300 Quotes on Key

• I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord.

  Author: Neil Young

• But the key thing is that Iraq, while it's got very large oil reserves, has marginalized itself as an oil exporter and these days its exports are only about one tenth that of neighboring Saudi Arabia.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.

  Author: Elizabeth Wurtzel

• For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• What I'm going to be given I gather is not the key to the city, which in many cities is the case. It's the freedom medal, and for me freedom has always been associated traditionally within the city.

  Author: George Woodcock

• Having those extra dimensions and therefore many ways the string can vibrate in many different directions turns out to be the key to being able to describe all the particles that we see.

  Author: Edward Witten

• The music stuff has been very difficult. It's got to be right, and even then, it better be on key.

  Author: Michael Winslow

• The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.

  Author: Robert Wilson

• Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

  Author: E. Wilson

• He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

  Author: Nathaniel Willis

• I know about having days off. They can be helpful sometimes, especially late in the year. It's just key to go out there and establish early, especially in this park where they can put up some crooked numbers early.

  Author: Dontrelle Willis

• In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.

  Author: Kit Williams

• For me, the key is I always have to be the same person.If someone was to hear me say something on Fox and hear me say something different on NPR, they would say, 'The guy is a hypocrite.'

  Author: Juan Williams

• And there is no getting away from the fact - and this is a key point of discontent among many who are upset with the health care reform bill is it didn't go far enough. They say why isn't it in place now? Why don't I see some benefits now? All I see is the potential for losing insurance coverage, for premiums going up. That's hurting Obama.

  Author: Juan Williams

• Inspiration is the key to everything.

  Author: Olivia Wilde

• The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses.

  Author: Paul Westphal

• Most producers I've known were writers first, and writing is a vital part of any game show. You could easily argue that the writing is the key ingredient that makes 'Jeopardy!' so great.

  Author: Randy West

• 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.

  Author: Andrew Webber

• The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.

  Author: Earl Weaver

• The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

  Author: Earl Weaver

• And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.

  Author: Damon Wayans

• You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.

  Author: Naomi Watts

• High expectations are the key to everything.

  Author: Sam Walton

• I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me.

  Author: Margaret Walker

• The key to tackling Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism from the Islamist community is in the hands of moderate Muslims.

  Author: Gijs Vries

• Quality, affordable housing is a key element of a strong and secure Iowa.

  Author: Thomas Vilsack

• That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.

  Author: Gianni Versace

• The government wants to control the banks, just as it now controls GM and Chrysler, and will surely control the health industry in the not-too-distant future. Keeping them TARP-stuffed is the key to control.

  Author: Stuart Varney

• A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

  Author: Paul Valery

• Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.

  Author: Evelyn Underhill

• Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

  Author: Morihei Ueshiba

• The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

  Author: Lao Tzu

• In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?'

  Author: John Tuley

• One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

  Author: Donald Trump

• The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

  Author: Brian Tracy

• On the weekends, I would go down and play these clubs in Key West or West Palm Beach or surrounding areas of Florida and then I'd go back to school for the week.

  Author: Carrot Top

• A key factor is to do training that is fun.

  Author: Bill Toomey

• One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.

  Author: Bill Toomey

• A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.

  Author: J. Tolkien

• 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.

  Author: Allen Tate

• Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

  Author: Ida Tarbell

• We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

  Author: Gloria Swanson

• The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.

  Author: David Suzuki

• And that's what I've learned too: writing is key.

  Author: Trish Stratus

• The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote.

  Author: Rex Stout

• The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.

  Author: John Sr.

• The views of the European Union are fully reflected in this text, particularly the key objective of the EU, namely vigorously to address the disarmament of Iraq and to do so within the framework of the UN Security Council.

  Author: Javier Solana

• The key is, if you're not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.

  Author: Steven Soderbergh

• Playing along with records is key. And as far as equipment goes it has gotten so much more affordable and the drum sets are of great quality. I play Pearl; their Export Series is great for a beginner.

  Author: Chad Smith

• If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.

  Author: Yakov Smirnoff

• Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers.

  Author: John Shimkus

• The key word about The West Wing is show. It is not a reality show. It has nothing to do with reality.

  Author: Martin Sheen

• The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.

  Author: Robert Shea

• On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me.

  Author: Tommy Shaw

• Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it.

  Author: John Shadegg

• Music is the key to the female heart.

  Author: Johann Seume

• That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun.

  Author: Monica Seles

• I think we have played like a playoff team for some time. We can still do better. The key thing right now is to look forward, not behind you.

  Author: Teemu Selanne

• We've played with a lot of confidence and that's been the key so far. Hopefully, we can take more confidence into the playoffs.

  Author: Teemu Selanne

• Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.

  Author: Ridley Scott

• The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church.

  Author: Richard Scott

• This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do it, but others need help with the mindset, permission almost to listen to themselves. Understanding how things work is the key.

