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5/29/11

John W. Gardner Quotes


"Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well." ~John W. Gardner

"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser." ~John W. Gardner

"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." ~John W. Gardner

"There's something in us that fiercely resists change. And there's something else in us that welcomes it, finds it embracing it; even to seek it out." ~John Gardner

"True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents." ~John W. Gardner

“We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images - a dog hunting through garbage cans, a plane circling above Alaskan mountains, an old lady furtively licking her napkin at a party. We slip into a dream, forgetting the room we're sitting in, forgetting it's lunchtime or time to go to work.” ~John Gardner

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