John W. Gardner
Quotations
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“Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.” -John W. Gardner
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“Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.” -John W. Gardner
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“It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.” -John W. Gardner
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“True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.” -John W. Gardner
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“When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.” -John W. Gardner
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“True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.” -John W. Gardner
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“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” -John W. Gardner
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“One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.” -John W. Gardner
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“History never looks like history when you are living through it.” -John W. Gardner
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“True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.” -John W. Gardner
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“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities – brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.” -John W. Gardner
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“When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.” -John W. Gardner
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“It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.” -John W. Gardner
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“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.” -John W. Gardner
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“America’s greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.” -John W. Gardner
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“One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.” -John W. Gardner
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“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” -John W. Gardner
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“I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.” -John W. Gardner
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“Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.” -John W. Gardner
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“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” -John W. Gardner
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The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions. – John W. Gardner
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