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Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: January 4, 1943

Topics

Leadership Moment People Opinion

I think the greatest lesson that power has to teach us is, once you've had it, once you are a part of it, you're never free.

Joe Morton

Power Free Think You Lesson Never

Dame Barbara Cartland was an endearing eccentric, and when I interviewed her, she wanted me to listen to her dictating to her secretary one of those romantic novels that she turned out fortnightly.

Melvyn Bragg

Romantic Me Listen She Out Her

As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.

Robert Jay Lifton

Sports Hero Baseball Loved More Kid

I've been wanting to have a child since Dashiell was 1, but I was working too much, and there was a lot going on in my relationship.

Sophie B. Hawkins

Relationship Child Too Much Going

Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night.

Simon Mainwaring

Morning Night Computers You See

When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder.

Tom Hodgkinson

Car Space Mind Walking You Train

You know, people always think if you start out as a film editor, you shoot less footage. Actually, just the opposite is true. I tend to grab as much coverage as I can because as a former editor I know how important it is to have those few frames.

Robert Wise

People Start Think You I Can Know

As we say in the hood, I'm a stoop kid.

Michael K. Williams

Hood Say Kid Stoop

The thing I will say is that probably culturally, women are treated differently, which means, I think, you're criticized more, you have to listen a little bit more, you have to justify yourself.

Lisa Randall

Women Yourself Think You Say Will

Get your butt in a chair and write. If it comes out weak or bad or clunky or ordinary, then accept that this happens to everyone. Everyone. Get it down, get it done, and fix it in the rewrite. Just like everyone from Stephen King to J. K. Rowling to Chuck Palahniuk does.

Jonathan Maberry

King Chair Bad Down Done Accept

My wife is great. She always goes to the bank to see if the check has cleared.

Don Rickles

Great Wife She Bank Always See

Whenever I had anything and saw a fellow being suffering, I was more anxious to relieve him than to benefit myself. And this is one of the true secrets of my being a poor man to this day.

Davy Crockett

Myself Day Man Suffering Secrets