John Green Quotes

And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get nice house.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age.

I haven't really made plans for the future; I'm just enjoying the moment, going with the flow. I haven't really had time to mortify myself thinking about the future.

I had a plan ever since I was nine years old, when I said "Mama, I'm a buy you a nice house and pretty dresses." That was the plan, that was my goal.

A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.

I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives. I think it's criminal - child abuse - that they're not told to do this [in school]. Right now it's just sex education and putting condoms on bananas. Girls should be asked to think about what they want in their lives when they're 50, 60 and 70.

I always say, thank god I have this job or I don't know what I'd be doing. It'd be sad. I've always felt like I have been trying to brand a world for a quite a long time. You know what though, I feel no different. I feel like I'm doing the exact same thing I did in high school. Only I have more people helping me out now. And we have to take it all the way.

I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.

Some people are very ambitious and plan their whole careers, but I am not that kind of a person.

I'm just trying to diversify my portfolio and put myself in a position so when I do retire, the options are limitless.

To be honest, I'm not the kind of guy to think about the future in the long term.

I've been working on this career path of mine since I was three years old.

There are players who tend not to look at the money short-term: they have a bigger plan.

Like individuals in all walks of life, footballers want stability and we have families to look after.

My goal is to keep going out there and defending my belt and stacking up pay cheques to set myself up for the future.

I just wanted to set myself up for life, and that degree from Villanova, I thought, is very special.

You see these people that work their whole life and when they stop working, they stop living. Not me.

I'm just trying to better myself and work on my degree and set something up for the future of my family.

I am trying to make sure that I don't spend on ridiculous things, so that after all this YouTube thing goes, I'm not left there, like, 'Uh oh, I have nothing.'

I used to, in the summertime, spend so much money doing a lot of fun stuff. Now, I'm actually consciously trying to save so we can live how we want to live after basketball. I've even sold a few things.

I hope my career will be long-term. It's not something I'm taking for granted, but we try to plan that way.

When I plan ahead, I don't just plan what I'm doing tomorrow. I also plan what I'm doing five years from now.

Snowboarding is a huge part of my life, but I also feel like it's important to have a plan B or a back-up plan for after my career because I can't snowboard for my whole life competitively.

One is only really inwardly comfortable, so to speak, after one's life has assumed some sort of shape. Not just a routine, like studying or a job or being a housewife, but something more complete than all those, which would include goals set by oneself and a circle of life-time type friends. I think this is one of the hardest things to achieve, in fact often just trying doesn't achieve it but rather it seems to develop almost by accident.