Bolder Quotes

“Ann Landers, the legendary agony aunt, laid out this shift in black and white: ‘At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all.”
― Carl Honoré, Bolder

“If you are pining for youth I think it produces a stereotypical old man because you only live in memory, you live in a place that doesn’t exist,’ he said. ‘I think ageing is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been.”
― Carl Honoré, Bolder

“Minding less can also serve the greater good. Some people have changed the course of history by stepping up to say the unsayable or do the undoable in later life. Rosa Parks was 42 when she refused to give up her seat on that bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Today we need that willingness to rock the boat and speak truth to power more than ever. Why? Because we live in a world ruled by bullshit and branding, where spin trumps sincerity, where the pressure to perform is relentless, where online echo chambers insulate us from views that contradict our own, where Twitter mobs police opinions, jokes and language, where the keys to the kingdom are handed to those who find the most marketable way of saying what everyone else wants to hear. One remedy for this culture of conformity is to have more people around who are prepared to speak their mind because they mind less what others think of them – and that is exactly what the longevity revolution can deliver. As Oliver James, a prominent British psychologist and psychotherapist, puts it: ‘That bluntness, that refreshing authenticity you find in older people, is hugely to be valued.”
― Carl Honoré, Bolder

“Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories. —LAURIE ANDERSON”
― Carl Honoré, Bolder

“companies such as Forever Identity and Eternime are turning clients into digital avatars and holograms that will live on after they breathe their last breath.”
― Carl Honoré, Bolder

“The World Health Organization has pledged to make 2020–2030 the first ever Decade of Healthy Ageing.”
― Carl Honoré, Bolder