Productive Aging Quotes

I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when you're not working for money anymore, then you should find things that are meaningful and not just be like, 'OK, that's another day gone.'

Instead of just getting old and giving up and dying, let's learn to make a huge contribution to life.

Work is the basis of living. I'll never retire. A man'll rust out quicker than he'll wear out.

My life isn't over and I'm not going to sit in a rocking chair and take money from the government.

I am 84 years old and have not retired because I feel I have something to contribute.

As you get older, don't slow down. Speed up. There's less time left!

I see all these old people who don't have anything to do but eat, drink and sleep. I will never say 'retired' because that's such a finality that I don't want to be part of my life. I'll work until they throw me in a box.

I'm having a great life. And I'm 73 and they still phone me up and ask me to do a job here and there.

Retirement is a waste of time. The economy needs you!

You're young forever when you write. Alfred Hitchcock directed until the day he died. As long as you don't have any dementia or Alzheimer's, if you have your All-Bran every day and clear yourself out, I think your brains are gonna be all right.

We need a new and positive narrative that defies the negativity and transforms our ageing populations from a problem into an asset.

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

I hope I'm not sitting on a bench in a retirement home talking about what was: "Oh, I worked with this guy and that guy." I hope I'm still doing it for a really long time.

I never expected to be even busier at 81, and doing more of what I love, than when I was 30.

I believe in financial retirement. I don't necessarily believe in physical retirement.

I really don't believe in retiring as long as you can breathe.

It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.

My energy is undiminished. Someone said to me the other day, 'Are you retired?' and I said, 'Well, I'm just trying to prove that I'm not.' There's so many things to do.

As we live longer and healthier for longer, we need to keep ourselves busy... the diary is pretty full.

Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.

One of the few graces of getting old - and God knows there are few graces - is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is what's happening to me.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian, who painted better than ever in his one hundredth.

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.