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| fa4baa0 | A five minute speech," he pointed out, "with fifteen minutes spent afterward is much more effective than a fifteen minute speech, no matter how inspiring, that leaves only five minutes for handshaking." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 45d0e75 | A thought to God is the right way to start off my Administration," he told them. "It will be the means to bring us out of the depths of despair." -- | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 4ef6f48 | Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment." But, he famously asserted, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 2ccc92e | Now I believe in rich people who act squarely, and in labor unions which are managed with wisdom and justice; but when either employee or employer, laboring man or capitalist, goes wrong, I have to clinch him, and that is all there is to it. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 90ed4e9 | If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do and how to do it. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| bc6affc | When angry at a colleague, Lincoln would fling off what he called a "hot" letter, releasing all his pent wrath. He would then put the letter aside until he cooled down and could attend the matter with a clearer eye. When Lincoln's papers were opened at the turn of the twentieth century, historians discovered a raft of such letters, with Lincoln's notation underneath; "never sent and never signed." Such forbearance set an example for the tea.. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 95b3ade | Establish a clear purpose; challenge the team to work out details; traverse conventional departmental boundaries; set large short-term and long-term targets; create tangible success to generate accelerated growth and momentum. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 657287e | With public sentiment, nothing can fail," Abraham Lincoln said, "without it nothing can succeed." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| fedc19c | So surely did Lincoln midwife this process of social transformation that we look back at the United States before Abraham Lincoln and after him. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| a88f81d | Lincoln never forgot that in a democracy the leader's strength ultimately depends on the strength of his bond with the people. In the mornings he set aside several hours to hear the needs of the ordinary people lined up outside his office, his time of "public opinion baths." Kindness, empathy, humor, humility, passion, and ambition all marked him from the start. But he grew, and continued to grow, into a leader who became so powerfully fuse.. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 981cbfb | Avoid dull facts; create memorable images; translate every issue into people's lives; use simple, everyday language; never use big words when small words will do. Simplify the concept that "we are trying to construct a more inclusive society" into "we are going to make a country in which no one is left out." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 9c46c2b | days, | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| d444db7 | There was a hush and everybody was holding their breath," Frances Perkins recalled. After what seemed a long-drawn moment of tension, he reached the rostrum, handed off his crutches, gripped the lectern edges with his powerful, viselike grip, tilted back his head, and "across his face there flashed a vast, world-encompassing smile." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 8726377 | Time is the most valuable thing you have; be sure you spend it well | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 3f6f616 | Regardless of one's impressive title, power without purpose and without vision was not the same thing as leadership. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| e0f9ac6 | In Life magazine in the mid-fifties, Robert Couglan railed against "the disease of working women," who insisted on ruining their children and their family life." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 8815c3c | Clay had been able, decade after decade, to quell rancor and bring opposing parties together in compromise. Time and again, he resisted "extremes of opinion" in both North and South. "Whatever he did, he did for the whole country." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 0e2057d | He would blanket someone with generosity, care, and affection, but in recompense, expect total loyalty and sterling achievement. Failing this standard was perceived by him as a betrayal. His affection would be withdrawn, a pattern of behavior so pronounced it earned the epithet, the Johnson "freeze-out." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 4d515f6 | This was no dictator or Messiah holding forth. Franklin Roosevelt spoke in the name of the people for a resurgence of the strength of democracy, for a constitutional system capable of meeting "every stress" without losing its essential form." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| d015f7a | if ever an argument can be made for the conclusive importance of the character and intelligence of the leader in fraught times, at home and abroad, it will come to rest on the broad shoulders of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 5a435ae | The American people," Johnson continued, "are tired of wrecking crews. They want builders--people who construct. They will entrust their affairs to the party that is constructive. They will turn their backs on the party that is destructive.... If we go forward as positive Americans and not negative oppositionists I am convinced that the time is not too far distant when the Democratic Party will again be in the majority. The party that can p.. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 030bf35 | If I try to flirt with her, I'll probably get shot down. That would show what a loser I am." This thought contains nearly all ten cognitive distortions, but it's a classic example of Self-Blame," | David D. Burns | ||
