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
history history-and-memory looks
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
two keys judgement
When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard.
discipline excellence purpose
All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.
running being-yourself clever
Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.
creative gaps individual
The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be.
karma men reckoning
To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.
dream spring civilization
What leaders have to remember is that somewhere under the somnolent surface is the creature that builds civilizations, the dreamer of dreams, the risk taker. And remembering that, the leader must reach down to the springs that never dry up, the ever-fresh springs of the human spirit.
law natural species
All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.
age hallmark institutions
The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.
failure pay heavy
We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure.
freedom commitment greatness
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.
leadership hope alive
A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.
greatness people discipline
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Few have excellence thrust upon them ... They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly by doing what comes naturally and they don't stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.
government two presidential
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.