Chris Gardner (Christopher Paul Gardner) Quotes

The future was uncertain, absolutely, and there were many hurdles, twists, and turns to come, but as long as I kept moving forward, one foot in front of the other, the voices of fear and shame, the messages from those who wanted me to believe that I wasn't good enough, would be stilled.

Chris Gardner

• Believe
• Long
• Moving
• Enough
• Feet
• Shame
• Messages
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• I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Small

• And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Death
  • Beautiful
  • Happen

• A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Talking
  • Head
  • Intellectual

• The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Interest

• I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • Nature
  • See
  • Back

• I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Remember
  • Try
  • Just

• I have a hyper personality.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Personality
  • Hyper

• I think people try so hard to learn everything that they miss all the wonderful essentials. There is so much mystery in life that you should leave a mystery.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Life
  • Mystery

• There's no alternative to Catalan independence.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Independence
  • Alternative

• The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Business
  • Me
  • Film

• Well, I think it can be quite helpful to be working on a character who actually existed, historically. Of course, you might have material to study and help you create the character.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Character
  • Help
  • Think

• Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Life
  • Time
  • Help

• In other words, I'd say the whole story of Bob Dylan is one man's search for God. The turns and the steps he takes to find God are his business. I think he went to a study group at the Vineyard, and it created a lot of excitement.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • God
  • Business
  • Man

• Play me no plays.

  

  Samuel Foote

• Beauty will snatch us by the heart and love us until we are raw with understanding.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Heart
  • Understanding

• My Aunt Agatha, the curse of the Home Counties and a menace to one and all.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Home
  • Aunt

• Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Exercise

• Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Work

• Now it is time to build on that, to make it even better, and to bring this amazing product closer to our fans, while making it appealing to new and younger audiences as well.

  

  Jordi Bertomeu
  • Young
  • Product
  • Audiences

• I want my kids to have a good work ethic. I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Good
  • Work
  • Believe

• You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Why
  • Me

• The future was uncertain, absolutely, and there were many hurdles, twists, and turns to come, but as long as I kept moving forward, one foot in front of the other, the voices of fear and shame, the messages from those who wanted me to believe that I wasn't good enough, would be stilled.

  

  Chris Gardner
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Moving