One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
More Quotes from John W. Gardner:
The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.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
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
John W. Gardner
The cynic says, "One man can't do anything." I say, "Only one man can do anything."
John W. Gardner
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
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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