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I had never gone to college. I was not from a politically connected family. I had no money of my own. Who is going to do business with you?
Chris Gardner
Business
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Family
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Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.
Elon Musk
Case
Code
Difficult
DNA
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Probably the hardest question I get asked is, 'How do I choose between passion and practicality?' I can't answer that. I had to do both. I was passionate about pursuing a career in financial services. But I was also passionate about feeding my child.
Chris Gardner
Between
Both
Career
Child
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With DNA, you have to be able to tell which genes are turned on or off. Current DNA sequencing cannot do that. The next generation of DNA sequencing needs to be able to do this. If somebody invents this, then we can start to very precisely identify cures for diseases.
Elon Musk
Able
Cannot
Cures
Current
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Baby steps count, too, as long as you're moving forward.
Chris Gardner
Baby
Count
Forward
Long
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I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.
Elon Musk
Africa
Because
Born
Brought
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When you're doing something you're truly passionate about, there is no plan B.
Chris Gardner
About
Doing
Passionate
Plan
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Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
Elon Musk
Collective
Enlightenment
Greater
Makes
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Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.
Elon Musk
Big
Billion
Design
Efficiency
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I hold one thing dearer than all else: my commitment to my son.
Chris Gardner
Commitment
Dearer
Else
Hold
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I didn't grow up in a household where dinner conversation was, 'How did the market do today?'
Chris Gardner
Conversation
Did
Dinner
Grow
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Elon Musk
Die
Impact
Just
Like
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I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
Elon Musk
Good
Good Heart
Heart
I Think
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No matter what you accomplish, when you're doing something you're truly passionate about... the opportunities are always going to be bigger.
Chris Gardner
About
Accomplish
Always
Bigger
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My first ambition in life, I made up my mind I was going to become Miles Davis. I studied music, music theory. I played trumpet for nine years. One day, my mother explained, 'You can't be Miles Davis. There's one, and he's got that job.'
Chris Gardner
Ambition
Become
Davis
Day
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Many have forged a path to greatness lit only by a vision in their minds.
Chris Gardner
Forged
Greatness
Lit
Many
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What can we be in life? Few figures in history have answered this question with as much clarity and moral authority as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Chris Gardner
Answered
Authority
Clarity
Dr
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Fortunately, our digital age has created some wonderful tools for finding employers and showing your strengths. But when it comes to discovering or keeping a job, nothing beats good old-fashioned face time and up-to-date skills.
Chris Gardner
Age
Beats
Created
Digital
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Remember: If you don't schmooze, you lose. Used wisely, a bit of chitchat helps create a personal connection with your boss and colleagues.
Chris Gardner
Bit
Boss
Colleagues
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If you're lucky enough to have a permanent position, don't feel entitled. Companies value longtime employees' institutional memory, but to be irreplaceable, you must stay invested. Take the initiative and assume new responsibilities.
Chris Gardner
Assume
Companies
Employees
Enough
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Most of us have heard the saying, 'Cleanliness is next to godliness.' That's a sentiment I value, but another virtue has inspired me to revise that saying. As far as I'm concerned, what's next to godliness is resourcefulness.
Chris Gardner
Another
As Far As
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Your skills may not be anything out of the ordinary, but you can do miraculous things with what you've got. Maybe it's your parenting skills, or your compassion. It may be your curiosity, your imagination or unique style of fashion. Even if it seems to be no big deal, the lesson here is we all have unique abilities and talents.
Chris Gardner
Ability
Anything
Big
Big Deal
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If you're having a hard time recognizing your gifts, look to someone else you know who's been resourceful. You may be surprised by how your own strengths rise to the surface by watching someone else.
Chris Gardner
Been
Else
Gifts
Hard
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When someone says, 'You can't,' what it really means is that they can't - so why should you get to?
Chris Gardner
Get
Means
Really
Says
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As long as you have a plan for how you'll live, don't let jealous people turn their insecurities into yours.
Chris Gardner
How
Insecurities
Jealous
Live
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We can all look to our friends, family, and those we admire for inspiration.
Chris Gardner
Admire
Family
Friends
Inspiration
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Don't wait for the perfect time to start making changes to your life; the time is now.
Chris Gardner
Changes
Life
Making
Now
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Nine times out of 10, extenuating circumstances aside, I believe that people are where they are by some kind of choice on their part. You need to acknowledge that, 'Hey, I'm here because I steered my horse in this direction.'
Chris Gardner
Acknowledge
Aside
Because
Believe
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I don't feel like we have to be dirty or anything crazy, but as far as competing, there's no limits.
Rajon Rondo
Anything
As Far As
Competing
Crazy
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When you're off the court, that's when it's time to talk or whatever you want to do. But once it goes up, it's time to compete.
Rajon Rondo
Compete
Court
Goes
Off
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Ask any player. You're only as good as your coach allows you to be.
Rajon Rondo
Any
Ask
Coach
Good
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First of all, I'm misunderstood in general. I don't mind because I'm very quiet, and I stay to myself. People are going to say what they want to say.
Rajon Rondo
Because
First
First Of All
General
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You can't let emotions get involved with what the common goal is: to win. At the end of the day, that's what it's all about.
Rajon Rondo
About
Common
Common Goal
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What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind.
Ratan Tata
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Behind
Companies
Continue
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Ratan Tata
Public
Scrutiny
Stand
Stands
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I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.
Ratan Tata
Ashamed
Been
Bring
Constantly
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Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one - that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be.
Ratan Tata
Always
Apart
Behind
Consider
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I have always been very confident and very upbeat about the future potential of India. I think it is a great country with great potential.
Ratan Tata
About
Always
Been
Confident
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I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.
Eldridge Cleaver
Against
Am
American
American Dream
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The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.b
Eldridge Cleaver
Books
Could
Court
Ghetto
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I would say that one of the things I wish I could do differently would be to be more outgoing.
Ratan Tata
Could
Differently
I Wish
More
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We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
George Eliot
Affection
Altogether
Attachment
Faults
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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
Eldridge Cleaver
Beings
Hating
Human
Human Beings
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George Eliot
Accepting
Belief
Consists
Denying
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I may have hurt some people along the way, but I would like to be seen as somebody who has done his best to do the right thing for any situation and not compromised.
Ratan Tata
Along
Any
Best
Compromised
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I think there are many honest businessmen.
Ratan Tata
Businessmen
Honest
I Think
Many
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You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
Eldridge Cleaver
Being
How
Human
Inhuman
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Ratan Tata
Challenges
Given
Need
Organization
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
George Eliot
Another
Blessed
Human
Human Soul
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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
Eldridge Cleaver
Become
Denied
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