Chris Gardner (Christopher Paul Gardner) Quotes

Walk that walk and go forward all the time. Don't just talk that talk, walk it and go forward. Also, the walk didn't have to be long strides; baby steps counted too. Go forward.

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• The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.

  

  Ferdinand Christian Baur
  • Time
  • Consciousness
  • Product

• During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Book
  • Words
  • City

• Every time you get something, give something away.

  

  Wendie Malick
  • Time
  • You
  • Give

• I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Guy

• You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Games
  • Hunger
  • Idiot

• I was a dancer from about the age of four, so I was always performing and forcing my parents to watch my brother and I do 'Jesus Christ Super Star' in the living room. My first step was community theater, and then I started to do films.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Age
  • Parents
  • Community

• I said, 'I'm going to the United States to study with Stella Adler and do movies because nobody here has done it and my passion is films.' But I came here and I didn't speak English, I didn't have a green card, I didn't know I had to have an agent, I couldn't drive, I was dyslexic.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Done
  • Passion
  • Study

• Everyone has class, one class or another.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Everyone
  • Class
  • Another

• Ideas are fatal to caste.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Ideas
  • Fatal
  • Caste

• Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Good
  • Sweet
  • Grow

• And the worst part about making a soldier of a man is not that a soldier kills brown men or white men, but that the soldier loses his own soul.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Men
  • Soul
  • Soldier

• One of my favorites is Angela Merkel because I think she's been an extraordinary, strong leader during difficult times in Europe, which has obvious implications for the rest of the world and, most particularly, our country... her bravery in the face of the refugee crisis is something that I am impressed by.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • World
  • Country
  • She

• They are so busy knocking that they do not notice that the door is open!

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Door

• As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming.

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • Real
  • True
  • Relationship

• Almost every day, you see an article in the papers about someone violating a campaign finance law.

  

  Luther Strange
  • Law

• I think the thing I've always tried to do is - and I didn't plan it, it just started to come out that way - is try to make challenging music that flirts with accessibility.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Music

• I wish I was having as much fun as the press reports said I had.

  

  Sheryl Crow
  • Fun
  • Wish

• I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.

  

  Brooks Robinson
  • Guy
  • Passion
  • Baseball

• We talk about Hollywood being pro-labor, yet about 70% of our industry has been farmed out to Canada, meaning we are losing jobs like crazy. Where's organized labor asking how we can allow such a thing to happen?

  

  Danny Aiello
  • Crazy

• To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.

  

  Peter Stormare
  • Life
  • Important

• Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • People

• If you're truly in a band and you guys have been together for a long time, there's a family bond that you have. In fact, I've talked about this with therapists, especially if you're talking about a relationship, because when you're with somebody, you're going to your family, and she's alone.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• Right before I decided to come out, I went on a spiritual retreat called 'Changing the Inner Dialogue of Your Subconscious Mind.' I'd never been to anything like it before, and all my friends were taking bets on how long I'd last with no TV, no radio, no phone. But for me that was the beginning of paying attention to all the little things.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Friends

• Walk that walk and go forward all the time. Don't just talk that talk, walk it and go forward. Also, the walk didn't have to be long strides; baby steps counted too. Go forward.

  

  Chris Gardner
  • Long
  • Baby
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