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Retiring Quotes

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: aggravating, annoy, annoying, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, aplomb, assertive, assertiveness, assured, at-ease, bashful, bashfulness, boldness, bothersome, can-do, confident, coolheaded, courage, coyness, cursed, demureness, diffidence, diffident, embarrassed, embarrassment, exasperating, extrovert, extroverted, farouche, funny, galling, girl, girls, hilarious, humor, humorous, humour, imperturbable, infuriating, inhibited, insecure, introversion, introvert, introverted, irksome, irritate, irritating, irritation, joke, jokes, lack-of-confidence, levelheaded, maddening, man, men, mettle, mousiness, mousy, nerve, nervous, nettlesome, obnoxious, pesky, phlegm, phlegmatic, poise, poised, positive, quotations, quotes, repressed, reserve, reserved, reservedness, reticence, reticent, retiring, satire, self-assurance, self-assured, self-confidence, self-confident, self-conscious, self-consciousness, self-effacing, self-possessed, self-possession, self-reliant, sheepish, sheepishness, shy, shyness, timid, timidity, timidness, timorous, timorousness, tiresome, together, troublesome, trying, unconfident, unperturbed, unruffled, vexatious, vexing, withdrawn
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Núria Añó
“The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.”
― Núria Añó
tags: age, ageing, aging, aging-gracefully, economy, getting-older, growing-old, humor, inevitability, irony-of-life, job, jobs, life, living, mathematics, middle-age, nuria-ano, old-age, old-aged, old-people, retired, retiring, work, worker, workers, working-class, works
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Stephen Richards
“The good thing about being old is not being young.”
― Stephen Richards
tags: age, ageism, old, old-age, old-aged, old-people, retired, retiring, stephen-richards, stephen-richards-self-help
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: alcohol, alcohol-abuse, alcohol-addiction, alcoholic, alcoholics-anonymous, alcoholism, bashful, diffident, embarrassed, escape, evade, farouche, inhibited, insecure, introverted, mousy, nervous, opium, opium-of-the-people, pain, problem, problems, repressed, reserved, reticent, retiring, self-consciousness, self-effacing, sheepish, shy, shyness, suffering, timid, timorous, unconfident, vehicle, vehicles, withdrawn
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Morton Shaevitz
“You might be on the back nine of life, but it's good to finish strong.”
― Morton Shaevitz, Refire! Don't Retire: Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life
tags: aging-well, getting-older, golf, retirement, retiring
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Núria Añó
“Europe, the land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. The land where the economy gets to stagger all over the continent.”
― Núria Añó
tags: age, ageing, aging, aging-gracefully, brexit, continent, economy, europe, european-economic-area, european-union, europeans, getting-older, growing-old, humor, inevitability, irony-of-life, job, jobs, life, living, mathematics, middle-age, nuria-ano, old-age, old-aged, old-people, retired, retiring, staggering, staggering-society, work, worker, workers, working-class, works
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Richard L. Ratliff
“Downsizing just getting rid of junk
Those things you collected over a lifetime
But when your gone someone must sort through”
― Richard L. Ratliff
tags: cleaning-closets, downsizing, moving, retiring
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“One of the most difficult decisions that any professional person will ever face is when to retire from their chosen field. Professional ballplayers occasionally hang on until their performance becomes pitiful. It is sad to witness a shell of a former athletic star humble themselves before a crowd. After attaining a level of proficiency through devotion of time and labor, the prospect of retiring from the field of competition creates a lifestyle crisis and frequently triggers depression when the retired professional suffers from diminished ego gratification. Astute professionals realize it is better to withdraw from competition before their diminishing level of performance becomes pitiable. False pride is contemptible because it can seduce a person to continue to remain in any field longer than pragmatic.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
tags: career, career-quotes, retire, retired, retirement, retirement-career, retirement-planning, retiring
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Janet Blaser
“Hola & hello! I'm happy to answer any questions you might have - about the book or moving to Mexico.”
― Janet Blaser, Why We Left An Anthology of American Women Expats
tags: expats-adventure, mexico, political, retiring, women
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Andre Agassi
“Many of you, I'm sure, don't like your jobs. But imagine if someone told you right now that your story about me would be your last. After this, you'll never be able to write another word for as long as you live. How would you feel?”
― Andre Agassi, Open
tags: end-of-career, retiring, the-end
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Prince Harry
“I recalled one recent chat, just me and Grandpa, not long after he'd turned ninety-seven. He was thinking about the end. He was no longer capable of pursuing his passions, he said. And yet the thing he missed most was work. Without work, he said, everything crumbles.”
― Prince Harry, Spare
tags: aging, retiring
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