“Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.”

As quoted in Wisdom for Our Time (1961) by James Nelson

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American pastor 1878–1969

Jimmy Magee (1935–2017) Gaelic games commentatot

Magee said he hoped to die live on air. herald.ie http://www.herald.ie/news/irelands-other-big-games-winner-jimmy-magee-3196108.html <br class="br">Others

“Actors don't retire. They just get offered fewer roles.”

Дэвид Нивен RAF officer

“Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.”

Louis Armstrong (1901–1971) American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer

“When a man is forced into early retirement, he is often being ‘given up for a younger man.’ Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being ‘given up for a younger woman’ is for a woman… Why do many men get more upset by retirement than women do from the empty nest —when their children leave home? When females retire from children, they can try a career; when a man retires from a career, his children are gone.”

Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 174.

“After the new album, I'm actually retiring man. I'm retiring.”

Justin Bieber (1994) Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor

Radio interview to Power 106, as quoted in Daily Mail, 'I'm retiring man': Justin Bieber announces that he's quitting his career as a singer during interview on national radio http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2525612/Justin-Bieber-announces-hes-quitting-career-singer-interview-national-radio.html, 18 December, 2013

“I focus on Cricket it's something i am good at. After retiring, i want to serve in the army. It has always been about serving the nation.”

MS Dhoni (1981) Indian cricket player

In dhoni's own words: it's always been about serving the country. https://www.scoopwhoop.com/sports/ms-dhoni/

“Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects.”

Stephen R. Covey book The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

The 8th Habit : From Effectiveness to Greatness‎ (2004)
Context: Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is, a deep sense of meaning and contribution to worthy projects and causes, particularly your intergenerational family.

The 8th Habit : From Effectiveness to Greatness‎ (2004), p. 63

“Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't eternally have been just a retired major.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid., p. 218
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Ser major reformado parece-me uma coisa ideal. É pena não se poder ter sido eternamente apenas major reformado.

“Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action”

George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States

Address to Congress resigning his commission (23 December 1783)
1780s
Context: Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.

“I say to people I'm in my late period. Obviously, as you get older you're in your late period anyway, but to decide you are becomes a concept. It's related to the concept of my retirement, which was about the fact that I'd shown at the greatest gallery in the world and I'd never top that… So, I retired from the jealousy of other artists, and ambition. I could alternatively have become a Buddhist or something — it is a kind of beatific state.”

Peter Blake (1932) British artist

Serena Davies, "In the studio:Peter Blake, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/12/13/bastudio13.xml The Daily Telegraph, 2005-12-13 <br class="br">The "greatest gallery" refers to the National Gallery in London, where he was the associate artist in 1996. <br class="br">Life

“Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.”

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