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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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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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One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
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All of us celebrate our values in our behavior.
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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 man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.
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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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Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.
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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure.
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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.
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I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
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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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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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To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.
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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 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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The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.
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An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.
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The world loves talent but pays off on character.
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A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.
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