Chris Gardner (Christopher Paul Gardner) Quotes

If you have a dream, you've got to protect it.

Chris Gardner

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• The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Will
  • Take
  • Ideology

• Surround yourself with great people. People are what make businesses prosper.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • People
  • Great
  • Surround Yourself

• Care and pity are two different things.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Different
  • Care
  • Two

• There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Money
  • Success
  • Feeling

• I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Think
  • Like
  • Never

• I love design.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Love
  • Design
  • I Love

• We have a 25-year head start for the stories of 'Scorpion.' By the time we get to Season Two and Three, the stuff that happened because of Season One will actually fuel Season Three. So it'll become a self-sustainable show.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Time
  • Start
  • Season

• It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like Homer Simpson than Superman. So from this perspective it is rather depressing. But at the same time there is also a silver lining. There are free lunches!

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Time
  • True
  • Free

• Mes amis, l’amour est cent fois meilleur que la haine. L’espoir est meilleur que la peur. L’optimisme est meilleur que le désespoir. Alors aimons, gardons espoir et restons optimistes. Et nous changerons le monde.

  

  Jack Layton

• If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Help

• Most of our physical education teachers were just teachers, and they had to do the extra stuff on their own. I remember very vividly that they would hold a cane pole between two of the students down low, and we would all jump over it. And they would raise it and raise it and raise it.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Remember
  • Education
  • Jump

• When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • People

• Should one of your employees have a physical or mental health problem, I would argue that it is as much something for the employer as the individual to contend with.

  

  Frans van Houten
  • Health

• Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

  

  Jeff Tweedy
  • Writing
  • Nature

• My Longhorns are registered and I am a member of the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association.

  

  Janine Turner
  • Texas

• I think I may be the most well-adjusted person you'd ever meet who thinks constantly about falling out of her life. And my life is pretty great! It's not like I don't know that.

  

  Alexandra Kleeman
  • Life
  • Great
  • May

• I admire Vegas's purity, its entirely wholesome artificiality.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Vegas

• It has to be understood, it has to be measured, and the investment needs to make sense, but debt on its face is not a bad thing.

  

  Jim Gray
  • Bad

• I'm not formal and I'm impatient. So I think my team would say that when she starts tapping her pen and the leg starts moving quickly, that it's time to move on. I'm not good at long, drawn-out kinds of sessions.

  

  Anne M. Mulcahy
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• No one warns young people to follow Adam's example. He waited till God saw his need. Then God made Adam sleep, prepared for his mate, and brought her to him. We need more of this 'being asleep' in the will of God.

  

  Jim Elliot
  • People
  • God
  • Sleep

• One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?'

  

  Antoine Predock

• The thing is, I don't take anything for granted anymore - my family, my music, you name it.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • Music
  • Family

• I think as a director you have to make it your own. It'd be a mistake to approach a project with the idea of 'I'm going to do this the way I think somebody else would,' because then you'd never be clear on your idea.

  

  Cheryl Hines
  • Mistake

• If you have a dream, you've got to protect it.

  

  Chris Gardner
  • Dream
  • Protect