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.
Risk, then, is not just part of life. It is life. The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place. It's the high-anxiety zone, but it's also where you discover who you are.
True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign.
It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane, and, for some mysterious reason, got a private room with a balcony overlooking the town and the harbor; then you sat there and drank until something happened.
β¦tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it.
Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.
When you grow up in abject poverty, you see people exactly the way they are.
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