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The world loves talent but pays off on character.
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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What leaders have to remember is that somewhere under the somnolent surface is the creature that builds civilizations, the dreamer of dreams, the risk taker. And remembering that, the leader must reach down to the springs that never dry up, the ever-fresh springs of the human spirit.
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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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Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.
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Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.
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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure.
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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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In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.
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A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.
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All that we know about the interaction between leaders and constituents or followers tells us that communication and influence flow in both directions and in that two-way communication, nonrational, nonverbal, and unconscious elements play their part.
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True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
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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 hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.
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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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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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If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota.
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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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At home we have lost the capacity to see what is before us. Travel shakes us out of our apathy, and we regain an attentiveness that heightens every experience. The exhilaration of travel has many sources, but surely one of them is that we recapture in some measure the unspoiled awareness of children.
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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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The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.
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When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
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