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Though [abraham Lincoln] Never Would Travel To Europe, He Went With Shakespeare's Kings To Merry England; He Went With Lord Byron Poetry To Spain And Portugal. Literature Allowed Him To Transcend His Surroundings.

One Of The Important Qualities That I Think Is Often Overlooked Is Just Energy. It's Vitality, And Sort Of A Life Force That Some People Have And Others Don't. Probably That Is Connected To A Love Of Whatever It Is That They're Doing. Another Quality That I Think Is Central Is Confidence. Again, Some People Are More Blessed With That Than Others.

I Think The Most Important Advice Is, A Person Doesn't Have To Find Out Right Away. It's Not Like Their First Attempt At Finding A Profession Is The Only One They're Going To Find. I Might Well Have Gone Down Other Paths, And It Still Might Have Been Okay. But If You Find Something That You Love, And If It Keeps Deepening With Each New Experience, Then Just Stay With It.

Ironically, The More Intensive And Far-reaching A Historian's Research, The Greater The Difficulty Of Citation. As The Mountain Of Material Grows, So Does The Possibility Of Error.

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.