Doris Kearns Goodwin Leadership Quotes

#1. Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#2. That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.

Edward Albee

#3. I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.

Dan Mangan

#4. Poetry by its very nature is subversive ... It turns words inside out, confounds meaning, changes black and white to ambiguous shades of gray. Never trust a poet.

Cristina Garcia

#5. The more freedom you have, the more happiness you have.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#6. That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#7. I get that we can't be together. And it's not like I'm so weak-willed that the simple act of saying hello to me will cause me to jump your bones in the hall.

Amanda Hocking

#8. I began to realize that this idea of the lighter the better and the darker the worse was really - had an impact on sororities, on friendships, on all sorts of things, and it was stunning to me.

Toni Morrison

#9. Look," Jason said, "you really need to learn the difference between sex and a thank-you card.

Marshall Thornton

#10. We need Harry Potter.

Sarah Ruhl

#11. It will always be the ultimate, because you're my ultimate.

Erin McCarthy

#12. That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

Thomas Hobbes

#13. I can't help but love David at this moment. He's calm when he has every right to be angry with everything and everyone, and as a result I feel, for the first time in a long time, that we are a unit,

Nick Hornby

#14. After Princeton, the years seem like a blur, but the days seem more like rapid fire. - Donald Rumsfeld in Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion

#15. The world is so rife with narcissists that none of them take enough notice of me.

Eleanor Bron

#16. Teddy Roosevelt "had relished "every hour" of every day as president. Indeed, (he was) fearing the "dull thud" he would experience upon returning to private life.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#17. One-time rival and subsequent usurper Secretary of State Seward finally settled into an assessment of Lincoln that, His confidence and compassion increase every day.

Doris Kearns Goodwin