“There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new.” PeopleFirstsReasonAmericaSpiritPossibilityEastSomething NewOpennessStemCoastEast CoastPioneeringPioneering Spirit Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen
“To work hard. To open new doors for our kids, for our grandkids. To renew our spirit. That's what America is about.” HardKidsAmericaSpiritDoorsHard WorkGrandkids Author:Joe Kyrillos
“MEN WALK ON THE MOON. To me, this speaks of a time when America wasn't just about the almighty buck. The Russians had put up Sputnik, and the U.S. would not be outdone. I admire that about the American spirit. There's only one spot in history for the first ever of anything.” MenFirstsAmericaSpiritSpeakWalksMoonAdmireSpotsAlmightyBucksAmerican SpiritSputnik Author:Nathan Fillion
“President Reagan fueled the spirit of America. His smile, his optimism, his total belief in the ultimate triumph of democracy and freedom, and his willingness to act on that belief, helped end the Cold War and usher in a new and brighter phase of history.” WarEndsAmericaSpiritBeliefPresidentDemocracyColdOptimismUltimateTriumphWillingnessPhasesCold WarBrighterHis SmilePresident Reagan Author:Colin Powell
“I know this about the American people: We welcome competition. We'll match our ingenuity, our energy, our experience and technology, our spirit and enterprise against anyone.” PeopleKnowsAmericaSpiritEnergyTechnologyCompetitionWelcomeEnterpriseIngenuity Author:George H. W. Bush
“To many of us now, computers, silicon chips, data processing, cybernetics, and all the other innovations of the dawning high technology age are as mystifying as the workings of the combustion engine must have been when that first Model T rattled down Main Street, U.S.A. But as surely as America's pioneer spirit made us the industrial giant of the 20th century, the same pioneer spirit today is opening up on another vast front of opportunity, the frontier of high technology.” FirstsHas BeensMadeAgeTodayAmericaSpiritOpportunityTechnologyStreetsCenturyFrontsComputerModelsInnovationOpeningDataGiantsEngines20th CenturyChipsFrontiersPioneersProcessingSiliconOpening UpCyberneticsMain StreetCombustionHigh TechnologyPioneer SpiritModel T Author:Ronald Reagan
“Jeffersonian isolationism expressed an essentially cosmopolitan spirit. The Jeffersonian was determined - even at the expense of separating himself from the rest of the globe, and even though he be charged with provincial selfishness - to preserve America as an uncontaminated laboratory.” AmericaSpiritDeterminedSelfishnessPreservesExpensesGlobesLaboratorySeparatingIsolationism Book:The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson Source: The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson
“In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. For when we have faced down impossible odds; when we've been told that we're not ready, or that we shouldn't try, or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes we can.” PeopleTryingStoriesAmericaSpiritSimpleImpossibleGenerationsReadyCreedsOddsUnlikelyNot ReadyYes We CanImpossible Odds Book:Change We Can Believe In Source: Change We Can Believe In
“Liberty is so great a magician, endowed with so marvelous a power of productivity, that under the inspiration of this spirit alone, North America was able within less than a century to equal, and even surpass, the civilization of Europe.” InspirationAbleAmericaSpiritLibertyCenturyCivilizationEqualEuropeProductivityMarvelousMagicianNorth America Author:Mikhail Bakunin
“From the windows of my office in Boston ... I can see the Golden Stairs from Boston Harbor where all eight of my great-grandparents set foot on this great land for the first time. That immigrant spirit of limitless possibility animates America even today.” FirstsI CanTodayAmericaSpiritFeetLandPossibilityOfficeFirst TimeWindowEightGoldenImmigrantsGrandparentBostonLimitlessHarborsStairsGreat GrandparentsLimitless Possibilities Author:Edward Kennedy
“The spirit of the West, of America, is different than the East. The cultural conditioning is very different. It seems to be harder for people to work in teams, more difficult for people here to live in harmony, in a monastery.” PeopleDifferentSeemsAmericaSpiritDifficultTeamBuddhismHarderHarmonyWestEastConditioningMonasteries Author:Frederick Lenz
“I think the spirit of America, one American wanting to make another American's life better, or internationally our desire to see countries do better, or people in countries do better, coming from this concept of volunteerism is a very valid and important part of our internal being.” PeopleThinkingImportantCountryAmericaSpiritDesireConceptsInternalsVolunteerism Author:George H. W. Bush