Quotes of John Gardner - somelinesforyou

“ Pity the leader caught between unloving critics and uncritical lovers. ”

- John Gardner

“ Leaders can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts. ”

- John Gardner

“ Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. ”

- John Gardner

“ This highest kind of truth is never something the artist takes as given. It's not his point of departure but his goal. Though the artist has beliefs, like other people, he realizes that a salient characteristic of art is its radical openness to persuasion. Even those beliefs he's surest of, the artist puts under pressure to see if they will stand. ”

- John Gardner

“ The best way a writer can find to keep himself going is to live off his (or her) spouse. The trouble is that, psychologically at least, it’s hard. Our culture teaches none of its false lessons more carefully than that one should never be dependent. Hence the novice or still unsuccessful writer, who has enough trouble believing in himself, has the added burden of shame. It’s hard to be a good writer and a guilty person; a lack of selfrespect creeps into one’s prose. ”

- John Gardner

“ I know everything, you see,' the old voice wheedled. 'The beginning, the present, the end. Everything. You now, you see the past and the present, like other low creatures: no higher faculties than memory and perception. But dragons, my boy, have a whole different kind of mind.' He stretched his mouth in a kind of smile, no trace of pleasure in it. 'We are from the mountaintop: all time, all space. We see in one instant the passionate vision and the blowout. ”

- John Gardner

“ If they want students to do anything, like reading a newspaper, drinking less alcohol or visiting the library, they need to introduce them to it early. ”

- John Gardner

“ If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college. ”

- John Gardner

“ If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college. ”

- John Gardner

“ Talking, talking, spinning a spell, pale skin of words that closes me in like a coffin. ”

- John Gardner

“ Pity the leader caught between unloving critics and uncritical lovers. ”

- John Gardner

“ The trend towards throwing new laws at everything continues apace. ”

- John Gardner

“ The trend towards throwing new laws at everything continues apace. ”

- John Gardner

“ Talking, talking, spinning a spell, pale skin of words that closes me in like a coffin. ”

- John Gardner

“ If they want students to do anything, like reading a newspaper, drinking less alcohol or visiting the library, they need to introduce them to it early. ”

- John Gardner

“ When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. ”

- John Gardner

“ It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs. ”

- John Gardner

“ If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college. ”

- John Gardner

“ We're trying to put the pieces together. To be where we are right now? At the start of the season, you'd take that in a second. ”

- John Gardner

“ If they want students to do anything, like reading a newspaper, drinking less alcohol or visiting the library, they need to introduce them to it early. ”

- John Gardner

“ To be human is inevitably, to hate oneself sometimes, to hunger for the perfect stability and in a way the perfect justice — or at least perfect punishment for our numerous imperfections — called death. ”

- John Gardner

“ To be human is inevitably, to hate oneself sometimes, to hunger for the perfect stability and in a way the perfect justice — or at least perfect punishment for our numerous imperfections — called death. ”

- John Gardner

“ The university became the major generator of U.S. research. That caused an opportunity and an obligation to turn that research into results, putting research and education together. ”

- John Gardner

“ The university became the major generator of U.S. research. That caused an opportunity and an obligation to turn that research into results, putting research and education together. ”

- John Gardner

“ The university became the major generator of U.S. research. That caused an opportunity and an obligation to turn that research into results, putting research and education together. ”

- John Gardner

“ If they want students to do anything, like reading a newspaper, drinking less alcohol or visiting the library, they need to introduce them to it early. ”

- John Gardner

“ To be human is inevitably, to hate oneself sometimes, to hunger for the perfect stability and in a way the perfect justice — or at least perfect punishment for our numerous imperfections — called death. ”

- John Gardner

“ The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can. ”

- John Gardner

“ Most important, leaders can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts. ”

- John Gardner

“ The university became the major generator of U.S. research. That caused an opportunity and an obligation to turn that research into results, putting research and education together. ”

- John Gardner
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