Quote: Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. [John Gardner]
Quote: Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. [John Gardner]
Quote: The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept. [John Gardner]
Quote: Never underestimate the importance of nastiness to our progress thus far. If intelligence and gentleness were the chief criteria, our planet would be ruled by whales. [John Gardner]
Quote: Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach. [John Gardner]
Quote: One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. [John Gardner]
Quote: Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality. [John Gardner]
Quote: 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 Gardner]
Quote: The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions. [John Gardner]
Quote: Most men and women go through their lives using no more than a fraction -- usually a rather small fraction -- of the potentialities within them. The reservoir of unused human talent and energy is vast, and learning to tap that reservoir more effectively is one of the exciting tasks ahead for humankind. [John Gardner]
Quote: Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage. [John Gardner]