Continuing Work Quotes

Retirement is fatal. Luckily, in my profession, you don't have to retire.

The only way to honor Steve and his legacy and everything he lived for was to try to continue his work and expand on it.

As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while.

Why retire from something if you're loving it so much and enjoying it so much, and you're blessed with another group of people to work with like the gang on 'Hot in Cleveland?' Why would I think of retiring? What would I do with myself?

First of all, you never retire. At least I don't retire.

I love this university, and although I might be retiring from the presidency, my work with Ohio State will continue.

While I'm hale and hearty, I've no thought in my mind to retire.

I like to be busy. I once shared an agent with the late Sir John Gielgud, who, at 96, was apparently still ringing up, saying, 'Hello, Gielgud here, any work?' Good on him. We've got to keep working. If we retire, there'll be nobody to play the old wrinklies, and that would be a dreadful shame.

The prophets and the writers of the Psalms were clear that God was continuing to work in the universe and in all history. They declared that He had created the universe.

What's incredible is that I'm 75 and still working.

That, for me, is a very important test of a young writer's commitment because most of them are going to have to continue doing that when they've finished the program.

'Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.

I'm not retiring.

With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.

I don't suppose I'll ever retire completely.

It may be that I shall find it good to get outside of my body - to cast it off like a disused garment. But I shall not cease to work! I shall inspire men everywhere, until the world shall know that it is one with God.

I'd just like to carry on acting.

Talk about a woman of a certain age - Pearl Buck was a great prototype of continuing to work. She was in the hospital dying of cancer, and in the next room was her secretary, typing out her next book.

I look forward to continuing my work on the sidelines for Turner Sports.

The determination I have to try to continue Steve's work and make the world a better place is so important.

I think that all actors just want to continue acting, so if you get the opportunity to go out and do something again, you feel very lucky.

I'd love to do something else for Avatar after this.

'Retirement' is a dirty word. Luckily, I can carry on working until I drop, provided I retain my mental abilities.

If a Work of God does NOT Continue, it was NEVER a Work of God.

It is hard for me to imagine retiring at 65 and spending the next quarter century not working. I expect to be working, doing something productive and fulfilling.