Chris Gardner Quotes

Passion is the thing that won't let you sleep at night because you want to get up in the morning and go do your thing.

Chris Gardner

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How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike.

Jim McKay

YourselfPeopleYouYoungDefine

When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative-thinking skills.

John Lasseter

SuccessLookSkillsBecause

It's wonderful to play a villain who gets a laugh or to stop a comedy dead in its tracks with a touching moment. It's kind of like a symphony that has very different movements.

John Lithgow

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Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize.

John Stuart Blackie

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Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.

Roger Clemens

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My parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouraging... They're like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in their own rights.

Riz Ahmed

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As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

Mike Tyson

StrengthLongWantEndureAnything

I like playing heavy metal music and pretending I'm a vampire in front of the mirror.

Luke Mably

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We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to make decisions to give us the evidence of the facts that are behind the decisions that we make. We should be skeptical.

Dixie Lee Ray

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When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there.

Chester Bennington

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Eighty percent of the cases used in the typical MBA program are about successful companies. Students graduate with this notion that 'If I do everything that the people in those cases did, then my organization will grow and be successful, too.'

Clayton M. Christensen

PeopleOrganizationGrowWillUsed

If we give people the ability to buy a lot more because they can store a lot more, for a company that creates TV shows and movies, that's fantastic.

Bob Iger

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