Cynthia Kenyon Quotes

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today's students have to look forward to the excitement of probably having three or four careers.

We are living longer, and we need to live better.

Career diversification ain't a bad thing.

I'm a 40-year-old, and I have a 5-year-old kid. I don't want to be unhealthy. I want to be around for as long as I can.

I'm interested in long careers where you take detours.

Live to 97 and you can do anything.

I've gone through a whole series of careers where something started as a hobby of some kind. Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught.

After 'The White Shadow' was over, I did some more work, but then I wound up taking a year off to teach at Harvard. It afforded me the chance to have a variegated career - a very interesting one.

I really think people should live to be 100 years old pretty much disease-free. I think that's our genetic potential.

As we live longer and healthier for longer, we need to keep ourselves busy... the diary is pretty full.

There's an awful lot of choices in the world as far as what one can do for a living. It's best to be familiar with as many sectors of the working world as you can be so you'll be better at your creative job anyway.

Switching from one career to another can be scary, but it also can be a thrilling experience. Look at it as an opportunity to really go after what you want to accomplish in life and make a difference in the world. The key is to take small, conscious steps and prepare yourself for a successful transition.

People who are making it to 100 live in environments where they are regularly nudged into physical activity.

I'm still like a butterfly going from one job to another job. But it's quite lovely - I hope to keep this freedom, to have fun.

It always irritated me that people think they have to be locked into a career path.

I've tried to be flexible in my career by doing a little bit of everything and that's worked for me.

The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing.

I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out.

My whole career, I've tried to bounce back and forth between everything, and not get typed out. I've done a pretty good job of not getting typed.

The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.

I just want a really varied career, and just to keep going, really.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

For the last thirty years in my career I never know what I'm doing next.

My parents have always done what they've loved, and they've had many different careers.