“Don't demand so much from yourself early in the game. I was 27 years old before I started tweeting actively.”

— Vladimer Botsvadze

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“I never waited 27 years, because 27 years ago I was just born. My parents never told me, 'If you don't win Roland Garros we take you to the orphanage.”

Roger Federer (1981) Swiss tennis player

When asked what it was like to wait 27 years to win the French Open. http://198.105.192.83/general/tennis/story?storyId=4760203

“I don't know how it is that you start working at something you don't like, and before you know it you're an old man.”

Herman J. Mankiewicz (1897–1953) American screenwriter

Source: Halliwell, Leslie, Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies http://books.google.com/books?id=cnMelOEV10YC, 4th ed. (2006) HarperCollins

“I hate mornings. They start so early.”

Janet Evanovich book Plum Spooky

Source: Plum Spooky

“From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.”

Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman

“Garden," p. 126
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Hopelessness”

“Acting requires so much delving into yourself and exposing yourself, so it's sensible to be wondering, Do I still want to be doing this? But I enjoy the work, and everything is so solid at home. I don't care if they say I've had buttock implants. Or not. I don't care. Go ahead! That's the nice thing about getting to the age I am. I could have said I didn't care before -- but secretly I did. And now I really don't.”

Kate Beckinsale (1973) English actress

Allure magazine, March 2008.

“Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk's too big, the desk's too small, there's too much noise, there's too much quiet, it's too hot, it's too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all and simply to start.”

Robert Harris book The Ghost

Source: The Ghost (2007), Ch. 9.

“Every trainer talks about movement, about running a lot. I say don't run so much. Football is a game you play with your brain. You have to be in the right place at the right moment, not too early, not too late.”

Johan Cruyff (1947–2016) Dutch association football player

reported in David Winner (2012). Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football.

“There's been nothing proven that violence in video games has an impact. As a parent though, and I'm a parent for a 20-year-old, for a 16-year-old and for a 10-year-old, and so, you know, I make choices everyday for my kids as to what games I think is appropriate for them to play. And, you know, in the end it's up to the parents, it's up to the gamers themselves working with their parents, if they're under 21, to make the smartest choice for the games they play.”

Reggie Fils-Aimé (1961) American businessman

On violence in video games
Source: YouTube http://youtube.com/watch?v=J1PXHesXopE

“At carefree times in early boyhood I chose to believe that life was a kind of ball game, but with a mix of years and perception I learned better.”

Roger Kahn (1927–2020) American baseball writer

Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 43

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Variant: If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

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