Psychology Quotes by David McCullough

9 Psychology quotes by David McCullough

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McCullough’s historical lens turns inward in these nine concise reflections, where he connects past events to the mental patterns that shape societies.

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“marinate your mind”

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“Beware the purists, the doctrinaires. It has been by the empirical method largely, by way of trial and error, that we have…

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“Adams lay peacefully, his mind clear, by all signs. Then late in the afternoon, according to several who were present in the…

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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,…

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Little children can learn anything, just as they can learn a foreign language. The mind is so absorbent then. There ought to…

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The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do…

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I think it's best to pick a biographical subject who lives to a ripe old age. Older people tend to relax and…

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We are all what we are, in large degree, because of others who have helped, coached, taught, counseled, who set a standard…

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With the situation as gray as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than Washington.…

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I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who…

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“Even mighty states and kingdoms are not exempted. If we look into history, we shall find some nations rising from contemptible beginnings and spreading…

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History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had…

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Nobody ever lived in the past.

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“Only TR openly declared his love for the job. “Nobody ever enjoyed the presidency as I did,” he boasted, and by all evidence that…

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“s ships Phoenix and Rose, in the company of three tenders, cast off their moorings at Staten Island and started up the harbor under…

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“a people may let a King fall, yet still remain a people, but if a King let his people slip from him, he is…

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Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of…

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“He worked at a plain, tall desk at which he wrote standing up or perched on a high stool,”

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“Nothing happens in isolation. Everything that happens has consequences. We”

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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…

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My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it…

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“Seen under the microscope, Stegomyia is a creature of striking beauty. Its general color is dark gray, but the thorax is marked with a…

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