Quotes About Longevity

My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can.

The work needs to have a certain longevity. It lasts longer than we do.

It's up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive during a work life that may span some 50 years.

If it takes a hundred years, it will be a pity, but I will not cease to work for it as long as I live.

So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity

I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.

I didn't get playing professional golf until I was 25 years old. And I always said that if I could make it work, I would play as long as I could walk.

I don't work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy.

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.

To buy an Apple product is to bet on the longevity of the closed system to which we've committed ourselves. And that system is embodied - through marketing as much as talent - by Steve Jobs.

Trying to take the credit for Jamie Carragher and Steven Gerrard, who had been at the club since they were eight. Can you believe it? I can't.

I've been a huge fan of Steven Bochco's for over two decades.

If you stick around long enough, you're going to become fashionable eventually.

It's not a sprinter's approach. It's more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it.

The things that make me angry still make me angry. George Carlin is 67, and he's still as funny as he's ever been, and he's still angry. And that makes me feel good, because I feel like if I stick around long enough, I'll still be able to work.

My goal is to get another 30 years out of this business. So I need to figure out the fuel to do that. And so far, I think it's respect and quality and company, not celebrity or box office or stardom. It's not a sprinter's approach. It's more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it.

I'm going to be 80, walking with a stick down the runway.

If you stick around long enough and you do enough of the right things, you get seen in a largely positive light.

The artists who stick around for a while are the ones who go, 'Oh, that's cool, never thought of that. Ought to do that.'

I've been in the business 60 years, and it's taken me this long to play a scene with a monkey. That's what happens if you stick around.

I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.

I've learned that sticking around counts for something.

Any artist who sticks around in the public awareness for more than 20 years usually has something unique to say.

Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.