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Chris Gardner Quotes

You can blame outside factors or make excuses about why things didn't work out, but that doesn't change anything.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Change Blame Excuses You Why

I've always been a late bloomer, so I never feel like, 'Oh, I'm gettin' older; I guess everything is gonna stop.' I'm the opposite: 'Oh, I'm just getting started.'

Feel Late Getting Started Stop Never

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Good Happiness Bank Cook Good Cook

Musicals and horror movies are my two favorite genres because they're about extremes.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

Movies Horror Two Horror Movies

Originally I wanted somewhere to set my short stories about the sort of people I recognise having grown up with. Carnbeg was staring me in the face all the time, only I had somehow failed to see that. Not seeing the wood for the trees, I suppose.

Time People Me Face Trees Short

I didn't even know what a tour manager was, but I was the tour manager, booking agent, all that stuff for almost two years without knowing it. I wasn't overwhelmed, because I enjoyed doing it.

Doing Know Manager Knowing Without

I grew up watching 'Magnum, P.I.' and shows like that, where you could develop a character over eight seasons, with stories along the way.

Character Seasons You Way Watching

Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice.

God Community Remember Ice Farming

I feel pretty good when I get out of bed in the morning. I don't feel all beat up, which is nice.

Good Morning Feel Bed Nice Out

I'm paving the road for other women and men who know they're destined for greatness, but they don't believe it yet.

Women Men Greatness Road Believe

I'm not always a heartbroken guy. I like to laugh, act silly, dance. There are so many more colors to me. I really can be fun.

Anthony Hamilton

Dance Fun Me Colors Laugh Silly

You have to be looking for a job to get unemployment benefits. If you stop looking for work, you are no longer eligible to receive benefits.

Austan Goolsbee

Work Job Looking You Stop Get

I'll miss everything about Palermo. The people always made me feel at home; it will be impossible to forget my experiences there. Palermo made me become a man.

Home Man People Me Impossible Feel

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