment. "

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" Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. "

Albert Einstein

" In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame. "

" The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. "

" In youth we learn; in age we understand. "

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

" Past middle age, some friends suggested that I should have my eyebags removed, the deepening creases on my face stretched. I often examined my face in the mirror, imagining how I'd look if I followed the suggestion. I decided to retain the old mug. I was too familiar and comfortable with it. And the final hindrance: the cost. "

" There's a vintage which comes with age and experience. "

" Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement. "

" Art in the age of the digital image is completely different from experiencing art in physical form. "

" My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist. "

" I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world. "

" I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that. "

" You start at a young age, going on auditions, and you think you did a good job and expect to get that role, and you don't, and it's a letdown, a disappointment. So you tell yourself to just do the work and disconnect, because you have no control over the outcome. "

Michael B. Jordan

" The ultimate lesson is that there is no immunity, no matter our age or the size of our retirement account, from going through constant cycles of integration and disintegration in which we are humbled and hopefully set to rights with the world again. "

" You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. "

Self-Confidence

" One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely because he preferred experiment to ideology. "

" At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. "

" My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July. "

" Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. "

" With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal. "

" Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. "

" If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex. "

" I was depressed at a very young age - mental illness runs in my family, especially on the female side. "

" If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch. "

Marshall McLuhan

" Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions. "

" People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me. "

" Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength. "

" Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age. "

" The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. "