John W. Gardner Quotes - Page 4

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• Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.

  John W. Gardner

  Happiness, Use, Thumbs

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• If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.

  John W. Gardner

  Promise, Our Society, Misery

  "No Easy Victories". Book by John William Gardner, ed. Helen Rowan, Harper & Row, p. 57, 1968.

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• There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

  John W. Gardner

  Failure, Learning, Want

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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.

  John W. Gardner

  Home, Fighting, Groups

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• One generalization that is supported both by research and experience is that effective two-way communication is essential to proper functioning of the leader-follower relationship.

  John W. Gardner

  Communication, Two, Leader

  JOHN W. GARDNER (1986). “LEADERSHIP PAPERS/3: THE HEART OF THE MATTER LEADER-CONSTITUENT INTERACTION”

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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.

  John W. Gardner

  United States, Degrees, Roles

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• Americans have always believed that-within the law-all kinds of people should be allowed to take the initiative in all kinds of activities. And out of that pluralism has come virtually all of our creativity. Freedom is real only to the extent that there are diverse alternatives.

  John W. Gardner

  Real, Creativity, Science

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• Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests.

  John W. Gardner

  Special, Unseen, Politics

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• The ablest and most effective leaders do not hold to a single style; they may be highly supportive in personal relations when that is needed, yet capable of a quick, authoritative decision when the situation requires it.

  John W. Gardner

  Decision, Leader, Style

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