Chris Gardner (Christopher Paul Gardner) Quotes
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What people don't understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally.
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You may think that all your happiness depends upon obtaining one particular thing in life; later on, you praise the Lord that you didn't get it.
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Your customer is anyone who depends on you, or who you depend on for success.
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The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present.
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Our very life depends on everythings' recurring til we answer from within.
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The causes we know everything about depend on causes we know very little about, which depend on causes we know absolutely nothing about.
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A man's reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit he shows.
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The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.
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You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.
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It is a law, that every event depends on some law.
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My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
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Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity.
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Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.
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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.
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I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.
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Whenever truth stands in the mind unaccompanied by the evidence upon which it depends, it cannot properly be said to be apprehended at all.
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Our future depends on how we understand the past.
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Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.
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Someone, somewhere, is making a product that will make your product obsolete.
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God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.
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They were saying you would be a tremendous addition to the military, and we can get you into West Point with a full scholarship. And I simply said, I want to be a doctor. I really appreciate it.
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You can only depend on yourself. The cavalry aint coming.
