John Polkinghorne Quotes

I completely believe that I will produce my best work and my best work will come in my thirties.

Speaking personally, I didn't think 40 would be a big issue, and I don't think I have issues about age, but there are naturally some big questions that come up at that point in your life.

I didn't plan to be a director until I was 35. For years I wanted to do anything but!

Fifty is the new forty. I always thought my best work would come in the years forty to sixty, if I was fortunate enough to hang around - and it is hard to stick around.

I don't see myself in politics at 51. I definitely want to do something else.

I am a lucky man because when I was young, I wanted to be a footballer. Suddenly, around 30 years old, I thought, 'I want to try to be a manager because it's different.'

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.

I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

When I retired from the circus at the grand old age of 11, my parents thought it would be best to focus more on the challenges ahead, and so I started at Methodist College Belfast.

After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn't want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn't think I would stop acting, but I didn't want to be seen.

I had a nutty career. I was living in New York. Then I got to an age where my friends and sister were having children, and I started to think I needed to orient myself towards a world where it could happen.

The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.

I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

I'm thinking of slowing down on modeling and branching out to other things. I want to pursue some new and old dreams and start making them happen.

I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that.

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

I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult.

I don't want to think of life after competing. But if I were to do anything else I'd go down the psychology route. That's what interests me.

A very close friend of mine keeps reminding me that since about the age of 50, I've been saying, 'I'm finished. I haven't got another one in me.' But somehow you do.

I told myself I'd stay in until I reached major, and then go on and do something else.

I remember thinking, when I was in my early 30s, that this is the best age to be, and I still believe your 30s are a wonderful time.

The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it.

I've never been someone who's very prone to boredom. I don't know, boredom seems like something you should grow out of at about 15 or 16. There's so much that needs to be done.