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Category: John W. Gardner

John W. Gardner

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

Living, You, Through

John W. Gardner

True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.

Motivational, Power, Talents

John W. Gardner

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

Learning, Risk, People

John W. Gardner

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

People, Better, You

John W. Gardner

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Government, Responsible

John W. Gardner

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.

John W. Gardner

To sensible men every day is a day of reckoning.

John W. Gardner

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

history, historians

John W. Gardner

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

failures, mistakes

John W. Gardner

John Milton called his school Christ College ‘a stony-hearted stepmother’. The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

John W. Gardner

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.

failure, inspiration, risk

John W. Gardner

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.