John W. Gardner
John W. Gardner
John William Gardner,was Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfareunder President Lyndon Johnson...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth8 October 1912
CountryUnited States of America
nonprofits pluralism democratic
Perhaps the most striking feature of the [nonprofit] sector is its relative freedom from constraints and its resulting pluralism.
moving leader style
Leaders develop their styles as they interact with their constituencies. They move toward the style that seems most effective in dealing with the mixture of elements that make up their constituencies.
art creativity practice
Creativity requires the freedom to consider 'unthinkable' alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices. Every organization, every society is under the spell of assumptions so familiar that they are never questioned, least of all by those most intimately involved.
leadership lasts firsts
The first and last task of aleader is to keep hope alive.
moving men world
One man interacting creatively with others can move the world.
fate men pay
The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.
leadership unqualified facts
If the modern leader doesn't know the facts, he is in grave trouble, but rarely do the facts provide unqualified guidance.
islands sea excellence
We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.
stars perfection excellence
Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.
politics poverty talent
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
character responsibility community
One exemplary act may affect one life, or even millions of lives. All those who set standards for themselves, who strengthen the bonds of community, who do their work creditably and accept individual responsibility, are building the common future.
teamwork government hardship
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
ignorance simple two
Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
self stranger individual
The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal.