Chris Gardner Quotes

I am very, very conscious of time. I always wear two watches. People ask me, 'Why do you do that?' Because I was late once,and it cost me a huge opportunity.

Chris Gardner

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I have long been fond of comparing Workday strategy to the process of sending a rocket to the moon.

Aneel Bhusri

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L.A. and America, in general, have this incredible hustle about them. There's this sense of momentum.

Alycia Debnam-Carey

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There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains.

Stephen Hawking

LawMoreHumanBrainsBeingEven

It's not to hurt anyone, but basketball can be rough.

Sue Wicks

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Lack of confidence - every time I start a new piece of work, it seems I have to spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

Sue Townsend

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Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?

Robert Benchley

FunnyYouWhyOutCoatWet

No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something.

Robert Browning

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I sadly never got to my prom. I was shooting 'The Outsiders.'

Rob Lowe

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I look back on my career and my time as commissioner with great fondness.

Mick Foley

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There's not democracy in the workplace. I mean, through most of our daily lives, the idea of democracy is fairly nonexistent. And I think things work better when the people who have to work with whatever it is we're working with have a say in how it's working.

Michael Moore

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The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin.

Jules Verne

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I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.

Anthony Trollope

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