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Chris Gardner Quotes

Many have forged a path to greatness lit only by a vision in their minds.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: February 9, 1954

Topics

Vision Path Greatness Minds Lit

We're chronically sleep-deprived as a culture. We're constantly on.

Culture Constantly Chronically

One of the standard story-generating engines for science fiction is to take something we normally think of as metaphoric and treat it as if it were literal.

Robert J. Sawyer

Science Treat Think Science Fiction

My mother liked to buy houses, fix them up, and turn them over. We'd live somewhere for a few months and then move to another house, sometimes just two blocks away.

Mother Live House Sometimes Fix Up

I love interviews, meeting fans, teaching workshops, giving speeches... all of it.

MaryJanice Davidson

Love Giving Meeting Fans Interviews

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

Joseph Kosinski

You Want See Only Would Movie

Getting a beginner publishing deal really helped me gain the skills. I just kept writing and writing. You just take everything out of life and turn it into an idea or a melody or a song and find the best writers you can to write with that fit you and know what you want to do.

Life Best Me Writing Song You

I have been snowboarding since I was seven years old.

Snowboarding Old Years Been Seven

I started out at Procter & Gamble marketing panty liners, so basically selling women insecurity. I thought there must be more to life than this. Then I was on set for a Dr. Scholl's commercial, and I asked one of the execs, 'How do you get a job behind the camera?' and he said, 'Film school.' So I quit and applied to NYU.

Life Women Job School Insecurity

I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.

Football I Am Know First Used How

I was taught not to confront and interrupt people, but that's what I do every day on 'The View.'

Sherri Shepherd

Day People View Every Day Interrupt

I don't mind talking about my two daughters, but I don't feel comfortable denying them their privacy.

Mind Feel Talking Privacy Two About

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Achieve Know Striving Never Our

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