  Author: Sally Schneider

• This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.

  Author: Menachem Schneerson

• Location is the key to most businesses, and the entrepreneurs typically build their reputation at a particular spot.

  Author: Phyllis Schlafly

• The key to education is the experience of beauty.

  Author: Friedrich Schiller

• On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

  Author: Greta Scacchi

• Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.

  Author: John Saul

• The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.

  Author: Buffy Sainte-Marie

• Once this key conflict is eased, it will have a huge impact on the world. It will take time to find a solution. It's similar to the situation between East and the West at the time of my flight.

  Author: Mathias Rust

• Don't automatically obey Presidential directives if you disagree or if you suspect he hasn't considered key aspects of the issue.

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element.

  Author: Herb Ritts

• 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.

  Author: Adam Rickitt

• Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

  Author: Samuel Richardson

• But with lots of good ideas, implementation is the key, and so we need to keep our eye on the ball as we go forward and make sure that people honor their pledges in terms of financial commitments, and that we actually use this money so that it makes a real difference.

  Author: Mitchell Reiss

• I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.

  Author: Frederick Reines

• Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't deliver the emotions to your script there's no point to your story. Story is the key.

  Author: Robert Redford

• Reducing trade barriers with this key ally will go a long way toward increasing market access for American farmers, manufacturers and service providers.

  Author: Jim Ramstad

• In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.

  Author: Michael Pollan

• Action is the foundational key to all success.

  Author: Pablo Picasso

• I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her.

  Author: Matthew Perry

• The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.

  Author: Matthew Perry

• I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster.

  Author: Amanda Peet

• Suprisingly, one of the most complex pieces of code is the code to determine where a note is in the staff. Finale stores notes as relative scale positions in the current key.

  Author: Robert Patterson

• Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

  Author: Joe Paterno

• Maybe the higher echelons of my range aren't as easily accessible, but that's OK; you change the key.

  Author: Elaine Paige

• The key to online play really is multi-table tournaments.

  Author: Tim Page

• The most important thing for small businesses is getting the economy back on its feet. That - the key driver of small business activity is demand for their product, and that is what we are trying to do, getting the economy back on its feet. That's far more important than other factors.

  Author: Peter Orszag

• Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.

  Author: Tim O'Reilly

• A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.

  Author: Robert Orben

• In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors - all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq's future.

  Author: John Olver

• Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it.

  Author: Edward Olmos

• A key issue in developmental biology at that time was the problem of how cells underwent differentiation, with most workers concentrating on explanations in terms of changes in enzyme and gene regulation.

  Author: Paul Nurse

• The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time. Winning one week at a time. Never look back and never look ahead.

  Author: Chuck Noll

• For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything.

  Author: Kenneth Noland

• In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

  Author: Richard Nixon

• If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

  Author: Stevie Nicks

• I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.

  Author: Joanna Newsom

• I think the key is for women not to set any limits.

  Author: Martina Navratilova

• The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a pianist if by some miracle every key of his instrument should suddenly become a living thing.

  Author: Charles Munch

• I've said for a long time, clearly the - a, a critical key to success in the region is going to be Pakistan and our relationship with Pakistan, which was one that was broken in the late '80s and which we've worked hard to restore.

  Author: Michael Mullen

• The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

  Author: Paul Muldoon

• It's a disappointment to lose key players. On the other hand it creates an opportunity to play other players.

  Author: Tom Moody

• Our financial services and insurance cluster is one of Delaware's key economic drivers in the state.

  Author: Ruth Minner

• Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

  Author: John Milton

• Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

  Author: Dan Millman

• Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

  Author: Paul Meyer

• Listening is the key to everything good in music.

  Author: Pat Metheny

• For this to make sense, of course, it would have to be a fair financial deal for us. But I think this could be the occasion for us to build a true partnership in content. And we're especially interested because interactive services are a key field for us.

  Author: Jean-Marie Messier

• One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.

  Author: Thomas Menino

• If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education.

  Author: Ken Mehlman

• The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.

  Author: Vince McMahon

• At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.

  Author: John McLaughlin

• But the fact is, Mr. Chairman, for all the challenges the Postal Service of the 21st century faces, it still retains its traditional place as a key cog in how American businesses conduct their affairs and how Americans all across this land communicate.

  Author: John McHugh

• Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

  Author: Willie Mays

• A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.

  Author: Walter Martin

• The "self-image" is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

  Author: Maxwell Maltz

• You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.

  Author: Louis Malle

• Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country.

  Author: Richard Lugar

• I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.

  Author: Audre Lorde

• But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.

  Author: Audre Lorde

• There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.

  Author: Audre Lorde

• I don't want to sound facetious, but humour is the key to the soul. You know what I mean?

  Author: Martin Lawrence

• I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.

  Author: Hedy Lamarr

• Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.

  Author: Jack LaLanne

• I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology.