| 6f06841 | This is the period when hard decisions are faced by families, having to do with the insertion of feeding tubes and the vigor with which medical measures should be taken to fend off those natural processes that descend like jackals--or perhaps like friends--on debilitated people. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| 9358495 | If the comments are wrong, there is really nothing for you to be upset about. On the other hand, if the criticism is accurate, there is still no reason for you to feel overwhelmed. You're not expected to be perfect. | David D. Burns | ||
| 1d7b7f0 | Meanwhile, he continued to speak out on behalf of black citizens. In March 1846, a terrifying massacre took place in Seward's hometown. A twenty-three-year-old black man named William Freeman, recently released from prison after serving five years for a crime it was later determined he did not commit, entered the home of John Van Nest, a wealthy farmer and friend of Seward's. Armed with two knives, he killed Van Nest, his pregnant wife, the.. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| e035d88 | By anchoring his arguments firmly in history and law, he opened an antislavery approach that differed from the tactics of the allies of Garrison, who eschewed political organization, dismissed the founding fathers, and considered the Constitution "a covenant with death, an agreement with hell," because it condoned slavery. Where the Garrisonians called for a moral crusade to awaken the sleeping conscience of the nation, Chase targeted a pol.. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 974b123 | His experience taught him what every party boss has understood through the ages: the practical machinery of the party organization--the distribution of ballots, the checklists, the rounding up of voters--was as crucial as the broad ideology laid out in the platform. The same intimate involvement in campaign organization that he displayed in these early years would characterize all of Lincoln's future campaigns. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 2661732 | To Lincoln's mind, the fundamental test of a democracy was its capacity to "elevate the condition of men, to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all." A" | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 1bd9942 | For nearly two years, under Lyndon Johnson's domestic leadership, Republicans and Democrats had toiled together to engineer the greatest advances in civil rights since the Civil War and to launch a comprehensive, progressive vision of American society that would leave a permanent imprint on the national landscape. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| e2a2854 | magnanimity | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 49cdac5 | surly | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 5b22791 | precocious | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| e1d2e02 | There was little to lead one to suppose that Abraham Lincoln, nervously rambling the streets of Springfield that May morning, who scarcely had a national reputation, certainly nothing to equal any of the other three, who had served but a single term in Congress, twice lost bids for the Senate, and had no administrative experience whatsoever, would become the greatest historical figure of the nineteenth century. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| fba24d0 | indefatigable | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 874939d | Seward's only hope for reelection lay in Weed's ability to cobble together an antislavery majority from among the various discordant elements in the state legislature. In the weeks before the legislature was set to convene, Weed entertained the members in alphabetical groups, angling for every possible vote, including a few Know Nothings who might put their antislavery principles above their anti-Catholic sentiments. At one of these lavish .. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 51ee833 | rapacious | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 9cab4e1 | Put ambition for the collective interest above self-interest. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 1e45a8d | What is well-spoken must be yoked to what is well-thought. And such thought is the product of great labor, "the drudgery of the law." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 9191db6 | stentorian | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| d33341d | homespun | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 5cd0c26 | What good to conquer an enemy in battle, only to be vanquished by hunger or cold? | Dan Millman | ||
| efb204b | At the time the Constitution was adopted, Lincoln pointed out, "the plain unmistakable spirit of that age, towards slavery, was hostility to the principle, and toleration, only by necessity," since slavery was already woven into the fabric of American society. Noting that neither the word "slave" nor "slavery" was ever mentioned in the Constitution, Lincoln claimed that the framers concealed it, "just as an afflicted man hides away a wen or.. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| afe11e5 | By appealing to the moral and philosophical foundation work of the nation, Lincoln hoped to provide common ground on which good men in both the North and the South could stand. "I am not now combating the argument of necessity, arising from the fact that the blacks are already amongst us; but I am combating what is set up as moral argument for allowing them to be taken where they have never yet been." Unlike the majority of antislavery orat.. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 2938da2 | beneath Lincoln's tenderness and kindness, he was without question the most complex, ambitious, willful, and implacable leader of them all. | Doris Kearns Goodwin |