John W. Gardner Quotes

• La excelencia es hacer las cosas ordinarias extraordinariamente bien.

  John W. Gardner

  Inspiración, Éxito, Edificante

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• The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

  John W. Gardner

  Philosophy, Rain, Anger

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

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• La vida es el arte de dibujar sin goma de borrar.

  John W. Gardner

  Vida, sabiduría, arte

  "Cracking the Code of Our Physical Universe". Book by Matthew M. Radmanesh (p.269), May, 2006.

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• We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. 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

  Courage, Powerful, Fear

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• Gran parte de la educación actual es monumentalmente ineficaz. Con demasiada frecuencia damos a los jóvenes flores cortadas cuando deberíamos enseñarles a cultivar sus propias plantas.

  John W. Gardner

  Education, Flower, Teaching

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• El extremismo político implica dos ingredientes principales: un diagnóstico excesivamente simple de los males del mundo y la convicción de que hay villanos identificables detrás de todo ello.

  John W. Gardner

  Ignorancia, Simple, Dos

  "A Nation Is Never Finished". ABA Journal, Volume 53, page 1011, November 1967.

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• La verdadera felicidad implica el pleno uso del poder y los talentos de cada uno.

  John W. Gardner

  Inspirational, Happiness, Using Your Talents

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• Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

  John W. Gardner

  Freedom, Creativity, Practice

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• Some people may have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly, by “doin' what comes naturally”; and they don't stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

  John W. Gardner

  Greatness, Discipline, People

  "Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?".

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• Una función primordial de un líder es mantener viva la esperanza.

  John W. Gardner

  Leadership, Hope, Teaching

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• Life is an endless process of self-discovery.

  John W. Gardner

  Discovery, Self, Life Is

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• History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

  John W. Gardner

  Inspirational, History, Looks

  "No Easy Victories". Book by John W. Gardner, December, 1968.

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• At home we have lost the capacity to see what is before us. Travel shakes us out of our apathy, and we regain an attentiveness that heightens every experience. The exhilaration of travel has many sources, but surely one of them is that we recapture in some measure the unspoiled awareness of children.

  John W. Gardner

  Children, Home, Apathy

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• Perhaps the most promising trend in our thinking about leadership is the growing conviction that the purposes of the group are best served when the leader helps followers develop their own initiative, strengthens them in the use of their own judgment, enables them to grow, and to become better contributors.

  John W. Gardner

  Thinking, Leader, Groups

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

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• All of us celebrate our values in our behavior.

  John W. Gardner

  Celebration, Behavior, Celebrate

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• We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final state of affluent misery - crocus on a garbage heap.

  John W. Gardner

  Community, Finals, Garbage

  1969 In the NewYork Times, 9 Oct.

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• Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

  John W. Gardner

  Relationship, People, Society

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• Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means more dollars in his pocket, dollars that he can spend if inflation doesn't consume them first. But dollars in his pocket won't buy him clean streets or an adequate police force or good schools or clean air and water. Handing money back to the private sector in tax cuts and starving the public sector is a formula for producing richer and richer consumers in filthier and filthier communities. If we stick to that formula we shall end up in affluent misery.

  John W. Gardner

  Mean, School, Cutting

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

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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.

  John W. Gardner

  Educación, Enseñanza, Escuela

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• El cínico dice: "Un solo hombre no puede hacer nada". Yo digo: "Sólo un hombre puede hacer algo".

  John W. Gardner

  Business, Men, Cynic

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• I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

  John W. Gardner

  Educación, Escuela, Años

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• Una de las razones por las que la gente deja de aprender es que cada vez está menos dispuesta a arriesgarse a fracasar.

  John W. Gardner

  Failure, Reading, Learning

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• El objetivo último del sistema educativo es trasladar al individuo la carga de proseguir su educación.

  John W. Gardner

  Leadership, Sports, Education

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• One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from one end to the other. Reading the Bible straight through is at least 70 percent discipline, like learning Latin. But the good parts are, of course, simply amazing. God is an extremely uneven writer, but when He's good, nobody can touch Him.

  John W. Gardner

  Latin, Humorous, Reading

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• Los hombres íntegros, por su mera existencia, reavivan la creencia de que como pueblo podemos vivir por encima del nivel de la miseria moral. Necesitamos esa creencia; una comunidad cínica es una comunidad corrupta.

  John W. Gardner

  Integrity, Men, People

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.164, Pickle Partners Publishing

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