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
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  1. Love, too, has to be learned. - Friedrich Nietzsche

  2. Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own. - Michel De Montaigne

  3. But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them. - Sarah Dessen

  4. One way or another, I think we are all destined to learn the same lessons in life. Universal truths are universal truths. They cannot be changed. - Richelle E. Goodrich

  5. The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. - Voltaire

More Quotes By Doris Kearns Goodwin
  1. Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

  2. There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

  3. Listen Anna, if we don’t believe the things we put on our agendas will come true for us, then there’s no hope for us. We’re going to be saved by what we seriously put on our agendas.

  4. Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.

  5. I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

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