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John W. Gardner Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: american
Birth: October 8, 1912 - February 16, 2002

Topics

Creative Free Rest Assumptions Web

I've gone down several paths. I started school as an engineer, but underneath it all, I knew I wanted to use instruments, not build them.

Jidenna

School Paths Down Build Gone Knew

One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.

Andrew Mason

Myself Keep Going Learn Keep Going

We need to unleash the entrepreneurial spirit that is alive in Colorado.

John Hickenlooper

Alive Colorado Spirit Need Unleash

There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist techniques.

Jean-Francois Cope

Religion Political Extreme Who Led

I read the Bible, I speak through issues, I see what I think is hypocrisy in the church and things that are wrong, and I speak to these things. But I could be wrong.

Tony Campolo

Bible Speak Think Church Hypocrisy

I know there's a certain love and affection for the homemade on the Internet, and I'm all for that, too, and I appreciate it in alternative music, and I appreciate it in B-movies and in Sundance, independent films.

Robert Englund

Love Music Appreciate Internet Know

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

Luciano Pavarotti

Myself Fight Better Possible Try

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

Joyce Carol Oates

Man Boxing Ring Possible Third

Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won't recognize them if they change that much.

Donatella Versace

Change People Sometimes Afraid Big

The Republicans are wrong in thinking that the rich create jobs. In reality, many of the richest Americans have been investing in efficiency innovations rather than to create jobs. And the Democrats are wrong, because growth won't happen if they distribute the wealth of the wealthy to everyone else.

Clayton M. Christensen

Growth Rich Thinking Reality Wealth

We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something.

Alma Gluck

Quality Rich Go Quantity Singer He

I spoke English at school and Spanish at home, and I'm always eating Dominican food, listening to Dominican music.

Prince Royce

Home Music Food School Listening