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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.
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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America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
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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.
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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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The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.
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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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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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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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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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An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.
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All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.
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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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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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