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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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John W. Gardner
Age: 89 †
Born: 1912
Born: October 8
Died: 2002
Died: February 16
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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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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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Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.
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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
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A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.
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All of us celebrate our values in our behavior.
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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.
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Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.
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The ablest and most effective leaders do not hold to a single style they may be highly supportive in personal relations when that is needed, yet capable of a quick, authoritative decision when the situation requires it.
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Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
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If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.
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We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final state of affluent misery - crocus on a garbage heap.
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