A Quote by Ethan Mordden

For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it.

Ethan Mordden

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Ethan Mordden
American - Author
Born: 1947

I believe the second half of one's life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it.

Frances Lear

Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.

Jean de la Bruyere

I spent the first half of my career learning what to put into my work, and the second half learning what to leave out.

Alex Toth

Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.

Russell Baker

I spent the first half of my life making money and the second half of my life giving it away to do the most good and the least harm.

Andrew Carnegie

It can be set down as a broad, general principle that we cannot indulge in idleness and abundance during both the first and second half of our life. Study, application, industry, enthusiasm while we are young usually enable us to enjoy life when we grow older. But unless we toil and strive and earn all we can in the first half, the second half of our life is liable to bring disappointment, discomfort, distress. The time to put forth effort is when we are most able to do it, namely, in the years of our greatest strength. The law of compensation hasn't ceased to function.

B. C. Forbes

My personal philosophy is that people should be extremely selfish for the first half of their life and extremely unselfish for the second half because then they can do the most good.

Walter O'Brien

A tree there is that from its topmost bough Is half all glittering flame and half all green Abounding foliage moistened with the dew; And half is half and yet is all the scene; And half and half consume what they renew.

William Butler Yeats

We spend the second half of our life making up for the first half.

Richard Jeni

It can be said that the first half of the marathon is 20 miles long; the second half, 6.2 more.

Hal Higdon

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Saul Bellow

Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?

Emile Zola

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

Carl Jung

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

If one of our players gets his second foul in the first half, then he must come out of the game and not re-enter until the second half. To play defense and not foul is an art that must be mastered if you are going to be successful.

Chuck Daly

Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the clocks half-yawn the hours And the farmers make half-answers.

Carl Sandburg

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