Chris Gardner (Christopher Paul Gardner) Quotes

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• I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Inspiring

• If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Power
  • Doubt
  • Values

• When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Up
  • You
  • Buying

• Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Together
  • Colors
  • Puzzle

• You can tell a lot about a person from his underwear.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • You
  • Person
  • Underwear

• I never go wild with nails.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Never
  • WIld
  • Nails

• I am not as simple as I look.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Simple
  • Look

• I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Writing
  • New York
  • Short

• The heart is the best reflective thinker.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Heart
  • Best
  • Thinker

• The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Book
  • English
  • Green

• Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Failure
  • Means
  • Away

• The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike... you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it's true.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Good
  • Important
  • She

• An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.

  

  Jack Vance

• Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.

  

  Annie Besant
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Karma

• He don't look the sort of fellow I like; but he's got money and he comes here, and he's good looking, - and therefore he'll be a success.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Good
  • Money
  • Success

• I ain't no angel, I still got a few more dances with the devil.I'm cleaning up my act little by little.I'm getting there. I can finally stand the man in the mirror I see.I ain't as good as I'm gonna get, but I'm better than I used to be.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • Up
  • Good
  • Mirror

• My favorite Asimov works were the 'Foundation' books because the concept, at the time, was crazy, but psycho-history has now turned out to be an actual real thing. You can predict the actions of large groups of people once you understand, for lack of a better way to put it, their way of existing and their prejudices.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.

  

  Jane Bryant Quinn
  • Real

• There weren't many options growing up, so I would wear whatever possible. I once saw a little boy wearing Jordan sneakers in a movie... and that made me dream.

  

  Neymar
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Dream

• I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

  

  Andrew Wyeth
  • Dream
  • Painting

• I'm outdoors a lot, so I get dark. Guess who gets stopped? I've been pulled over, and they ask, 'Where are you from?' I say, 'Montana.' They say, 'Are you sure? And I say, 'I'm reasonably sure I'm from Montana, but you know, this is a dream life.' You start on this shtick with them and it's fun.

  

  Jim Harrison
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Dream

• Never laugh at anyone's dream. People who don't have dreams don't have much.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Dream
  • Laughing

• Claim ownership of your dreams

  

  Chris Gardner
  • Dream
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  • Ownership