"In legal practice, in the representation of clients, I have always felt deeply engaged, serene, and not all inclined to stand aside. I have always done whatever needed to be done, and have usually gotten my way."

-- Louis Begley

#Practice Quotes #Done Quotes #Way Quotes

“Central to living a life that is good, is a life that's forgiving.”
“No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.”
“Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight into the secrets of nature.”
“I thought this should be a travel show, because a lot of people with physical disabilities get discouraged.”
“Here is the mistake of the cut-and-dried man of culture. He goes about with the secret of having learned to appreciate the "grandstyle." He has lived in Homer till he can recall the roll of that many-sounding sea. He has pored over the lofty and pictorial thought of Plato till he begins to pique himself upon its grandeur. His fancy has been fed on the quaint old-world genius of Herodotus, his judgment on the melancholy wisdom of Tacitus and the complacent cynicism of Gibbon--and of all this he is conscious and proud.”
“Little projects - not feature - film projects - you know, theater things, writing things, and jobs like doing rewriting for money, stuff like that. I don't recommend it. It's not a schedule that I'd want, although it was really good for me in a lot of ways. I became a better writer.”
“No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.”
“If you can help a child, you don't have to spend years repairing an adult.”

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