Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity. ”

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience. ”

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels. ”

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason. ”

Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently. ”

With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome. ”

It is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life. ”

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't. ”

There is an old maxim which states that good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgment. I think something similar can be said of government policy, to wit: Good policy comes from experience, and experience comes from poor policy. ”

I remember the first roll of film I took. It was wintertime, and I wanted to shoot a roll of film to practice processing it, so I took an entire 36-exposure roll of my dog, Tippy. ”