Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
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Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.John W. Gardner
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
John W. Gardner
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.
John W. Gardner
All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.
John W. Gardner
Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.
John W. Gardner
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