James Taylor Quotes

When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please.

I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.

I will never retire unless I have to.

A lot of people want to retire; I couldn't. You don't retire in our business. What, play golf and watch television? Oh, please.

I retired at 35 in '98 and thought, 'There's only one place to go, and that's downward.' I retired at a good level. I was at peace after 15 years - I was lucky to play that long.

I was honestly contemplating retirement. A lot of people don't know that, but I was done.

I'm having a really hard time with this retirement thing and not having wrestling.

I don't hate the idea of retirement. I am looking forward to it.

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.

I think it eminently proper that a president should retire from active politics, and equally proper that he should be able to live in quiet independence.

I'm one of those people who, as long as I am still healthy and my thoughts are more or less clear, I don't think I can retire entirely.

I'm not really good at retiring. I tried that one time and Nancy ran me out of the house.

Really, I'm trying to retire. It's just nobody will let me!

Once I retire, I'm retiring. I'm done.

We have some control over when we retire. However, we have very little control over how long we will live.

If you start thinking about retirement in six months' time, you're already there.

I don't know why people thought I was retiring.

I don't think anybody ever really just retires where they don't do anything.

Well, I think some people are very happy in retirement. And in a year and a half I'm going to see how happy I feel in retirement. I'm just going to not work quite so hard, but I'll continue to write as long as God gives me breath.

By the time I am Howard's age I hope to be long retired. I don't plan on working that long.

Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.

I don't know the right way to retire.

Whether it's fly-fishing, taking your camper to the Everglades, or just traveling, everyone has got a little retirement dream.

I wouldn't know how to retire.