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A leader must look and act the part.
David McCullough
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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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David Gaub McCullough
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There are people who are trying to write history for the general reader who can be quite tedious. That said, I do feel in my heart of hearts that if history isn't well written, it isn't going to be read, and if it isn't read it's going to die.
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I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene
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There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.
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History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
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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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Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more like characters in a costume pageant. And it's a pageant in which the performers are all handsome as stage actors, with uniforms and dress that are always costume perfect.
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If the attitude of the teacher toward the material is positive, enthusiastic, committed and excited, the students get that. If the teacher is bored, students get that and they get bored, quickly, instinctively.
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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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Find something to do that you love because then the work itself is always the reward not the recompense. And if you love what you're doing you probably do better at it than doing something you don't love and therefore you'll be compensated appropriately.
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You can't love what you don't know much about. You can't convince, stimulate, hold the attention, teach, if you don't know what you're talking about.
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There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans
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There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.
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Nobody ever lived in the past.
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If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds.
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The most interesting people are never perfect.
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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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People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works.
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The fulfilling life, the distinctive life, the relevant life, is an achievement... To do whatever you do for no reason other than you love it and believe in its importance.
David McCullough
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.
David McCullough
I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.
David McCullough
