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We have to face the fact that most men and women out there are more stale than they know, more bored than they care to admit.
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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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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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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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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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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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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In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.
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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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One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
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For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
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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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Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.
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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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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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Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.
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True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
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