A Quote by Alex Toth

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

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Alex Toth
American - Cartoonist
June 25, 1928 - May 27, 2006

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

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

Pablo Picasso

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

Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn a woman in half. I reply, Oh, yes I've sawn over seventy women in half in my lifetime, and I'm learning the second half of the trick now.

Raymond Smullyan

I like to work half a day. I don't care of it's the first twelve hours or the second twelve hurs. I just put in my half every day. It keeps me out of trouble.

Kemmons Wilson

A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.

Ann Landers

Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.

Mark Batterson

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

Ethan Mordden

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

Sex with my first boyfriend was a little bit like learning how to put in a tampon, but only half as enjoyable!

Samantha Bee

We're learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if they're broken. We're also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings - stepsiblings, half-siblings - and the surprising power they can have.

Jeffrey Kluger

Learning to earn a living is only half the job. The other half is to make life worthwhile and meaningful.

Sai Baba

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

The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.

Bruce Cockburn

I was learning things in school rather than learning how to teach myself, which is what you have to do in life, so I just abandoned it and did ceramics for a year and a half.

Michael Moschen

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

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