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(338 votes)   Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

John W. Gardner
1912-, American Educator, Social Activist

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

John W. Gardner
1912-, American Educator, Social Activist

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

John W. Gardner
1912-, American Educator, Social Activist

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(91 votes)   We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.

John W. Gardner
1912-, American Educator, Social Activist

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(90 votes)   America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

John W. Gardner
1912-, American Educator, Social Activist

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(87 votes)   The cynic says, ''One man can't do anything.'' I say, ''Only one man can do anything.''

John W. Gardner
1912-, American Educator, Social Activist

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(83 votes)   True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

John W. Gardner
1912-, American Educator, Social Activist

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(82 votes)   The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

John William Gardner

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(81 votes)   "Life is the art of drawing without an eraser."

john gardner
American novelist and university teacher

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(81 votes)   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
1912-, American Educator, Social Activist

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(76 votes)   "Life is the art of drawing without an eraser."

john gardner
Amerian novelist and university teacher

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(74 votes)   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
1912-, American Educator, Social Activist

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(73 votes)   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.

John W. Gardner

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(72 votes)   For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

John W. Gardner
1912-, American Educator, Social Activist

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(68 votes)   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
1912-, American Educator, Social Activist

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