36 Quotes About Later-in-life

  • Author Felix Mendelssohn
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    No one can bar me from joyfully proceeding on what the great masters have left us; after all, to rediscover everything again, should be understood to be unfounded. But one should however proceed on merit, and not simply repeat wat was. All genius, sincere, deserves his place, even though maybe later in life.

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  • Author Jeffrey Dean Morgan
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    My kind of success has come a little bit later in life. I'm not 20 any more and these people I've been working with have been successful and good at what they do for a long time.

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  • Author Leigh Steinberg
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    I have to say that it was a very strange experience when, later in life, I represented Byron Scott and was negotiating with West - whose picture I used to have over my bed! That took some getting used to.

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  • Author William Shatner
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    Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.

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  • Author Twyla Tharp
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    Later in life, one of the compensations is gliding effortlessly into focus in a thing. Since it is who we are, anything that is not the focus or supportive thereof is just not us. Even outside issues, when they arise, are interesting in that they only help define the focus more clearly.

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  • Author Kit Williams
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    He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.

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