"There are blessed intervals when I forget..." - Quote by Woodrow Wilson
There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.
More by Woodrow Wilson
“I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.”
“My best training came from my father.”
“The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose. No one can mistake the purpose for which the nation now seeks to use the Democratic party. It seeks to use it to interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.”
More on Leadership
“Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail... A man in the crowd asked how he liked it, and his reply was that if it wasn't for the honor of the thing, he would much rather walk.”
“Doubtless you begin to understand how disagreeable it is to me to do a thing arbitrarily, when it is unsatisfactory to others associated with me.”
“My power vanishes into thin air the instant that my fellow citizens, who are straight and honest, cease to believe that I represent them and fight for what is straight and honest. That is all the strength that I have.”
More on Stress
“Stress is wanting something to be the way it isn't.”
“Stressful energy arises when you think some future moment is more important than the present moment, and the doing becomes only a means to an end.”
“As long as you have a set of beliefs or lack of skills that make you feel you have at the effect of life, you're going to have enormous stress and the quality of your life will go down.”