“Let’s hope we won’t,” said Nanny. She gave Verence a withering look. “And I remember you when you were just a man in a funny hat.” Even this didn’t work. Verence merely sighed again and turned toward the door. “I still am, Nanny,” he said.
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Excellent exchange between these two characters, but also truly resonates with me after moving into a leadership role. I'm still me, just me with more duty and responsibility to those I lead.
“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.”
― Making Money
― Making Money
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