Chris Gardner (Christopher Paul Gardner) Quotes

You have to be bold because there will be folks who will say, "You can't" or "You shouldn't" or "Why?" There is a certain boldness to saying, "Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting."

Chris Gardner

• Courage
• Painting
• Certain
• Lawyer
• Passionate
• Boldness

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• I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Like
  • Rock
  • More

• If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Nature
  • Words
  • Opinion

• I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Time
  • Work
  • Week

• Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • May
  • Nature

• I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Women
  • Reason
  • Songs

• Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Work
  • Money
  • Idea

• There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Eyes

• My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Business
  • Like
  • Deal

• All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Earth
  • Military
  • Blue

• Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • Important
  • America
  • Success

• I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Angry
  • Anger
  • Listen

• What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Pain
  • Healing

• I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Better

• After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Happy
  • I Can
  • Be Happy

• You realize mortality is everywhere.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • You
  • Realize
  • Mortality

• I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Kids
  • Dad
  • New

• One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Book
  • Know
  • Characters

• Everyone at the Hayholt had seemed obsessed with the empty ritual of power, something Miriamele had lived with for so long that it held no interest for her. It was like watching a confusing game played by bad-tempered children.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Long
  • Children
  • Power

• The stiffer the penalty, the greater the message is sent.

  

  Lou Brock

• A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

  

  John Lothrop Motley
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Christian

• My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Time
  • Period
  • Poverty

• I'd been told, or warned, that when you paint one room, not only will it look nice, but it will also make the room next to it look as if raccoons have been living in it for the past decade.

  

  Christopher Buckley
  • Past
  • Nice

• You have to be bold because there will be folks who will say, "You can't" or "You shouldn't" or "Why?" There is a certain boldness to saying, "Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting."

  

  Chris Gardner
  • Courage
  • Painting
  • Certain