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Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.
David McCullough
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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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Real success is finding your life work in the work that you love. That's it. Don't worry about making a living, don't worry about popularity or fame. Make what you do ... count more than what you own.
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Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.
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You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them. (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)
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First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.
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Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely.
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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
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People often ask me if I'm working on a book. That's not how I feel. I feel like I work in a book. It's like putting myself under a spell. And this spell, if you will, is so real to me that if I have to leave my work for a few days, I have to work myself back into the spell when I come back. It's almost like hypnosis.
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The first of all qualities of a general is courage.
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There is a human longing to go back to other times. We all know how when we were children we asked our parents, What was it like when you were a kid? I think it probably has something to do with our survival as a species.
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In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know.
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They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
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I don't pick my presidents because they were great presidents. I'm not much interested in ranking presidents and who is the best and who is the worst. I am much more inclined to be interested in them if they had an interesting life and if they were a complete person - and by that I mean they also had flaws and failings.
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My wife, the star I steer by.
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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
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Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
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To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
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America faces an enemy who believes in enforced ignorance. And all that we stand for is the open mind, the generous spirit, the ideal of tolerance, freedom, education, opportunity.
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We all know the old expression, I'll work my thoughts out on paper. There's something about the pen that focuses the brain in a way that nothing else does. That is why we must have more writing in the schools, more writing in all subjects, not just in English classes.
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The talent, including the talent for history - and I do think there are people who just have a talent for it, the way you have a talent for public speaking or music or whatever - it shouldn't be allowed to lie dormant. It should be brought alive.
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