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

• Half or more of the best new work in the last few years has been neither painting nor sculpture. Usually it has been related, closely or distantly, to one or the other. The work is diverse, and much in it that is not in painting and sculpture is also diverse. But there are some things that occur nearly in common.

  

  Donald Judd
  • Work
  • Painting

• I once told you that I am not a saint, and I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a mistake. So I will close with another confession. Frequently, along the tortuous road of recent months from this chamber to the Presidents House, I protested that I was my own man. Now I realize that I was wrong. I am your man, for it was your carefully weighed confirmation that changed my occupation. The truth is I am the peoples man, for you acted in their name, and I accepted and began my new and solemn trust with a promise to serve all the people and do the best that I can for America.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Mistake
  • Saint
  • I Hope

• I'm an energetic person. I work hard.

  

  Keith Ellison
  • Work

• In my house, a hot dog is a dog that's really hot.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • House
  • Dog
  • Hot

• Always define your area of excellence. Establish the area where you will be the best.

  

  Farrah Gray
  • Excellence
  • Areas

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

  

  John W. Gardner
  • Excellence