- Nov 07, 2020
Age Quotes
On the ages we pass through.
This collection moves from a childhood memory shaped by early pressure over appearance to a university course named for an 18th-century literary period, showing how differently 'age' can be used. For life-stage reflections, browse Life.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Cognition
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human brains - in terms of cognition and emotion and consciousness - are essentially the same as they were at the time of Shakespeare or Jesus or Cleopatra or the Stone Age. They are not evolving with the pace of change.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two hundred years ago, industrialisation ruined the labour force. In the modern age, especially in the West or America, people who are 'efficient,' who can bracket their emotions off, tend to win. But at what cost to the rest of us?
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been lucky to experience a lot of the spoils that can happen in a rock band. But being with the three guys in this band from such a young age, we aren't going to let any of the spoils change us.
- Stop
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
- Parenting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the parenting of Tina and myself combined allowed our kids to really find their passion at an early age.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's an old rule in neuroscience that does not alter with age: use it or lose it. It is a very hopeful principle when applied to critical thought in the reading brain because it implies choice.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always a character actress, even when I was an ingenue. But as you age, people know what to do with you, and you're not quite as dependent on maintaining leading-lady beauty.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as we have had great working lives, we have also had good personal lives. For instance, we have made school our number one priority. We have been in school our entire lives with kids our own age. We guess that's pretty regular.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's really important to be able to talk when something's wrong. I learned at a really young age that if you don't talk about it, it can drive you insane.
- Nov 07, 2020
By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020