Lee Johnson famous quotes

Just because society has done things the same way for many years, that's no reason to continue doing them. Women will be the harbingers of retirement transformations going forward and will be more creative and humanistic in the process.
-- Lee Johnson

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Your retirement identity is of a successful person who creatively and efficiently manages your money and lifestyle to adapt to the ever changing economic and personal conditions of our time.
-- Lee Johnson

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The more emotional investment we put into the people around us, the more quality of life and longevity surrounds us.
-- Lee Johnson

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The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.

I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

Speaking of sleeping bags, has anything ever had a less creative name?

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.