Chris Gardner (Christopher Paul Gardner) Quotes

Still a dreamer, yet more of a realist than ever before, I knew this was my time to sail. On the horizon I saw the shining future, as before. The difference now was that I felt the wind at my back. I was ready.

Chris Gardner

• Differences
• Shining
• Dreamer
• Realist
• Horizon
• Sail

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• Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Bad
  • Reviews
  • Turkey

• I hope there are going to be plenty of more roles to come.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Hope
  • More
  • Going

• In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Death
  • Situation
  • Danger

• I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • World
  • Cooking

• I love how, when you're a teenager, you're really opinionated, you're really right, you can't be wrong, and you don't know any better.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • Know
  • Better
  • Right

• There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Up
  • Child
  • Young

• What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?

  

  Dan Deacon
  • People
  • Music
  • Simple

• It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Up
  • Animal
  • Bird

• I've punched a fan in the face because he was obnoxious. I've also pinched a child and made him cry, but I was 10 then!

  

  Kajol
  • Child
  • Face
  • Cry

• If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• Only bad writers think they're good.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Think

• There were many times when I could have gone down the path of being a child star, which I know can be bad; I think, especially in L.A., it's easy to get caught up in that life.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • Life
  • Up
  • Bad

• It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

  

  Douglas Hurd
  • War

• In Australia in the '70s, there was a real embrace of different genres. And then George Miller did 'Mad Max' by the end of the '70s, the beginning of the '80s. And it was really thriving.

  

  John Hillcoat
  • Different
  • Real
  • Beginning

• American League teams don't bunt very often. National League teams bunt a lot.

  

  George Brett
  • American

• Many-headed multitude.

  

  Philip Sidney

• The violence of beast on beast is read As natural law, but upright man Seeks his divinity by inflicting pain.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Law
  • Pain
  • Violence

• The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Life
  • Beauty
  • Explore

• When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life
  • Mountain
  • Forest

• When salaries skyrocket, budgets skyrocket, and then rigor mortis sets in: moviemakers turn out formulaic junk in an effort to hedge their bets.

  

  Jeff Giles
  • Effort

• You are never too old to reinvent yourself.

  

  Steve Harvey
  • Yourself
  • Old
  • Reinvent

• The actors are in control, getting outrageous amounts of money. The reason they're getting this kind of money is because the studios don't know what else to do. They don't have a clue about what to do except to pay an actor a lot of money.

  

  Peter Bogdanovich
  • Money
  • Control

• Still a dreamer, yet more of a realist than ever before, I knew this was my time to sail. On the horizon I saw the shining future, as before. The difference now was that I felt the wind at my back. I was ready.

  

  Chris Gardner
  • Differences
  • Shining
  • Dreamer