James MacGregor Burns Quotes

Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.

James MacGregor Burns

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 3, 1918 - July 15, 2014

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LeadershipPeopleBetterLiftSecret

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.

Jim Dine

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People are proud of their players.

Joe Torre

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As a novelist, I feel lucky that I can traffic in nuance. I'm more interested in looking at how things change over time, at how people try and sometimes fail to make meaning out of their lives.

Meg Wolitzer

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The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people.

Matthew Continetti

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I am a competitive person. But more good TV is more good TV.

Matthew Weiner

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You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible.

Jean Paul Gaultier

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I have a very wonderful bath ritual.

Michael Bastian

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I think that people need a livable wage.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

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There are stories you can tell on TV that can't be told in movies anymore.

Sissy Spacek

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I've been lucky enough to play on NBA teams I really enjoy, teams where I've liked everybody and had fun, and had that college kind of experience with an NBA team. When you have that, and I don't know that everyone does, but when I've had it, that's what it's all about.

Steve Nash

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That's what I play - blue-collar Italian-Americans. You got to be typecast in order to work. I've been blessed.

Michael Rispoli

WorkBlessedYouPlayOrderBeen

If I could have a family and a home one night, and all of it's gone the next, that must mean that life has the capacity to change. And then I thought, 'Whoa! That means that just as change happens to me, I can cause change in my life.'

Liz Murray

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