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John W. Gardner Quotes
«Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.»
Author: John W. Gardner
(Secretary, Writer)
| About:
Excellence
| Keywords:
excellence, extraordinarily, ordinary
«Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.»
Author: John W. Gardner
(Secretary, Writer)
| About:
Pity
| Keywords:
addictive, destructive, momentary, narcotic, narcotics, pity, self-pity, separates, Separate reality, The Victim, victim
«Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.»
Author: John W. Gardner
(Secretary, Writer)
| About:
Education,
Teachers and teaching,
Youth
| Keywords:
all too, cut, ineffective, plants, teaching
«We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.»
Author: John W. Gardner
(Secretary, Writer)
| About:
Opportunity
| Keywords:
brilliantly, disguised, disguises, disguising, faced, insoluble, opportunities, series
«One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.»
«Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.»
Author: John W. Gardner
(Secretary, Writer)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
conviction, diagnoses, diagnosis, excessively, extremism, identifiable, ills, ingredients, involves, prime, primed, villains
«Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.»
«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.»
Author: John W. Gardner
(Secretary, Writer)
| Keywords:
assumptions, pressures, questioning, The web, web