Chris Gardner (Christopher Paul Gardner) Quotes
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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
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How are you coming into the effect? How are you getting out?
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Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.
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I'm not always what I think I am, but I am what I think.
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Right now, the biggest shared value that I can think of is that you should treat others the way you want to be treated, and just have some good sense about what matters to you.
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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We strive towards a better world, but one can never do it without compromise. We can all change the world for the better, starting in your own little surroundings, together with people who believe in it, too. This way you can make it work and show others that it actually can work. That doesn't mean that everybody has to do it like you "or else..." If there is no compromise possible, then it turns into extremism, and I don't think that extremism ever added something positive to the world.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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Books wind into the heart.
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Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.
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The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation.
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Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.
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The adrenaline gets pumping and you just got to forget about [injuries] and play.
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In the name of sense, man, if God made fish to be eaten, what difference does it make if I enjoy the killing of them before I eat them? You would have none but a fisherman by trade do it, and then you would have him utter a sigh, a prayer, and a pious ejaculation at each cod or haddock that he killed.
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Elegance is like manners. You can’t be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day of the week. If you are not, then it’s another matter.
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It's ok to FAIL it's not ok to Quit
