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I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.

James Ellroy

Age

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

Jane Elliot

Age

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

T. S. Eliot

Age

Life

I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays were the most fantastic way of expressing life. I thought I'd discovered Shakespeare - 'hey, there's a new guy in town, don't know if anyone's read him.' I was just excited about the whole thing, from day one.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein

Age

Common sense

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

Maria Edgeworth

Age

Heart

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Age

Youth