Real success is finding your life work in the work that you love. That's it. Don't worry about making a living, don't worry about popularity or fame. Make what you do ... count more than what you own. David McCullough More Quotes by David McCullough More Quotes From David McCullough A leader must look and act the part. David McCullough leader looks You can't love what you don't know much about. You can't convince, stimulate, hold the attention, teach, if you don't know what you're talking about. David McCullough attention talking knowledge History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. David McCullough who-we-are history way The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth. David McCullough missing facts knowledge There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you. David McCullough congratulations persons inspirational Only those who [do] nothing [make] no mistakes. David McCullough mistake First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past. David McCullough argument past firsts Each generation, we peel back biases that have blinded those before us. The more we know about the past enables us to ask richer and more provocative questions about who we are today. David McCullough who-we-are generations past However little television you watch, watch less. David McCullough littles watches television My wife, the star I steer by. David McCullough marriage wife stars 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 immersing-yourself reading culture A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia. David McCullough forget history past History is about life. It's awful when the life is squeezed out of it and there's no flavor left, no uncertainties, no horsing around. It always disturbed me how many biographers never gave their subjects a chance to eat. You can tell a lot about people by how they eat, what they eat, and what kind of table manners they have. David McCullough flavor tables people Nobody ever lived in the past. David McCullough past My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader. David McCullough writing book interesting Home is really where education does begin. David McCullough doe home Your education never stops and college is just the beginning. You come out of college with a huge advantage in that you've ideally and more times than not you've come out with a love of learning and that's what matters above all. David McCullough advantage what-matters college I think that a good education ought to be in part the idea that ease and joy are not synonymous. Some of the most fulfilling pleasures of life are to be found in work - found in work you love to do, work you want to do, work that makes you want to get out of bed in the morning. David McCullough work-you-love morning thinking You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties. David McCullough virtue liberty rights We should draw on our story, we should draw on our history. If we don't know who we are, if we don't know how we became what we are, we're going to start suffering from all the obvious detrimental effects of amnesia. David McCullough who-we-are suffering stories
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