Keys famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't bad per se... the key is in choosing the right dishes. You need to pick the nurturing ones (compassion), the healthy ones (love thy neighbor), not the bitter ones.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.
-- Abbe Pierre -
The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.
-- Aberjhani -
A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking.
-- Ace Frehley -
A recent report by UNEP and Interpol estimated that between 50 to 90 per cent of logging in key tropical countries of the Amazon basin, Central Africa and South East Asia is being carried out by organized crime. This threatens not only attempts to eradicate poverty and deforestation but also efforts to combat climate change.
-- Achim Steiner -
The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.
-- Adam Baldwin -
The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging. We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters.
-- Adam Rickitt -
I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.
-- Adam Savage -
Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter -
Exploiting yourself sexually is not a good look. I don't find it encouraging...I just stand there and sing. I'm not worried that I'm a 'plus size' and so much bigger than other artists. No matter what you look like the key is to be happy with yourself.
-- Adele -
I think no matter what you look like, the key is to first of all be happy with yourself. And then you know if you want to try to improve things that you don't like about yourself, then do it after your appreciate yourself.
-- Adele -
Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe. There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.
-- Agnes Denes -
You know Nana, I searched and searched, but could never find the key that unlocked the way. And now that I've stopped looking, I've finally found it. Maybe the door will open for me.
-- Ai Yazawa -
I've always believed it's important to make the invisible visible. And valuing that which has been taken for granted is something that I've always instinctually known is the key to the kind of society I want to live in and raise my children in.
-- Ai-jen Poo -
Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me back to zero.
-- Aimee Mann -
The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.
-- Al Capp -
The key.. will be a new public awareness of how serious is the threat to the global environment. Those who have a vested interest in the status quo will probably continue to be able to stifle any meaningful change until enough citizens.. are willing to speak out.
-- Al Gore -
I was very, very shocked about Cooperstown. I thought my chances were fairly good, but I tried to stay low key about it, not too high and not too low. That was the way I played, too.
-- Al Kaline -
Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You'll have plenty of time to be low-key when you're laid out on the slab.
-- Al Yankovic -
The proportion of ingredients is important, but the final result is also a matter of how you put them together. Equilibrium is key.
-- Alain Ducasse -
When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.
-- Alain Robert -
What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
-- Alan Alda -
Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
-- Alan Bennett -
Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of an everchanging economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank needs to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path. The decision makers then need to reach judgment about the probabilities, costs and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
-- Alan Greenspan -
A conservative party that reshapes its self-presentation according to the suggestions of the liberal media, of course, may very well get what such lack of courage deserves. Having been told by their opponents for years that the key to Republican victory was a softening of the message and more smiles, Republicans have now apparently taken a big dose of this medicine. One might counsel more caution in accepting medicine from one's enemies.
-- Alan Keyes -
You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.
-- Albert Ellis -
The key is that unless there is accountability, we will never get the right system. As long as there are no consequences if kids or adults don't perform, as long as the discussion is not about education and student outcomes, then we're playing a game as to who has the power.
-- Albert Shanker -
The key to happiness is not to get more, but to enjoy what we have and to fill the empty frame of our lives instead of enlarging it.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -
With such global events looming over us like mountains, nay, like entire mountain ranges, it may seem incongruous and inappropriate to recall that the primary key to our being or non-being resides in each individual human heart, in the heart's preference for specific good or evil. Yet this remains true even today, and it is, in fact, the most reliable key we have. The social theories that promised so much have demonstrated their bankruptcy, leaving us at a dead end.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects.
-- Alex Tabarrok -
The best advice that I can offer is that being proactive and a careful planner is key. Think about the major things that could shake up your financial life, and Ill bet there are some great ways to protect yourself.
-- Alexa Von Tobel -
There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre.
-- Alexander Cockburn -
One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in the round rather than looked through the same key-hole again and again.
-- Alexander Rodchenko -
A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.
-- Alicia Keys -
I really like to live my life in a low-key fashion.
-- Alicia Keys -
Many of us are tempted to find the key in doing, but the answer is actually found in being. It is vital that we are routinely humbled by the reminder that Christian life is grounded, not in what we can do, but what has been done for us and what we need done to us.
-- Alistair Begg -
Endurance is a key indicator of spiritual fitness.
-- Alistair Begg -
The key thing that went wrong was that a culture was allowed to develop where the relationship between what people did and what they got went way out of alignment, especially at the top end.
-- Alistair Darling -
Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of enlightenment.
-- Allan Bloom -
I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.
-- Allen Tate -
My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.
-- Alvin Adams -
Empowering women is key to building a future we want
-- Amartya Sen -
I have great friends around me that are positive and I think that's the key to life is making your own path. Set your own rules because there is no set rule, there is no set look, there is no set anything. You make your own rules in your life. You make your own decisions.
-- Amber Riley -
PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by pressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.
-- Amelia Barr -
The key question isn't 'What is Evil?' The key question is 'When does the Good become Evil?
-- Amish Tripathi -
Desire is the key to motivation. It is the key to develop a healthy personality and a positive attitude towards oneself and others.
-- Amit Abraham -
You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks.
-- Amit Ray -
Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for keys.
