Ideas Quote by David Greenberg

“In a later chapter he describes a massive failure of intuition: Americans elected President Harding, whose only qualification for the position was that he…

— Daniel Kahneman

Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

— Emanuel Celler

“Experiment and reason, tempered by intuition, were to him preferable to solid plodding in the well-trodden paths of experience.”

— Richard Davenport-Hines

Ronald Reagan knew his own mind. He had firm principles - and, I believe, right ones. He expounded them clearly, he acted upon them…

— Margaret Thatcher

Early on, he'd learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn't be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise.

— Nicholas Sparks

Historically, individuals possessed of the confidence that privilege and good fortune bestow have often proved conspicuous reformers: think only of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

— Linda Colley

A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and…

— Gerhard Richter

Coolidge was a federalist. You go back and read him and it's almost intimidating to write about him because he writes better himself than…

— Amity Shlaes

One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely because he preferred experiment to ideology.

— Robert Kennedy

Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

To his surprise he also discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had…

— Richard Russo

“All ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the gardener with a pride and satisfaction…

— Mark Twain