One of George H. W. Bush's early teachers at Andover wrote, At the moment he is intellectually immature for his powers of reasoning are not entirely developed.

~ H.w. Brands

H.w. Brands Education Maturation Perspective Potential

It is more important to me that my students come out of my class believing 'This story is interesting and I might want to know more about it', than to fill them up with information. If I can remind them or convince them that history is interesting then I feel I have succeeded, because unlike chemistry or physics, history is a subject that anyone can teach themselves, if they are interested.[

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H.w. Brands Curiosity Education Inspirationu

He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.

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H.w. Brands Ambition Culture Education Family

He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.

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H.w. Brands Graciousness Leadership Motivation

The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity.

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H.w. Brands Compromise Extremism Leadership Zealotry

His was a quiet but persistent charisma.

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H.w. Brands Confidence Humility Leadership Steadiness

He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life.

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H.w. Brands Calmness Countenance Imagery Leadership Nonchalance

I can see that spark coming back when he talks about the future.

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H.w. Brands Charisma Inspiration Leadership Marriage Optimism

He made his character his platform.

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H.w. Brands Discipleship Inspiration Leadership

Such was the code: Strive for victory, but never seem to be self-involved.

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H.w. Brands Appearances Humility It Imagery Leadership

The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along.

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H.w. Brands Culture Influence Leadership Radicalization

Time after time during the next six months, he would put me together again.

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H.w. Brands Continuity Discipleship Friendship Longitudinal Marriage Relationships

Reagan to son: how really great is the challenge of proving your masculinity and charm with one woman for the rest of your life. Any man can find a twerp here and there who will go along with cheating, and it doesn’t take all that much manhood. It does take quite a man to remain attractive and to be loved by a woman who has heard him snore, seen him unshaven, tended him while he was sick and washed his dirty underwear. Do that and keep her still feeling a warm glow and you will know some very beautiful music.

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H.w. Brands Marriage

A live-in domestic worker: You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.

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H.w. Brands Calling Family Identity Job Vocation

A young mark twain on the make: I can't turn in inkstand into Aladdin's lamp.

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H.w. Brands Calling Creativity Job Vocation Writing

Abilene possessed greater vision, perhaps because it possessed little else.

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H.w. Brands Creativity Inventiveness Openness Status Quo

He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time.

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H.w. Brands Calling Depression Distraction Vocation Work

Accustomed to motion, he was forced to be still.

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H.w. Brands Discipleship Habit Patience Prayer Reflection Solitude

His charm was not electric, but it was enveloping.

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H.w. Brands Charisma Friendship Trust

He was a product of a culture where it was generally counterproductive to hold grudges.

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H.w. Brands Forgiveness Friendship Graciousness

He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind's eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success.

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H.w. Brands And Concentration Aptitude Imagination Leadership Visualization

This senate was a place where good Representatives went when they died. Thomas Reed

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H.w. Brands Ambitious Compassion Responsiveness

The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal

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H.w. Brands Calling Job Ministry Perspective Vocation

I believe the road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master IN THAT LINE. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources. Andrew Carnegie

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H.w. Brands Calling Contentment Job Locatio Contentment Vocation

Ben Franklin advises his grandson not to let even the American Revolution interrupt his studies, urging of young adulthood, This is the time of life in which you are to lay the foundations of your future improvement and of your importance among men. If this season is neglected, it will be like cutting off the spring from the year.

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H.w. Brands Education Reaction Young Adult

Proving himself to himself was no small matter.

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H.w. Brands Experience Self Confidence

Both sides had more confidence in their opponents' weaknesses than their own strength.

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H.w. Brands Culture Gossip Slander

Once information slipped the bonds of gravity and friction, it tended to gather where it was most valuable.

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H.w. Brands Cities Civilization Culture Curiosity Media Technology

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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H.w. Brands Civilization Culture Internet Popularity Social Media Technology

It may be that the voice of the people is the voice of God 51 times out of 100. But the remaining 49 times, it is the voice of the devil, or worse, the voice of a fool. Theodore Roosevelt

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H.w. Brands Culture Discernment Popularity

The first 10 days of a cattle drive were the most critical, as a stampede was most likely when the cattle were closest to their habitual home.

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H.w. Brands Addiction Culture Discipleship Idolatry Lifestyle

Looking back on his adolescence from the vantage point of his mid-eighties, George H.W. Bush candidly admitted, I might have been obsessed with bodies – boobs they are now called. But what seventeen-year-old kid was not? Guilty am I.

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H.w. Brands Graciousness Maturation Parenting Perspective

Bushes may not be eloquent explaining emotion, but George HW Bush's mother knew enough to be in position with her children were ready to talk. She waited up not just to ensure safety but to make the most of the moment of excited emotions. The next morning, they would congeal into polite, one-word answers.

~ H.w. Brands

H.w. Brands Intimacy Listening Parenting

One with God is always a majority. But many have been burned at the stake while the boats were being counted. Thomas Reed

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H.w. Brands Depravity Justice Persecution

Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and adapted the discoveries of others.

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H.w. Brands Curiosity Humility Openness

When he came in first, he was happy to find all sorts of meaning in the results.

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H.w. Brands Bias Optimism Perspective

Teain had no difficulty generating the indignation of a satirist. He lack the patience of a reformer.

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H.w. Brands Complaining Optimism Vision

In the immediate aftermath of the great Chicago fire, a business proprietor erected a shack in front of his burned-out business. On a sign, he placed his name and the tagline that everything was gone but wife, children, and energy.

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H.w. Brands Emotion Hope Optimism Resilience

He did something he rarely did. He decided not to see things from the other guy's point of view.

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H.w. Brands Bias Consistency Graciousness Perspective Self Discipline

Theodore Roosevelt came to Dekota to experience the dying of one age with the slaying of a rare buffalo and the dawning of the West's industrial age.

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H.w. Brands Curiosity Maturation Perspective
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