54 ordspråk av John W. Gardner
John W. Gardner
John W. Gardner föddes den October 8th 1912 och dog den 16 February 2002 - of Health, Education and Welfare.
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 Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality. |
| Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality. |
| Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality. |
| Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. |
| Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are. |
| Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents. |
| Take the statistical view of rascals and fools. There are so many per thousand in the population; you have to meet your share. If you seem to be meeting more than your share, lie down: you may be tired. |
| 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. |
| The cynic says, "One man can't do anything." I say, "Only one man can do anything." |
| The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions. |
| 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. |
| The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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