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Quotes About Transition

I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else.
~ John Polkinghorne
America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.
~ Claire Wolfe
I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.
~ Bo Jackson
I believe there are two periods in life, one for the bike, the other for becoming active on one's work.
~ Bernard Hinault
So while you're an athlete, and you have that platform, what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible, because there's going to be life after sports.
~ Stedman Graham
When some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference.
~ Kin Hubbard
Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever."
~ Gene Perret
Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.
~ Dirk Benedict
I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.
~ David Bowie
I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting.
~ Sasha Alexander
I left my marriage knowing I'd have to work. I have.
~ Sarah Ferguson
We're still at the beginning of a major transition in how people communicate and work together.
~ Stewart Butterfield
All I have to do is to work on transition and technique.
~ Usain Bolt
I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.
~ Christopher Love
So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.
~ Elizabeth Moon
After you get a job and before you have to do it. Nothing beats that.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.
~ Robert Rodriguez
Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.
~ Jim Hodges
Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity to seek meaningful work at different stages of our own deepening humanity.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
~ Biz Stone
Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work.
~ Charlie Gehringer
Actors never retire, they just get less and less work.
~ Desmond Llewelyn
If a train stops at a train station, what do you think happens at a work station?
~ Hal Varian
You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your way out of it, picking up someone else's style, their flavor. It takes a bit of time.
~ Janet Jackson