John W. Gardner Quotes

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

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Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

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The cynic says, ''One man can't do anything.'' I say, ''Only one man can do anything.''

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The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

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The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be (which means, of course, that he has achieved a certain measure of detachment from what is).

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We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.

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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.

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