John Carmack Quotes

We're both getting older, our children are starting to leave home. But I can say that I'm just as passionate a songwriter now in my 50s as I was in my 20s. But instead of talking about the general kind of angst that I felt as a teenager, I'm writing about more specific issues.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

High school isn't necessarily the best time of your life.

I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s.

Life begins at 40, and I'm living proof.

Nineteen is as alive as 40-plus. I can vividly remember 19 and how I saw the world.

When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge yourself.

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s.

I feel like I experienced my 20s in all their glory and all their disastrousness.

Maybe in my 20s I was a little more lively. But I'm done with that.

But I was ready for it and I knew I could do it. I've just turned 40, I have a son and I feel more settled and driven than ever. I think my 40s will be my most prolific time. It's a very rare life you get to lead as a sitcom guy.

The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.

I was 22, and 40 was old. To be 40 again!

Everything that happens later in life is appreciated in a different way. You can appreciate the thing for what it is, which you couldn't if you were 25 and had never experienced much else. You would take it all for granted and think that's what life is like.

The person you are at 13 or 17 is not the person you are at 30, 40, or 50. Everyone old enough to look back on his or her teenage years knows this.

If you've never been 40, you don't understand how it feels.

The feelings we all have as 50-year-olds are different than the feelings we all have as 30-year-olds. That informs everything we do.

Having a collection of regrets when you hit your 40s is part of the deal.

I didn't go to uni and although I don't have regrets in my life, I have two nephews and I'd encourage them to go to uni as I don't think you need to grow up too quick.

Everybody complains about getting older, but I find it such a rich time of life. There are negative things about it, I suppose, but more than that, I'm finding it to be a very positive experience in which growth suggests itself in a much more alluring way than it did when I was young - isn't that funny?

When you are in your twenties you just think the races are what matter the most. When you are in your forties you really appreciate what you do every day.

You know what, being in my 30s is so much better than my 20s.

So many things come with your maturation process. I changed throughout my time with WWE from a kid in his 20s into a man.

In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.

Every teenager, I think, thinks it's the end of the world whenever anything happens, and it's not. You'll get through it. Life will be much more interesting and will certainly be broader when you're older.