"If you start thinking about retirement in six months' time, you're already there."

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Brian O'Driscoll

#Retirement Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Six Months Quotes

“Itâ€™s best not to experiment on yourself. Bacon practically froze himself to death in one of his experiments and died of pneumonia.â€ {Right! Bacon must be heated. Knew that already, but thanks for the reminder.}”
“When you stop to examine the way in which our words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard-put to it to survive the disaster of their slobbery origins.”
“There's no photo-shoot academy. If there was, I'd probably be kicked out.”
“If you believe you're right...stand up and fight for your place in the sun. If you believe you can do it, hang in for the whole 15 rounds because even if you don't win, you will have earned the respect of everyone in the fight, including yourself, and in that sense you will have prevailed.”
“We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.”
“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.”
“Just as an unbalanced mind can accumulate stresses that can grow and take on a life of their own, so little decisions of our modern life can accumulate to the point where our society finds itself bombing other people for their oil, or supporting dictators who torture whole populations - all so that our unbalanced interests might be served.”
“The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling with hands clasped that we might act with restraint, that we might leave room for the life that is destined to come. To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle. Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace. Wild mercy is in our hands.”

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