What I think I've learned is that you're never going to get it all right, and you can't obsess about having a… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
You can't start out at 20 in whatever your profession is and say, "I want to win an Olympic medal," or "I… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family,… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Whatever it is that you do, if you have that passion and desire for it, that's the most important thing. — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I think some people who go into public life, if they go in needing the applause of thousands, they're never going to… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I think the most important advice is, a person doesn't have to find out right away. It's not like their first attempt… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
If you interview five people about the same incident, and you see five different points of view, it makes you know what… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
If your ambition comes at the price of an unbalanced life, that there's nothing else that gives you comfort but success, it's… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I think if I were reading to a grandchild, I might read Tolstoy's War and Peace. They would learn about Russia, they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Sometimes people will find things that are wrong. Sometimes they will even find an approach that you took wrong. If you think… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
What I think I've learned is that you're never going to get it all right, and you can't obsess about having a fact wrong… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made. — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“This extreme treatment was among the proliferating regimens developed in response to the stunning increase in nervous disorders diagnosed around the turn of the… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that,” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Don’t hit till you have to; but, when you do hit, hit hard.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“After ministering each day to the hundreds of young men who had endured ghastly wounds, submitted to amputations without anesthesia, and often died without… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
The value that I found in interviewing was for an educational experience, just to know that history itself is subjective, that you can't say,… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“All the cartoonists at heart liked him, and there was seldom or never anything bitter or really unfriendly in their portrayals of him; they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
