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

• For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Imagination

• 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

• I just want to keep challenging myself. Keep moving the goalposts and raising my game.

  

  Martin Henderson
  • Game
  • Moving

• I never pass up the chance to shop at vintage stores.

  

  Fei Fei Sun
  • Up
  • Never
  • Chance

• I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Best
  • Football
  • Say

• Words rarely go to the right place, and if they do, it’s only for a very brief time.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Words
  • Brief
  • Right Place

• 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