Howard Gardner Quotes

"Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong."
- Howard Gardner
(Related: Problems, Software, Wrong, Years)

"Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit."
- Howard Gardner
(Related: Leader)

"I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc."
- Howard Gardner
(Related: Content, Language, World, Years)

"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."
- Howard Gardner
(Related: Environmental, Limitations, Parents)

"A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization."
- Howard Gardner
(Related: Time, People, Knowledge, Culture, May, Talk)

"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."
- Howard Gardner
(Related: Music, Accuracy)