Chris Gardner Quotes

Veterans who are homeless may not have a home, but that doesn't mean they don't have diverse skills that could be put to use to meet the needs of an expanding job market.

Chris Gardner

Recitation: by Male by Female

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HomeJobHomelessSkillsMeetMean

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

Joe Paterno

YouProfessionalTrueOthersLevel

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

John Dryden

FearGreatMaskBoldnessHowever

I'm very Italian, so I love cooking for friends. Whether it's Valentine's Day and my boyfriend and girlfriends' boyfriends are away, or someone's in town, or someone had a baby, I cook.

Sofia Milos

LoveValentine's DayDayCooking

The core is the most important muscle group in your body. If your core is not strong, the rest of your body is weakened, too.

Trudie Styler

RestStrongBodyGroupYour Body

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.

Tom Stoppard

PeopleThinkKindWayRealTension

It's great to play the hero. You get all the good stuff. You're in it all the way through.

Jason Statham

GoodGreatHeroYouPlayWay

The cheapest gadget - and you don't even have to spend a dime - is chopsticks from a Chinese restaurant. I use them for everything: to toss salads, to turn a piece of meat in the pan, to flip croquettes in the Fryolator, to whisk eggs for omelets, to stir eggs into fried rice when I make that for my daughters.

Jose Andres

RestaurantYouMeatEverythingTurn

Democrats are just as wrong to insist the law is perfect, that the law doesn't have things that need to be fixed, and to pretend that the law did wave a magic wand and make everything in the health care system fixed.

Conner Eldridge

HealthLawCareWaveMagicPerfect

When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.

Clint Eastwood

YouYoungConservativeRecklessGet

The 1970s crystallized the service mantra as we now know it.

Bruce Nordstrom

ServiceKnowNowMantra1970s

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

Arnold Bennett

RealityHellHeavenSecretFunction

I think both running and science reflect certain character traits. I have endurance, patience, and ambition. I'm willing to work hard toward a goal, to push myself and overcome limits. Running and science both let me express these traits.

Wolfgang Ketterle

WorkPatienceCharacterScienceMe

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