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If the modern leader doesn't know the facts, he is in grave trouble, but rarely do the facts provide unqualified guidance.
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 society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
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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.
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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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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 [nonprofit] sector enhances our creativity, enlivens our communities, nurtures individual responsibility, stirs life at the grassroots, and reminds us that we were born free.
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Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.
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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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Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.
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An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.
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Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
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The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.
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The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.
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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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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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In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.
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All of us celebrate our values in our behavior.
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Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, You can't keep a good man down. Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down.
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All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.
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