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161 " To say that a stay-at-home mom has betrayed her potential is no less absurd than to suggest that a woman who puts career first is somehow less a woman. "
― Sonia Sotomayor , My Beloved World
162 " the difference between winning and losing came down to the appeal by emotion rather than fact alone. "
163 " Granting myself permission to use my innate skills of the heart, accepting that emotion was perfectly valid in the art of persuasion, amounted to nothing less than a breakthrough. "
164 " success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared. "
165 " Leveraging emotional intelligence in the courtroom, as in life, depends on being attentive; the key is always to watch and listen. "
166 " What holds a jury’s attention, essentially, is the quality of one’s own attention. "
167 " Seeing the task in the context of another "
168 " It is the particulars that make a story real. "
169 " In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells, that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house. "
170 " I had never before in all these years asked that very intelligent and perceptive woman for her own version of events. I would be startled by what I uncovered and grateful even at this remove to meet a happier version of my father—and my mother—than I ever knew. "
171 " temporary need for remedial help into a lifetime of minimal employment and poverty. The ASPIRA consent decree won by PRLDEF in 1974 established the right of students with limited English to receive bilingual education in New York City’s public schools. "
172 " SOMETIMES THE PEOPLE closest to us are those we know the least. “Where should I begin, Sonia?” “Begin at the beginning, Mami. "
173 " But experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire. "
174 " I particularly welcomed any chance to work on issues such as economic development and education that were crucial to the community in which I was raised. I not only cared deeply about those people but also understood their needs from firsthand experience. "
175 " Ultimately, though, I realized I did have sources of deep happiness, and these bred in me an optimism that proved stronger than any adversity. "
176 " When someone’s dignity shatters in front of you, it leaves a hole that any feeling heart naturally wants to fill, if only with its own sadness. "
177 " the culture of poverty persists by virtue of being adaptive, a set of strategies to cope with difficult circumstances. "
178 " idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in heaven. To succeed in this world, you have to be known to people. "
179 " How is it that adversity has spurred me on instead of knocking me down? "
180 " People who live in difficult circumstances need to know that happy endings are possible. "