"By nature, I am not an optimist, though……" — Howard Gardner

"By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am."

— Howard Gardner

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49 Quotes by Howard Gardner

Howard Gardner has 49 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

To ask "Where in your brain is intelligence?" is like asking "Where is the voice in the radio?"
Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.
Now intelligence seemed quantifiable. You could measure someone's actual or potential height, and now, it seemed, you could also measure…
Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.
If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a…
What we want... is for students to get more interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting…
You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.
We've got to do fewer things in school. The greatest enemy of understanding is coverage... You've got to take enough…
If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to…
Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.
Knowledge is not the same as morality, but we need to understand if we are to avoid past mistakes and…
It's not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart.

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More Act Quotes

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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