Chris Gardner Quotes

Your skills may not be anything out of the ordinary, but you can do miraculous things with what you've got. Maybe it's your parenting skills, or your compassion. It may be your curiosity, your imagination or unique style of fashion. Even if it seems to be no big deal, the lesson here is we all have unique abilities and talents.

Chris Gardner

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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives: the fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.

John Burroughs

TreeMeNothingTopBottomCells

Every record, you've got more experiences to draw on as a writer and a musician.

Jerry Cantrell

YouMoreExperiencesGotWriter

I firmly believe that Scotland's place is in the U.K., and I do not believe in powers for power's sake.

Johann Lamont

PowerBelievePlaceScotlandPowers

I say to people today, 'You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As individuals, we may not live to see the end.'

John Lewis

LiveTodayPeopleBelieveEndYou

It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.

Robert South

PeopleCareDoneAnythingWhere

I'm very much about stories that are fast but character development that moves slow.

Ann Nocenti

CharacterSlowFastDevelopmentMuch

What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly permanent.

Jeffrey Kluger

InjuriesEverythingPermanentOut

For good or for bad, I'm a risk taker. I like high-stakes, high-reward type situations.

Michael Avenatti

GoodBadRiskLikeTypeSituations

I just feel like you have to go through this crazy transition if you're going to continue on with your career from a child star to an adult star.

Sofia Richie

ChildCrazyFeelYouCareerGo

The mere fact that I'm former head of state and former under-secretary in the U.N. system, it means that I can get in touch with anybody in the world, in theory.

Martti Ahtisaari

WorldI CanTouchHeadSystemGet

Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.

Chinua Achebe

PeopleSocietyCreateDifferentEach

Now, to describe the process of the Wrapped Reichstag, which went from 1971 to '95, there is an entire book about that, because each one of our projects has its own book. The book is not an art book, meaning it's not written by an art historian.

Christo

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