Chris Gardner (Christopher Paul Gardner) Quotes

Wealth can also be that attitude of gratitude with which we remind ourselves everyday to count our blessings.

Chris Gardner

• Attitude
• Everyday
• Wealth
• Gratitude
• Blessing

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• Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Time
  • Government
  • Better

• Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.

  

  Kajol
  • Hand
  • Goals
  • Step

• Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Should
  • Entertainment
  • Union

• Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Heart
  • Think
  • Stop

• The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

  

  Ice T
  • Music
  • Acting
  • Yourself

• Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Time
  • Country
  • Child

• I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Experience
  • City
  • New York

• I would love to do more work in the States, but I like working at home in the U.K., so to work here and there would be the plan.

  

  Nathalie Emmanuel
  • Work
  • Home
  • Like

• Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Music
  • Space

• I am definitely a worrier.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Definitely
  • Worrier

• I always wonder if my kids will say they're mixed or black.

  

  Gary Owen
  • Kids
  • Black
  • Always

• Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.

  

  Maggie Siff
  • Way
  • Feels
  • Watch

• At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and solitude.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Age

• 'I sometimes think,' said the Eternal, 'that the stars never shine more brightly than when reflected in the muddy waters of a wayside ditch.'

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Shine

• Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • People
  • Hand
  • Moral

• I've always thought that Lewis Carroll himself had a certain comedy tinge to him. He was a guy who was a satirist. He really was a social commentator in many ways and was trying to satirize Victorian society.

  

  James Bobin
  • Trying
  • Guy
  • Society

• One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.

  

  Janet Suzman
  • Interesting
  • Small

• I always say, my leading lady is my lola.

  

  Coco Martin

• I found out I wanted to be a filmmaker almost by accident after graduating from college in 2005.

  

  Matthew Heineman
  • College

• Warm-bloodedness is one of the key factors that have enabled mammals to conquer the Earth, and to develop the most complex bodies in the animal kingdom. In this series, we will travel the world to discover just how varied and how astonishing mammals are.

  

  David Attenborough
  • World
  • Earth
  • Travel

• Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning worshipper at the shrine of the established social order and of the economic development into which I was born.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Race
  • Order
  • Should Have

• If you put your mind to it, anything is possible.

  

  Kimberly Guilfoyle
  • Mind

• Anyone who's gotten their passport in America will tell you, when you get it, it still says what country you were born in. So I remember getting my American passport. I was like, 'Woo-hoo! I'm going to travel.' And I opened it up. It said, 'Born in Iran.' I'm like, 'Oh, come on, man!'

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • Up
  • Country
  • Remember

• Wealth can also be that attitude of gratitude with which we remind ourselves everyday to count our blessings.

  

  Chris Gardner
  • Attitude
  • Everyday
  • Wealth