The cynic says, One man can't do anything. I say, Only one man can do anything. - John Gardner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach. - John Gardner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs. - John Gardner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More and more Americans are appalled by the ravages of industrial progress, by the defacement of nature, by man-made ugliness. If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery. - John Gardner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The university became the major generator of U.S. research. That caused an opportunity and an obligation to turn that research into results, putting research and education together. - John Gardner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality. - John Gardner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I will be calling the United States Consulate on Tuesday morning to ascertain what types of relief agencies should be considered and more specifically if there is one that will provide aid to children specifically. - John Gardner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government. - John Gardner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. - John Gardner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents. - John Gardner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Political extremism involves two prime ingredients an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all. - John Gardner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Think of the impact that this is going to have on that university. It's not only a ready-made employer, it's also a proving ground, a place where students can hone their skills ... And for the company, it's like having a well-trained work force at their back door, literally. - John Gardner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept. - John Gardner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life. - John Gardner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
He has had phenomenal impact on amateur hockey. - John Gardner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Gardner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. - John Gardner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
History never looks like history when you are living through it. - John Gardner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see. - John Gardner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Gardner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college. - John Gardner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else. - John Gardner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the US. government is virtually up for sale. - John Gardner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
If they want students to do anything, like reading a newspaper, drinking less alcohol or visiting the library, they need to introduce them to it early. - John Gardner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
A lot of our clients are older and have been trading up in homes, but as their kids move out they're reluctant to 'buy down' because of capital gains. This provision is getting a lot of interest. - John Gardner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Vernon Jordan, Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 85