Chris Gardner (Christopher Paul Gardner) Quotes
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One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.
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Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.
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A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
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Personally, the worst thing a boy can do to a girl is to ignore her while she's loving him with all her heart.
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Now my tapestry's unraveling.
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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.
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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.
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When I’m photographing I see life.
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For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus.
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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.
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It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.
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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.
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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.
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It's been a long and challenging road to get us to this point.
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Zero is powerful because it is infinity's twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and yang.
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Haste is never more dangerous than when you feel that victory is in your grasp.
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I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music.
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It is instructive to see how organizations pursue their goal of reducing errors and uncertainty. They impose standards, employ checklists, demand that knowledge workers list assumptions for their conclusions and document all sources. These actions either directly interfere with forming insights or create an environment where insights and discoveries are treated with suspicion because they might lead to errors. They signal to knowledge workers that their job is not to make mistakes. Even if they don't make discoveries, no one can blame them as long as they don't make mistakes.
