124 Quotes by Howard Gardner

While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.

If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.

Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.

I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not.

I think tolerating a certain degree of failure-not because it's good for you but because it's a necessary part of growth-is a very important part of the message the leadership can give.

Over time and cultures, the most robust and most effective form of communication is the creation of a powerful narrative,

I often find that entrepreneurs think my theory is great. My interpretation is that they are people who weren't considered that smart in school because they didn't have good notation skills-you know, moving little symbols around.