Chris Gardner (Christopher Paul Gardner) Quotes

It can be done, but you have to make it happen.

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• One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Me
  • Issues
  • Reform

• Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Taste
  • Personal
  • Niche

• A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Funny
  • Worth
  • Dime

• Personally, the worst thing a boy can do to a girl is to ignore her while she's loving him with all her heart.

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • Heart
  • She
  • Girl

• Now my tapestry's unraveling.

  

  Carole King
  • Art
  • Media
  • Entertainment

• It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by the uninspired journeyman.

  

  Karl Pearson
  • Experience
  • Hand
  • Rude

• No, sir, th' dimmycratic party ain't on speakin' terms with itsilf. Whin ye see two men with white neckties go into a sthreet car an' set in opposite corners while wan mutthers Thraiter an' th' other hisses Miscreent ye can bet they're two dimmycratic leaders thryin' to reunite th' gran' ol' party.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Men
  • Party
  • Car

• When I’m photographing I see life.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Life
  • I See
  • Photographing

• For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus.

  

  W. W. Rouse Ball
  • Great
  • Science
  • Alone

• We can score on anybody. But we have to focus on defense. They were just outworking us. Everybody has to step up, period, for us to be a better team.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Up
  • Team
  • Focus

• It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.

  

  Quentin Crisp

• Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom, and fruitage in prayer.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Beautiful

• When you understand the law of divine compensation, you realize that in the presence of spiritual consciousness, there is more than enough compensation for any diminishment in materiality.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Law
  • Spiritual
  • Understand

• No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

  

  George Eliot
  • Desire
  • Escape
  • Dooms

• Those who cultivate letters must be supplied with the books necessary for their purpose; and until this supply is secured I shall not rest.

  

  Aldus Manutius
  • Purpose
  • Books
  • Letters

• I was baptized Episcopalian when I was maybe two years old and we went to an Episcopalian church. When we moved to Georgia, we started going to a Lutheran church and I fell in love with the church there - Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Douglasville, Georgia. I really have a home there.

  

  Elana Meyers
  • Home
  • Church
  • Georgia

• I think people who share my dreams can enjoy reading my novels. And that's a wonderful thing. I said that myths are like a reservoir of stories, and if I can act as a similar kind of "reservoir," albeit a modest one, that would make me very happy.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Happy
  • Enjoy
  • Dreams

• It can be done, but you have to make it happen.

  

  Chris Gardner
  • Happens