John Gardner
John Gardner
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 July 1933
CountryUnited States of America
learning less mature people reasons risk stop willing
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
amateur impact phenomenal
He has had phenomenal impact on amateur hockey.
disguised faced great series
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.
activity alleged changed conditions fact happening occurred question
The question is not what's happening in 1998, but what if any anticompetitive activity occurred in the past. The fact that competitive conditions have changed would not vitiate any alleged anticompetitive activity in the past.
goes-on whispering world
I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words--changing nothing.
enmity world saws
i understand that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. i understood that, finally and absolutely, i alone exist. all the rest, i saw, is merely what pushes me, or what i push against, blindly - as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. i create the whole universe, blink by blink.