David McCullough Quotes - Page 4

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• I love all sides of the work but that doesn't mean it isn't hard.

  David McCullough

  Mean, Two Sides, Sides

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov.

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• The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.

  David McCullough

  Writing, Thinking, Suffering

  David McCullough (2012). “John Adams”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them." (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)

  David McCullough

  Reading, Culture, Immersing Yourself

  FaceBook post by David McCullough from Aug 31, 2012

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• May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

  David McCullough

  Wise, Men, May

  David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough American Presidents E-Book Box Set: John Adams, Mornings on Horseback, Truman, The Course of Human Events”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• Find something to do that you love because then the work itself is always the reward not the recompense. And if you love what you're doing you probably do better at it than doing something you don't love and therefore you'll be compensated appropriately.

  David McCullough

  Love Is, Doing You, Rewards

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

  David McCullough

  Past, Firsts, Argument

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. 2003.

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• The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?

  David McCullough

  Luck, Human Nature, Tick

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov.

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• To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life. It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.

  David McCullough

  Theatre, Would Be, Literature

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it.

  David McCullough

  Art, Art Is, Great Things

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• Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

  David McCullough

  Writing, Thinking, Purpose

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov.

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• Nothing ever invented can you a bigger life than a book.

  David McCullough

  Book, Bigger

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• I write on the typewriter. I like it because I like the feeling of making something with my hands. I like pressing the key and a letter comes up and is printed on a piece of paper. I can understand that.

  David McCullough

  Writing, Keys, Typewriters

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• Yes, this is a dangerous time. Yes, this is a time full of shadows and fear. But we have been through worse before and we have faced more difficult days before. We have shown courage and determination, and skillful and inventive and courageous and committed responses to crisis before.

  David McCullough

  Determination, Shadow, Courageous

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Since September 11, it seems to me that never in our lifetime, except possibly in the early stages of World War II, has it been clearer that we have as a source of strength, a source of direction, a source of inspiration - our story.

  David McCullough

  War, Inspiration, September 11

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.

  David McCullough

  Way, Scene, Dickens

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. 2003.

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• Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely.

  David McCullough

  Book, Biographies, Tests

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• According to Adams, Jefferson proposed that he, Adams, do the writing [pf the Declaration of Independence], but that he declined, telling Jefferson he must do it. Why?" Jefferson asked, as Adams would recount. Reasons enough," Adams said. What can be your reasons?" Reason first: you are a Virginian and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. Reason second: I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular. You are very much otherwise. Reason third: You can write ten times better than I can.

  David McCullough

  Writing, Independence, Firsts

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• My strong feeling is that we must learn more about how we learn. I'm convinced that we learn by struggling to find the solution to a problem on our own with some guidance, but getting in and getting our hands dirty and working it.

  David McCullough

  Strong, Dirty, Struggle

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• I feel very strongly that history is about everything. It isn't just about politics or the military or social issues. If art, music, engineering, science, medicine, finance, the world of architecture and technology - if those are left out, then you're not getting a full sense of the human condition. History is human and we human beings are involved in all kinds of things and that's part of our humanity.

  David McCullough

  Art, Military, Technology

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• I don't pick my presidents because they were great presidents. I'm not much interested in ranking presidents and who is the best and who is the worst. I am much more inclined to be interested in them if they had an interesting life and if they were a complete person - and by that I mean they also had flaws and failings.

  David McCullough

  Mean, Interesting, President

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• I've always been dissatisfied, I know that. But lately I find that I reek of discontentment. It fills my throat, and it floods my brain. And sometimes I fear there is no longer a dream, but only the discontentment.

  David McCullough

  Dream, Brain, Sometimes

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• With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that.

  David McCullough

  War, Book, Europe

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov.

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• My love is to tell a story but I like stories that evolve from character, from the nature of the individuals involved.

  David McCullough

  Character, Love Is, Stories

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• Housetops were covered with 'gazers'; all wharves that offered a view were jammed with people ... As British officers happily reminded one another, it was the largest fleet ever seen in American waters. In fact it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century, the largest, most powerful force ever sent forth by Britain or any other nation.

  David McCullough

  Powerful, Views, People

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• America faces an enemy who believes in enforced ignorance. And all that we stand for is the open mind, the generous spirit, the ideal of tolerance, freedom, education, opportunity.

  David McCullough

  Believe, Ignorance, Opportunity

  Source: www.neh.gov

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