"I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Emily Gould

#Thinking Quotes #Lawyer Quotes #Valuable Quotes

“Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.”
“Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 29, 2014
“I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.”

Source : Gail Caldwell (2010). “Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship”, p.182, Random House
“When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.”
“I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.”
“Let's say someone has experienced a violent trauma or betrayal: a child has been raped by a parent or has witnessed the destruction of someone he loves or has been so traumatized by the possibility of beatings and punishments that he's afraid to act. If the trauma is great enough, that person's life may become frozen, emotionally frozen even though he still gets up in the morning, is busy all day, and goes to bed at night. But there's this empty space that begins to fill with rage, rage toward everyone - the perpetrator, the people in the world who haven't suffered, even toward himself. (174)”

Source : Stephen Dobyns (2015). “Boy in the Water: A Novel”, p.202, Penguin
“It is not possible to 'spoil' a child with love and affection...a child needs all the love and affection it can possibly get.”
“Things happen to us and reaction is sometimes tough to measure.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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