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In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.
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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All of us celebrate our values in our behavior.
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Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.
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A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.
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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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We need more than individual value systems we need a shared vision. A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs, shared attitudes. That is what enables a people to maintain a cohesive society despite the tensions of daily life. That is what enables them to rise above the conflicts that plague any society.
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Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
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The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.
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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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An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.
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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
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True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
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Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.
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For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
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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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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 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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Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.
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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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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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One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
John W. Gardner
