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Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.
John W. Gardner
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John W. Gardner
Age: 89 †
Born: 1912
Born: October 8
Died: 2002
Died: February 16
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John William Gardner
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The [nonprofit] sector is the natural home of nonmajoritarian impulses, movements and values. It comfortably harbors innovators, maverick movements, groups which feel they must fight for their place in the sun, and critics of both liberal conservative persuasion.
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It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
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The play of conflicting interests in a framework of shared purposes is the drama of a free society. It is a robust exercise, and often a noisy one. It is not for the faint-hearted, or the tidy-minded.
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The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.
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The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be.
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Renewal is not just innovation and change. It is also the process of bringing the results of change into line with our purposes.
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In the United States, to an unprecedented degree, the individual's social role has come to be determined not by who he is but by what he can accomplish.
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For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
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The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a life of aimless diversion.
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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
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In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.
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Leaders develop their styles as they interact with their constituencies. They move toward the style that seems most effective in dealing with the mixture of elements that make up their constituencies.
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The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.
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It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.
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An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.
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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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Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.
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True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
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One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
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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.
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