Chris Gardner (Christopher Paul Gardner) Quotes

The secret to success: find something you love to do so much, you can’t wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again.

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• It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Me
  • Change
  • Grief

• I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport that's blessed me with a home, with an education, with some money. I can't hate this sport. This sport took me out of Louisiana. This sport gave me a chance when so many people don't get a chance. And I love this sport.'

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Time
  • Love
  • Education

• Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Real
  • Lies
  • Hollywood

• Cancer stops you in your tracks. It really makes you think about what's important. In a second, life can change. Don't ever forget to say thank you for love and family. What good is your success without them?

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Life
  • Important
  • Think

• I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Up
  • Law
  • Rules

• I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Think
  • Fear
  • Over

• It is better to live rich than to die rich.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Live
  • Die
  • Better

• 'Any road', said Carlyle, 'even this road to Entepfuhl, will take you to the end of the world'. But the Entepfuhl road, if taken in its entirety, and to the end, goes back to Entepfuhl; so Entepfuhl, where we already were, is that very end of the world we were seeking.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • World
  • Taken
  • Road

• Ideology is a system of beliefs, held in common by the members of a collectivity.

  

  Talcott Parsons

• : No comment, since this is still hovering (see Larry's reply).Flutter, flutter.

  

  Larry Wall

• Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it.

  

  Al Stewart

• I know it's cheesy, but if you listen to the universe, it gives you pointers. I strongly believe if you keep your ears open and eyes open, your path will become clear. You just have to make sure you don't ignore it.

  

  Matthew James Thomas
  • Believe
  • Eyes
  • Universe

• Canadians are the best, they're the best.

  

  Brody Jenner

• Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

  

  Nelson Mandela

• For a Bostonian... we live in the shadow of New York, and to be acknowledged by New Yorkers is really the greatest feeling.

  

  Donnie Wahlberg
  • Live
  • Feeling
  • Shadow

• I consider myself more of a producer and a musician than a DJ.

  

  Kygo

• I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody's come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.

  

  Brian McKnight
  • Up
  • Moments

• Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon.

  

  Kevin Mitnick
  • Important

• I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing... and the audience is there waiting.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Think

• Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.

  

  Fats Domino
  • Home
  • Thoughts
  • Secret

• There is nothing so enervating and exhausting as this hopeless waiting. I dare say this is only a transition period. I will and shall have a victory some day. If the powers that be have shown me so little favor as to place me in this world and make me what I am, the result must be accordingly.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Waiting
  • Victory
  • Result

• What is clear is that Malcolm X incorporated within the framework of black nationalism a pan-Africanist and internationalist perspective. In doing so, he began to reassess radically earlier positions sexism and patriarchy. He began to break with notions of sexism that he had long held as a member of the Nation of Islam, and began to advance and push forward women leadership in the OAAU.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Long
  • Women
  • Black

• Sometimes it's interesting to see something that you're not used to seeing, which is the main ingredient of life, and it's removed from the usual entertainment. I think it's important to give the opportunity to people to witness the life of somebody who was not public.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • People
  • Important
  • Giving

• The secret to success: find something you love to do so much, you can’t wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again.

  

  Chris Gardner
  • Waiting
  • Secret