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John W Gardner Quotes
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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 W Gardner Quotes)
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 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 W Gardner Quotes)
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems (John W Gardner Quotes)
It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six (John W Gardner Quotes)
We have to face the fact that most men and women out there are more stale than they know, more bored than they care to admit (John W Gardner Quotes)
History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable (John W Gardner Quotes)
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure (John W Gardner Quotes)
Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather (John W Gardner Quotes)
When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard (John W Gardner Quotes)
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 W Gardner Quotes)
Renewal is not just innovation and change. It is also the process of bringing the results of change into line with our purposes (John W Gardner Quotes)
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 Quotes)
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems (John W Gardner Quotes)
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. (John W Gardner 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 W Gardner 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 W Gardner 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 W Gardner Quotes)
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 (John W Gardner Quotes)
Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems (John W Gardner Quotes)
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 (John W Gardner Quotes)
I think that all human systems require continuous renewal. They rigidify. They get stuff in the joints. They forget what they cared about. The forces against it are nostalgia and the enormous appeal of having things the way they always have been, appeals to a supposedly happy past. But we’ve got to move on (John W Gardner Quotes)
One exemplary act may affect one life, or even millions of lives. All those who set standards for themselves, who strengthen the bonds of community, who do their work creditably and accept individual responsibility, are building the common future (John W Gardner Quotes)
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 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 W Gardner Quotes)
One generalization that is supported both by research and experience is that effective two-way communication is essential to proper functioning of the leader-follower relationship. (John W Gardner Quotes)
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred (John W Gardner Quotes)
A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive (John W Gardner Quotes)
Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well (John W Gardner Quotes)
True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents (John W Gardner Quotes)
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