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John Lewis Gaddis Quotes

George W. Bush has much to evaluate: he has presided over the most sweeping redesign of U.S. grand strategy since the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

John Lewis Gaddis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: 1941

Topics

Strategy Over Presidency Grand Most

You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.

Joanna Trollope

Change Yourself People You Situation

I was happier going back to my roots: training like men do in my hometown of Pittsburgh. Back home the guys in the gyms don't lift to look good; they're lifting to lift. They do it because they want to squat more and bench more.

Joe Manganiello

Good Home Men Training Roots Look

The people I idolized I saw once a year on the Tony Awards. I would buy the cassette tapes of the various Broadway shows and scour the photos inside the recording package. That's how I exposed myself to the arts - New York and professional theater felt like a very distant thing.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Myself New York People Year New Buy

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

Jean Giraudoux

Great Witness Terrace Privileges

The sense of not knowing where I came from let me be as smart as I wanted to be.

Lisa Lutz

Smart Me Not Knowing Knowing Where

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

Jorge Luis Borges

Worth Flattery Nothing More Than

When I get asked for advice for a young person starting in the music business, I tell them, 'Play every chance you get, and be real lucky.'

Johnny Gimble

Business Music Chance Advice You

I remember when I read the screenplay for 'Sicario,' I fell in love with it, but at the same time, I went, 'Oh no, not again.' I mean, I would love to fall in love with something that is more light, like a rom-com or a comedy. I would love to. Because it's very demanding to go to dark places like this.

Denis Villeneuve

Love Time Light Comedy Remember Go

Trust gives you the permission to give people direction, get everyone aligned, and give them the energy to go get the job done. Trust enables you to execute with excellence and produce extraordinary results. As you execute with excellence and deliver on your commitments, trust becomes easier to inspire, creating a flywheel of performance.

Douglas Conant

Trust Excellence Job People Energy

I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.

Clarke Peters

Exercise Long You Being Muscles Get

You're either sexy or you're not. I'm very self-conscious about my physiognomy.

Bobby Darin

Sexy You Self-Conscious Either Very

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

William Shakespeare

Strike Will Wit Watch Winding He