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Inspirational Quotes by David McCullough
- There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.
- Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
- The first of all qualities of a general is courage.
- Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.
- The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.
- If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.
- First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.
- I love all sides of the work but that doesn't mean it isn't hard.
- I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.
- I would pay to do what I do if I had to.
- There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.
- The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.
- Spotting talent is one of the essential elements of great leadership.
- There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.
- It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.
- To write is to think, and to write well is to think well,
- Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
- I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live.
- 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.
- You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.
- Nobody ever lived in the past.
- The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it.
- Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
- 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…
- Only those who [do] nothing [make] no mistakes.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento