
“You have to be let alone to really accomplish anything.”
Interview by Hubert Saal, "Dylan is Back," Newsweek (26 February 1968)
Book 1; On the necessity of standards
Mozi
“You have to be let alone to really accomplish anything.”
Interview by Hubert Saal, "Dylan is Back," Newsweek (26 February 1968)
“Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.”
Statement of 1876, in The Diary of James A. Garfield: 1875-1877 (1983), edited by Harry James Brown and Frederick D. Williams. p. 396
1870s
Context: Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much.
Thoughts and Glimpses (1916-17)
Adventures of a Bystander (1979) (Autobiography)
1960s - 1980s
As quoted in Life on the Circuit with Lincoln (1892) by Henry Clay Witney
Posthumous attributions
Variant: To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.
Scott Pitoniak (June 3, 2007) "Smith's feet flashing to a new beat", Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, p. 1D, 7D.
“Believe in yourself and you can accomplish anything.”
Wake-up words on Vine https://vine.co/v/OrYTHrW7hWP, 2014