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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.
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 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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The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.
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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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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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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 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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An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.
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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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Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.
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All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.
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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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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure.
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