Kurt Elling Quotes

It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.

I'm totally convinced that the end of my football career is just the beginning of something I haven't even discovered yet.

Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.

If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.

I think that New York liberated me in the sense that I moved here when I was 18, so it was a fresh perspective on life. I had been living in L.A. my whole life and I had never lived anywhere else, so being away from family and really making a name for myself was huge for me.

Choices can be made again." -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)

There's a type of freedom that occurs when everything that you've believed in and worked for is shattered, because then you have the opportunity to rebuild and to put yourself back together in a new way.

I had a very colorless background, and when I left Ohio and moved to England, nobody knew who I was and I had a real freedom. I could be free to experiment and experience things and I liked that a lot.

In S Club I played a role in a band, but now I can go off and be me - My horizon's wide open now. It's scary and it's daunting, but it's an absolute thrill. I feel brand new!

I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did.

My father helped me leave. He said, 'It's all out there, it's not here.'

I found that a bit unfair. However, I did feel quite liberated when I left. I'm very grateful to the show - it revived a flagging career, but I'm glad to be away from it now.

I'm a beginning, not an end.

So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.

I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics.

After I quit dancing, I tried a lot of jobs. But I could always bake.

For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.

So many people think being single is the end of something, but it's really a beginning - a good beginning.

Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.

The happiest time in any man’s life is just after his first divorce.

In America, we can reinvent ourselves - we're encouraged to.

I was with the Steelers, and I got cut, and I remember, when I left, I was relieved.