Chris Gardner (Christopher Paul Gardner) Quotes

(The movie) is the story of my life, but it's not about me. It's about anybody who ever dreamed big and had someone tell them, 'No, you can't do it.' You can.

Chris Gardner

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• Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Time
  • Job
  • Salary

• You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I'm dancing now for 30 more years.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Fun
  • Risk
  • Skiing

• It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Speak

• You learn to be comfortable in your own skin, and your body changes throughout life, so you can't sweat the small stuff.

  

  Chanel Iman
  • Life
  • Small

• I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do.

  

  Andrew Bogut
  • Trying
  • Game
  • Basketball

• What is important about graphene is the new physics it has delivered.

  

  Andre Geim
  • Important

• Good schools, good jobs, good government. These are not unreasonable demands. But sadly, some of our people have already lost heart and have left Hawaii to look for these things elsewhere.

  

  Linda Lingle
  • People
  • Good
  • Heart

• Fellini was a little lofty for a teenage boy, but certainly he was a huge influence.

  

  John Waters
  • Boy

• The comic strip: upholder of Homeric culture. (p.19)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Culture

• Anybody that'll stand up to The Cline is all right.

  

  Patsy Cline
  • Up
  • Anybody
  • All Right

• How is MS-DOS like MSG? Both raise your blood pressure and give you a tightening sensation around your forehead.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Giving
  • Blood
  • Pressure

• I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • School
  • High
  • Sports

• Stop the traffic...let 'em through.

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • Stop
  • Traffic
  • Ems

• Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal attainment. Without goals, you simply drift and flow on the currents of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Mind
  • True

• Recognize and embrace your flaws so you can learn from them. Sometimes it takes a little polishing to truly shine.

  

  Kanye West
  • Shine

• Saudi had been a very restricted place. Even on the magazines there, if there was a little leg or cleavage showing, they used to blacken it with a black mark. Me and Ishmeet, so many times, had tried to remove the black portion with our spit, but of course, it would never come out.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Never
  • Mark
  • Restricted

• It's different when the person you love dies. There's an awful finality to death. But it is final. The end. And there's the funeral, family gatherings, grieving, all of those necessary rituals. And they help, believe me. When the object of your love just disappears, there's no way to deal with the grief and pain.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Family

• No, the best way to stop a vehicle is to shoot the driver. And that you can do with a number of weapons.

  

  Chris Kyle
  • Way
  • Stop
  • Numbers

• Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the world, and everything within it, arising from some primordial argument between the deity and nothing whatsoever. And then, by some inscrutable incandescent insight, Leibniz came to see that what is crucial in what he had written is the alternation between God and Nothingness. And for this, the numbers 0 and 1 suffice.

  

  David Berlinski
  • World
  • Simple
  • Argument

• (The movie) is the story of my life, but it's not about me. It's about anybody who ever dreamed big and had someone tell them, 'No, you can't do it.' You can.

  

  Chris Gardner
  • Stories
  • Bigs
  • Perseverance