"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities – brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems." ― John W. Gardner Topic(s): Great More From John W. Gardner "True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents." "Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants." "It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government." More In Great "If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way."― Napoleon Hill "As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field."― Billy Corgan "Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night."― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow