I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece.
Andy WarholRead
Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.
Interpretation
As people age, they must adapt to new stages of life, similar to how infants learn and grow.
Andy Warhol's quote reflects the idea that as life expectancy increases, individuals must embrace the wisdom of adapting to their changing circumstances. Just as babies learn about the world and grow through their experiences, older adults will need to navigate their longer lives with the same curiosity and flexibility. This perspective encourages a mindset of continuous learning and embracing the various phases of life, regardless of age.
In practice
During a workshop on aging, I quoted Andy Warhol to illustrate the importance of lifelong learning.
I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art
I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.
I like to be the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. But usually being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space is worth it, because something funny always happens.
Because the only people for me are the mad ones.
Rapidly, merrily, Life's sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly!
Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
You have to be able to make a real creative life for Yourself, before you can expect anyone Else to provide one ready-made for you.
Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years go, We know we dream, we dream we know. We rise up laughing with the light, We lie down weeping with the night. We hug the world until it stings, We curse it then and sigh for wings. We live, we love, we woo, we wed, We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead. We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear, And that's the burden of a year.
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