Timothy Leary Quotes

You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

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

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 feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind.

There is always a time to move on.

Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?

You have to decide when it is time to move on.

At a certain point, the graduate school thing didn't work out, and that meant I was liberated.

Irrespective of our past, we need to look forward.

My decision to leave Impact had nothing to with their business or finances and everything with me wanting to challenge myself to something new.

I don't live that life anymore, it's as simple as that.

In 10 years, I don't really know what I'll be, and I like not having any idea. I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

It's true. In America, you can reinvent yourself at any turn. And, you know, if things aren't going well for you in life, everyone says, change, become someone different.

I'd been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn't see my way out. So I picked myself up one day about 15 years ago and moved where I didn't know anyone.

I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did.

I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.

It was fun being an actor, but by the time college rolled around, I was ready to try some new things. By the time I graduated, I realized I enjoyed having a normal life and I never went back.

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

A lot of people want to know why did I leave the BBC: did I have an argument with them? No! I had 13 wonderful years. But it was time. Since I left university, I'd only ever worked for the BBC. It was simply time.

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

It was good I left Brighton on a high, like I left Palace on a high but whether Carlisle to Rochdale or Brighton to Palace, as soon as I left that chapter was closed.

It is painful to say that the best player you have is better off trying something new.

I was in a comfortable situation, I was on tour, it was cool, but it wasn't at all what I wanted to do. So I had to leave it, start over. My friends were like, 'You were doing something, now you're back at day one.' So people kind of look at you different when you start over. Everyone needs to challenge themselves like that.

I chose Rio Ave because I had something in my head about wanting to do it differently to how I had done it in my past. Something new.