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Quotes About Retiring

I have been thinking quite a lot about retiring... it is getting very difficult to be both a player and a manager.
~ Gianluca Vialli
Introverts listen better, they assess risks more carefully, they can be wiser managers. It's not for nothing that the Silicon Valley billionaires are so often the retiring types.
~ Jeffrey Kluger
For the retiring of the mind within itself is the state which is most susceptible of divine influxions; save that it is accompanied in this case with a fervency and elevation (which the ancients noted by fury), and not with a repose and quiet, as it is in the other.
~ bacon francis xiii
The media that's having this hysterical reaction to James Mattis retiring is the same media in many cases, the same politicians in many cases, who cheered our nation into a war in Iraq that turned out to be a catastrophe.
~ Stephen Miller
Everybody remarked that the retiring managers looked cheerful, as is the Paris way. None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom or indifference over his inward joy.
~ Gaston Leroux
All feeling of shame rests upon isolation of the individual; it arises whenever stress is laid upon the ego , whenever the attention of a circle is drawn to such an individual — in reality or only in his imagination —which at the same time is felt to be in some way incongruous. For that reason retiring and weak natures particularly incline to feelings of shame.
~ Georg Simmel
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
~ Samuel Johnson
I'm just happy as a lark having a good health. People say are you thinking about retiring, I don't have time to think about retiring.
~ Betty White
I was serious about retiring the first time, but the first week I was home my wife had SO many chores to do I went back.
~ Brett Favre
That's one reason India is an attractive proposition for retiring. Servants are much more reasonable than in England. It's not exploitation so long as you pay a proper salary.
~ Miriam Margolyes
I think it is very good for the country, for the world, and especially for the Democrats that Harry Reid is retiring.
~ Dana Perino
Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others retiring.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
He said he was thinking about retiring from the boxing ring and devoting his life to traveling and "seeking a peaceful, workable solution to the race problem.
~ Jonathan Eig
In the evening I spray my eyes with plant milk before retiring; this lubricates my blinking apparatus during sleep, throwing more light into my dreams, though I'm not much of a believer in the imagination.
~ Ben Marcus
A hedge fund manager whose clients demand monthly performance reports has different needs than any individual investors with a 20-year time horizon. The needs of that long-term investor differ markedly from someone who is retiring in three years.
~ Barry Ritholtz
I had every intention of retiring. While I've had the honor and the pleasure of being in a few WrestleManias, I never thought I'd be in a WrestleMania again.
~ Montel Vontavious Porter
I was very quiet, very shy and docile.
~ Ang Lee
I'm painfully shy.
~ Lindy Booth
I'm naturally a shy, quiet person.
~ Kevin Kwan
I'm quite a shy person.
~ Bobby Deol
I am a shy person.
~ Perfume Genius
Today, Medicare provides health insurance to about 40 million seniors and disabled individuals each year. The number is only expected to grow as the baby boomers begin retiring.
~ Jim Bunning
Upon retiring, sleep as if you had entered your last sleep. Upon awakening, leave your bed behind you instantly as if you had cast away a pair of old shoes.
~ Soyen Shaku
Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgement and execution of business.
~ Francis Bacon