Quote: 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]
Quote: It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government. [John W. Gardner]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems. [John W. Gardner]
Quote: For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. [John W. Gardner]
Quote: 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]