Ed Greenwood Quotes

True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do

It's a time to reflect and appreciate all the contributions that others have made to my career and my life. My vision is nothing that hasn't been gleaned or understood from watching and working with so many people I admire before me.

I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.

Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.

I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.

Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.

I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.

Turning 60 had an impact on my heart and soul, I must say, because you're dealing with time: past, present, and future. You suddenly realize you've come down the road quite a ways.

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

I think the older you get, the more you realize how important life is, the more you think about your family.

A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.

You really become aware of your own life, what really matters, and it's not about the car you drive or what you have materially. It's family, healthy children, and it is to be cherished.

You just have to focus on what's really important in life, and that's your friends and your family and the life that you build.

First, love to the family. Second, love to career. Third, love to the audience.

Age is just a number. Life and aging are the greatest gifts that we could possibly ever have.

There is something to be said for being older - and memories.

Quite a lot of things are more important than playing football and what we do, we are blessed.

You can get too involved with all the wee things in life, but the most important thing is you're alive and well.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them".

To enjoy the rainbow, first enjoy the rain.

You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. I know this to be wise and true, just as I know that pretty much no one can do it.