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
• Hurdle

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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

• Go to the doctor, get a checkup, and get Pap smears regularly. Cervical cancer is very preventable, and if you catch it early, there are tons of ways to treat it as well.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Cancer
  • Treat
  • Doctor

• Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Desire
  • Talk

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

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Death
  • Beautiful
  • Happen

• Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.

  

  Irving Azoff
  • Life
  • Me
  • Company

• 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

• Always take earplugs and an eye mask. It doesn't matter where you are. Even if you're in the best hotel, if there's road works outside, then you're screwed. So I take earplugs and an eye mask with me wherever I go.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Best
  • Road
  • Eye

• 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

• Here in L.A., there are a lot of dead spots, and you have to drive to find energy, but all of India is so energetic.

  

  Chris Kattan
  • Energy

• Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.

  

  Keira Knightley
  • People
  • Great
  • Literature

• The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.

  

  Tan Le
  • Wish
  • Brain
  • I Wish

• In a political situation where tyranny reigns and rebellion is not tolerated, few men and women will have the luxury of going beyond the stance of the rebel.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Men
  • Women
  • Political

• I'm a drugstore beauty girl, I love going to the drugstore and buying makeup.

  

  Melanie Fiona Hallim
  • Girl
  • Makeup

• 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