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John W. Gardner
(American Educator)

Nationality:: American
Quote count:: 35
Times favorited:: 34

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(35 quotes found)

John W. Gardner

“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”

John W. Gardner

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John W. Gardner

“Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his own education”

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“Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.”

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“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.”

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“One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.”

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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.”

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“Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.”

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