David McCullough
"Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.(Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities, July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4)"
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"Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.(Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities, July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4)"
"الكتابة تفكير. وحسن الكتابة صفاء الفكر. ولهذا هي عسيرة."
David McCullough
"The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance us from our better moral nature, or sense of personal accountability."
"لقد أدرك ليندبرغ بعد الحرب أن شر التكنولوجيا لم يكن في التكنولوجيا ذاتها، لا في الطائرات ولا في سائر ابتكارات العبقرية التقنية الحديثة، بل في المدى الذي يمكن أن تبعدنا به عن فطرتنا الأخلاقية السامية، أو عن إحساسنا بالمسؤولية الشخصية."
David McCullough
Brave Companions: Portraits in History
"History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are."
"التاريخ دليلنا في عبور الأزمان العصيبة. التاريخ هو هويتنا، وهو ما صاغنا على ما نحن عليه."
David McCullough
"Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love."
"النجاح الحقيقي هو أن تجد رسالة حياتك في العمل الذي تحب."
David McCullough
"No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read."
"لا ضير في التاريخ أن نجعله شيئًا يرغب المرء في قراءته."
David McCullough
"History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are."
"التاريخ دليلنا في عبور الأزمان العصيبة. التاريخ هو هويتنا، وهو ما صاغنا على ما نحن عليه."
David McCullough
"To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."
David McCullough
"My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America."
David McCullough
"Rather than literally burning the midnight oil, which he judged to be unhealthy, John Adams advised his son to make the most of college by developing an inquisitive outlook that would prompt him to get to know the most exceptional scholars and question them closely. "Ask them about their tutors, manner of teaching. Observe what books lie on their tables. Fall into questions of literature, science, or what you will."
David McCullough
"Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know."
David McCullough
"All the money anyone needs is just enough to prevent one from being a burden to others. -Bishop Milton Wright"
David McCullough
"One of the regrets of my life is that I did not study Latin. I'm absolutely convinced, the more I understand these eighteenth century people, that it was that grounding in Greek and Latin that gave them their sense of the classic virtues: the classic ideals of honor, virtue, the good society, and their historic examples of what they could try to live up to."
David McCullough
"Measurements "are never enough. The artist's eye and desire to breathe life into the subject must be the deciding factors."
David McCullough
"[While writing history], I've kept the most interesting company imaginable with people long gone. Some I've come to know better than many I know in real life, since in real life we don't get to read other people's mail."
David McCullough
"You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history."
David McCullough
"To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or musi"
David McCullough
"In an exhibition wherein paintings of nudes were commonplace, that of Madame Gautreau in her black evening dress was considered scandalously erotic. -from The Greater Journey"
David McCullough
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