Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes

'The bully pulpit' is somewhat diminished in our age of fragmented attention and fragmented media.

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• Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

  

  Vern Buchanan
  • You
  • Race
  • Lose

• Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Words

• The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Words
  • Question
  • Goal

• We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Revolution
  • Battle
  • Ending

• Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Business
  • Black
  • Small

• If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Place
  • Conservative

• My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Me

• Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Dinner
  • Electricity
  • Table

• I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Small
  • Like
  • Greek

• I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Music
  • Always
  • Try

• All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Powerful
  • Vote
  • Our

• I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Life
  • Feel
  • Realize

• By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• A new laboratory technique, positron emission tomography, uses radioactively labeled oxygen or glucose that essentially lights up specific and different areas of the brain being activated when a person speaks words or sees words or hears words, revealing the organic location for areas of behavioral malfunction.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Up
  • Different
  • Words

• I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can be put into play.

  

  Dana Schutz
  • Space
  • Play
  • Information

• My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Space
  • Project
  • Outer Space

• I've traveled around the world.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • World
  • Around
  • Traveled

• When I wrote 'The Da Vinci Code,' I told myself that this story of Jesus makes more sense to me than the story I read in the Bible.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Me
  • Jesus
  • Story

• You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

  

  Elizabeth Moon
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them.

  

  Sidney Blumenthal
  • Values
  • Stand
  • Democrats

• It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Character
  • Imagination

• They should just open lots of YouTube schools... as well as, like, a games school, where you can play all types of games. Like, if you want to play racing games, you go there and become a pro at that. Same for football or a shoot 'em up.

  

  KSI
  • Up
  • School
  • Football

• If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention.

  

  Richard John Neuhaus
  • Culture
  • Attention
  • Church

• 'The bully pulpit' is somewhat diminished in our age of fragmented attention and fragmented media.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Age
  • Attention