Quotes and Sayings about Longevity
"I'm not going to give up doing interesting things. I'm going to do it as long as I possibly can and hopefully have longevity in this business."
- Jessica Biel
(Related: Business, Longevity)
"I don't know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It's more than talent and beauty. Maybe it's the audience seeing itself in you."
- Joan Blondell
(Related: Beauty, Talent, Longevity)
"I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Longevity, Trying)
"Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men."
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
(Related: Men, Women, Disease, Importance, Longevity, Population, Will)
"If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it."
- George Burns
(Related: Key, Longevity, Stress, Tension, Worry)
"It is likely that we need more radiation to improve our longevity."
- John Cameron
(Related: Longevity)
"I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had."
- Michael Connelly
(Related: Truth, Mistake, Longevity, Now)
"But my longevity is due to my good timing."
- Tony Curtis
(Related: Longevity)
"A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects."
- Edna Ferber
(Related: Living, Longevity, Man, Potential)
"Longevity conquers scandal every time."
- Shelby Foote
(Related: Time, Longevity, Scandal)
"We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary."
- Paul M. Glaser
(Related: Countries, Longevity, Television, World, Years)
"Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity."
- Helen Hayes
(Related: Life, Work, Achievement, Day, Eternity, Longevity, May, Play)
"Do, What you're going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow."
- Skitch Henderson
(Related: Longevity, Tomorrow)
"So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity."
- Charlie Hunnam
(Related: Work, Hope, Balance, Career, Longevity, Press)
"If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out."
- Alberto Juantorena
(Related: Athletes, Career, Longevity, Risk, Years)
"A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried."
- Garson Kanin
(Related: Bed, Eye, Longevity, Man, Old, Years)
"One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?"
- Leon Kass
(Related: Longevity, Past)
"You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it."
- Don King
(Related: Quality, Performance, Longevity)
"The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Life, Quality, Longevity)
"You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime."
- William Kirby
(Related: War, Act, Conflict, Interest, Longevity, Military, Stability, states)
"My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Career, Longevity, Reason)
"I'm just one of the lucky people. I have no other reason for my longevity."
- Johnny Mathis
(Related: People, Longevity, Reason)
"I definitely feel a difference about my place in the industry. I feel like I have some longevity now."
- Martina McBride
(Related: Difference, Longevity, Now)
"I know that producing will ultimately mean more longevity in the business, so when I'm tired of everything else and want to be behind the cameras, I know that I can produce."
- Maria Menounos
(Related: Business, Longevity, Want, Will)
"I look to longevity. I just consider myself an actress and getting good roles. If being a 'superstar' gets me good roles, then that's a positive thing. But my goal isn't just to be a superstar. It's to act for a long time."
- Penelope Ann Miller
(Related: Time, Goal, Positive, Act, Being, Longevity)
"I wasn't thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect."
- Graham Nash
(Related: Effect, Longevity, Songs, Thinking)
"When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity."
- Bob Newhart
(Related: Thought, Longevity, Satisfaction, Years)
"I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much."
- Bob Newhart
(Related: Marriage, Kids, Longevity)
"Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!"
- Ozzy Osbourne
(Related: Life, Abuse, Alcohol, Body, Drugs, Longevity)
"When you write a song, a song has longevity."
- Smokey Robinson
(Related: Longevity, Song)
"To sustain longevity, you have to evolve."
- Aries Spears
(Related: Longevity)
"And me, myself personally, in order for there to be any kind of longevity there's gotta be some history."
- Edwin Starr
(Related: History, Longevity, Order)
"And I just pray that god gives me longevity in the music industry."
- Ruben Studdard
(Related: Music, God, Longevity)
"Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity."
- George Thorogood
(Related: Longevity)
"Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: Life, Power, Science, Nature, Sister, Longevity, Philosophy, Yoga)
"If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity."
- Sun Tzu
(Related: Money, Longevity, Soldiers)
"I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to constantly realize and reveal what's already been there - like doing stage and singing and dancing in New York. I haven't been that far out of my comfort zone in a while."
- Blair Underwood
(Related: Business, Challenge, Comfort, Dancing, Longevity, Singing, Zone)
"The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt."
- William Vickrey
(Related: Government, Ability, Debt, Desire, Longevity, Retirement)
"Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer."
- Rachel Ward
(Related: Birds, Longevity)