John W. Gardner Quotes - Page 3

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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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  Communication, Play, Two

  John W. Gardner (1988). “Leadership: An Overview”

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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.

  John W. Gardner

  Creativity, Responsibility, Community

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• In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.

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  Artist, World, Recreation

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• The world loves talent but pays off on character.

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  Character, World Love, Pay

  John W. Gardner's Commencement Address at Stanford Graduate School of Education, gardnercenter.stanford.edu. June 16, 1991.

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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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  Teamwork, Government, Hardship

  John W. Gardner (1971). “The Recovery of Confidence”

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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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  Work, Mean, Responsibility

  John W. Gardner (1971). “The Recovery of Confidence”

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• It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.

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  Reform, Irony, Reformers

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.13, Pickle Partners Publishing

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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

  Innovation, Purpose, Lines

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• When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard.

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  Keys, Two, Judgement

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• The first and last task of aleader is to keep hope alive.

  John W. Gardner

  Leadership, Tasks, Alive

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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.

  John W. Gardner

  Dream, Spring, Civilization

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• The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.

  John W. Gardner

  Fate, Men, Pay

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• An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

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  Education, Teacher, Philosopher

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.97, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down.

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  Men, Good Man, Society

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.12, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

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  Age, Hallmark, Institutions

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• Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

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  Excellence, Mediocrity, Phases

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.171, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.

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  Education, Time, Moving

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• The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

  John W. Gardner

  Men, Ideas, Goal

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.171, Pickle Partners Publishing

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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

  Men, Bored, Care

  "Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society". Book by John W. Gardner, 1964.

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• The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal.

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  Self, Stranger, Individual

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• Perhaps the most striking feature of the [nonprofit] sector is its relative freedom from constraints and its resulting pluralism.

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  Nonprofits, Pluralism, Democratic

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• But if we believe what we profess concerning the worth of the individual, then the idea of individual development within a framework of ethical purpose must become our deepest concern, our national preoccupation, our passion, our obsession. We must think of education as relevant for everyone everywhere - at all ages and in all conditions of life.

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  Life, Believe, Passion

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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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  Leadership, Facts, Unqualified

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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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  Children, Age, Six

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• Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

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  Greatness, People, Perfection

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.103, Pickle Partners Publishing

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