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The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be.
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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California
John William Gardner
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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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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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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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The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.
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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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Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.
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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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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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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
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Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
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Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.
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In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.
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