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Explore more quotes by Sandra Day O'Connor

"The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming."

Court,

"When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it."

Court, Law, Precedents, School

"Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents."

Country, Precedents

"I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job."

Job,

"Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person."

Family, Understanding

"It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself."

Fear, Values, Compromise, Constitution

"Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom."

Time, May

"I need to retire from retirement."

Retirement,

"I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases."

Will, Woman

"I'm a judge. It seemed to me that it was critical to try to take action to stem the criticism and help people understand that in the constitutional framework, it's terribly important not to have a system of retaliation against decisions people don't like."

People, Action, Criticism, Decisions

Exlpore more Experience quotes

"There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California."

Edward Abbey, American Author

Experience, Science, Thought, Logic

"And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly."

John Abizaid, American Soldier

Experience, Key, Network

"Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time."

John Abizaid, American Soldier

Experience, Time

"There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny."

Lascelles Abercrombie, British Poet

Experience, Ability, Destiny, Man

"The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience."

Chinua Achebe, Nigerian Writer

Experience, Nothing

"In my experience, problems most frequently arise from those who report for television, with little field experience in your area but an insatiable appetite for a sound bite."

Alvin Adams, American Businessman

Experience, Appetite, Problems, Sound

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

Experience, Ability, Remarkable

"Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience."

Freda Adler, American Educator

Experience, Perceptions

"Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience."

Felix Adler, German Educator

Experience, Intellect

"It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history."

Renata Adler, Italian Journalist

Experience, History, Self