-- Andre Breton -
and I wonder if Beethoven held his breath the first time his fingers touched the keys the same way a soldier holds his breath the first time his finger clicks the trigger. We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.
-- Andrea Gibson -
Touch me ‘til my ribs become piano keys, ‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.
-- Andrea Gibson -
The camera can push the new medium to its limits - and beyond. It is there - in the "beyond" - that the imaginative photographer will compete with the imaginative painter. Painting must return to the natural world from time to time for renewal of the artistic vision. The key sector of renewal of vision today is the new vistas revealed by science. Here photography, which is not only art but science also, stands on the firmest ground.
-- Andreas Feininger -
The key relationships in the future will not be between people, but between machines and people.
-- Andrew Keen -
I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.
-- Andrew Lloyd Webber -
Today I felt like a part of something awesome, the human race. I know it can be ugly; it really is in so many ways. But today there was nothing ugly to see, just people trying to be better. And maybe that's the key. Not resolutions and forgotten promises, but instead a commitment to do this year a little better than the last. I'm feeling good about this one. I really am.
-- Andrew McMahon -
There's nothing that you like in this world that wasn't influenced by a bunch of key things; nothing came completely clean out of a vacuum.
-- Andrew Stanton -
I always liked major-key music quite a bit, and that might have something to do with so many of the musical experiences of my childhood being based around the piano. On piano, it is very easy to move between major and minor and to really see how it looks and to feel how it sounds.
-- Andrew W.K. -
Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what's right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.
-- Andrew Zimmern -
I believe persistence is a major key to success in any great endeavor. I want to remind folks to PERSIST in whatever they are tackling at the moment!
-- Andy Andrews -
Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work. I need the shock of touch, the resistance of place, materials and weather, the earth as my source. Nature is in a state of change and that change is the key to understanding. I want my art to be sensitive and alert to changes in material, season and weather. Each work grows, stays, decays. Process and decay are implicit. Transience in my work reflects what I find in nature.
-- Andy Goldsworthy -
People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well.
-- Andy Hertzfeld -
I think the people that are best at something, they don't think about it much. That's the whole key to being good at anything.
-- Andy Richter -
The key to the match might have been his serving. Maybe I should have concentrated harder on watching them go by me, I don't know.
-- Andy Roddick -
When you make giving a priority, something happens inside of you. Especially when it's financially challenging to do so. It's like you loosen your grip on a value system whose motto says, "Money is the key to life and happiness and safety."
-- Andy Stanley -
The key of the success of Studio 54 is that it’s a dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the dance floor.
-- Andy Warhol -
As a busy working mom I'm always pressed for time, so a quick and easy beauty routine is key!
-- Angela Kinsey -
Integration is the most important asset Europe has, and the key component to European integration is the euro.
-- Anibal Cavaco Silva -
The key to handling problems and conflict within an organization is to keep the channels of communication wide open.
-- Anita Roddick -
Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.
-- Ann Brashares -
The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner.
-- Ann Wigmore -
Getting out and staying out of debt is key. debt is the biggest barrier, a parasite to wealth.
-- Ann Wilson -
Use Time. Make it easy. Get your money to work for you. The key is to get in the market, as it is not about timing the market, but time in the market that matters.
-- Ann Wilson -
The challenge, whenever you create anything, is to persevere and push away the negative voices. And the more you accomplish, the louder they get. The key is to shut them off and trust in your heart where you're going.
-- Anne Bancroft -
Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
-- Anne Carson -
I learned how to be a learner. When you get in a job, the tendency is to say, 'I've got to know it. I've got to give direction to others. I'm in this job because I'm better and smarter.' I always took a different view, that the key was to identify the people who really knew and learn from them.
-- Anne M. Mulcahy -
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
-- Ansel Adams -
Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena.
-- Anson Dorrance -
I can't find my car keys in the morning. Trying to get out of my house is a nightmare. "Where's my wallet? Where are my keys? I have to go find a missing person."
-- Anthony LaPaglia -
The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves?
-- Anthony Marais -
I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.
-- Anton Chekhov -
The time was simply ripe for the disappearance of tonality. Naturally this was a fierce struggle; inhibitions of the most frightful kind had to be overcome, the panic fear, 'Is that possible, then?' So it came about that gradually a piece was written, firmly and consciously, that wasn't in a definite key any more.
-- Anton Webern -
I believe that fortitude is key. More than anything, be consistent. Go at it. Go at it. Go at it. When you succeed, don’t forget the responsibility of making somebody else succeed with you.
-- Antonia Novello -
I was looking for the key for years But the door was always open
-- Aravind Adiga -
Coming into Los Angeles, bringing in a couple of keys. Don't touch my bags, if you please Mr. Customs man.
-- Arlo Guthrie -
Saying yes, opening up, and loving: these are the keys that will unlock the prison door.
-- Arnaud Desjardins -
You cannot get tired if you're interested in what you do. That's the key thing.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
It doesn't matter what party you come from. The key thing is that you work on behalf of the people rather than on behalf of the party.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
The word infrastructure means nothing to the majority of people of America. We have to come up with a sexier word than infrastructure. So the key thing is that you have to go out and promote and market this the right way like with everything in policy.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
The key to success? Work hard, stay focused and marry a Kennedy.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger
