John W. Gardner Quotes

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

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• I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Street
  • Champagne
  • Soup

• Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Power
  • Politics
  • Influence

• Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • Best
  • Politicians
  • Seriously

• When I got drafted by Minnesota, and I think I said this a couple weeks ago, I think I felt obligated to bring a Super Bowl to Minnesota.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Think
  • Couple
  • Said

• Tech companies tend to do tech best.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Best
  • Tend
  • Tech

• In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Suffering
  • Importance
  • Scale

• Obviously, local elections are where you can make the most difference, but it's great when everyone starts talking about what they believe in.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Difference

• I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Future

• I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me.

  

  Sally Struthers
  • People
  • Kids
  • Young

• I love the Cannes Film Festival. From the lavish parties and events to the red carpet attire, this star-studded week-long event is where I get a lot of inspiration for hair and fashion.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Love
  • Fashion
  • Film

• I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Born
  • England
  • I Was Born

• Charity is very difficult to do right. Thinking through what people need: You can't start a charity without that. It's like starting a business without the product.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Business

• I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Age
  • Doing
  • Young

• For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Look
  • Wait
  • Diet

• If we had to pose for every single person at the Eat & Greets, we wouldn't get to speak to anyone that's there, and we definitely wouldn't get to serve them food.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Food
  • Single
  • Speak

• The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Done

• How tell what remains ? But it’s the end. Or have I been dreaming, am I dreaming? No no, none of that, for dream is nothing, a joke, and significant what is worse.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Dream

• Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Great

• Dream big, work hard and don't be an asshole!

  

  Mike Shinoda Linkin Park
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Asshole

• A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Work
  • Free

• The raw materials of story are the raw materials of all human cultures. Story deals with the same questions as theology, philosophy, psychology. It is concerned with polarities: love and hate, birth and death, joy and sorrow, loss and recovery.

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Death
  • Hate
  • Joy

• I can't go to war with paparazzi.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • War
  • Go
  • Paparazzi

• I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Freedom
  • Excellence
  • Classical Music

• Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

  

  John W. Gardner
  • Excellence