  Author: Jonathan Krohn

• In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

  Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti

• The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.

  Author: Bobby Knight

• The key to any successful plan is buy-in from the public, and what this process has demonstrated is the importance of including citizens in formulating a consensus plan that preserves our beautiful refuge.

  Author: Ron Kind

• Kobe enjoys that situation. Stepping up and making the big basket or being involved in a key play.

  Author: Jason Kidd

• I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.

  Author: Imran Khan

• 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.

  Author: Alicia Keys

• I remember Michael dribbling at the top of the key. Everybody knew to just get the hell out of his way.

  Author: Steve Kerr

• The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.

  Author: Patrick Kennedy

• The key to this collaboration - which we undertook after much deliberation - was to stretch creatively. New characters, new locales, new form (the novella).

  Author: Jonathan Kellerman

• I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need.

  Author: Jonathan Kellerman

• 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.

  Author: Al Kaline

• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  Author: Abdul Kalam

• Having an aim is the key to achieving your best.

  Author: Henry Kaiser

• To heal from the inside out is the key.

  Author: Wynonna Judd

• Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

  Author: Barbara Jordan

• As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.

  Author: Tom Jones

• To remain relevant though, I think making great records is the key.

  Author: Kelly Jones

• Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.

  Author: Chuck Jones

• My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.

  Author: Magic Johnson

• We all talk to ourselves. A major key to success exists in what we say to ourselves, which helps to shape our attitude and mindset.

  Author: Darren Johnson

• And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.

  Author: Joan Jett

• Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.

  Author: Ron Jaworski

• The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things.

  Author: Bruce Jackson

• The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.

  Author: Andrew Jackson

• Our nation must manage significant national security challenges over the next several years. We are already facing a potential conflict with Iraq, new challenges on the Korean peninsula, and key decisions in the president's plans to transform the military.

  Author: Duncan Hunter

• At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

  Author: Jane Hull

• Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.

  Author: Vanessa Hudgens

• Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.

  Author: Jinato Hu

• Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.

  Author: Jean Houston

• The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated.

  Author: Douglas Horton

• A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its opponents - America chief among them - by their worst deeds.

  Author: David Horowitz

• Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

  Author: J. Hoover

• There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people see rock'n'roll bands as the guitar player and the singer.

  Author: Shannon Hoon

• If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win.

  Author: John Holt, Jr.

• The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

  Author: Oliver Holmes

• The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

  Author: Abbie Hoffman

• The sound is the key; audiences will accept visual discontinuity much more easily than they'll accept jumps in the sound. If the track makes sense, you can do almost anything visually.

  Author: Paul Hirsch

• While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.

  Author: Ruben Hinojosa

• The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you want to spend. You could be the world champions and somebody else makes a key acquisition or two and you're through.

  Author: Whitey Herzog

• History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.

  Author: Eva Herzigova

• 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.

  Author: Andy Hertzfeld

• Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

  Author: George Herbert

• Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.

  Author: Jim Henson

• Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

  Author: Jimi Hendrix

• North Carolina, particularly the 8th District, has long played a key role in our Nation's military forces.

  Author: Robin Hayes

• We also had good software in the key categories and more focus on the gameplaying capability, so more of the marketing effort was targeted at game customers.

  Author: Trip Hawkins

• Our variety is one of the key reasons our customers love us. We continue to provide all of the menu items they love, while also offering new items to try.

  Author: Kenny Harrison

• Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland.

  Author: W. Harriman

• Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

  Author: David Hare

• A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses.

  Author: Lee Haney

• My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

  Author: Lasse Hallstrom

• We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.

  Author: Paul Haggis

• So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it.

  Author: Chris Hadfield

• So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function.

  Author: Albert Gyorgyi

• I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.

  Author: Maggie Gyllenhaal

• The papers reveal that in several key abortion cases, justices were keenly interested in the perceived public reaction to their rulings - indicating that courts can be influenced by public sentiment.

  Author: Lee Greenwood

• The traditions of a nation are very important and the anthem written by Francis Scott Key in the early days of our nation should always be revered.

  Author: Lee Greenwood

• But I think it's very key that there's a plan for Haiti. And we have to begin to - as progressives and people who are concerned about Haiti and have been concerned about Haiti, we have to begin to build some sort of consensus, a movement around the Haiti that the Haitians envision.

  Author: Danny Glover

• The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

  Author: Arnold Glasow

• If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.

  Author: Nikki Giovanni

• With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.

  Author: Vince Gill

• As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.

  Author: Barry Gibb

• Being a Hot Mom means being respected as a mom and a woman. And, the key to being a Hot Mom is having a sense of humor about yourself and all the crazy situations that arise.

  Author: Jami Gertz

• Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

  Author: Paul Gauguin

• If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.

  Author: Jan Garbarek

• I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece.

  Author: Jan Garbarek

• Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

  Author: Mohandas Gandhi

• Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.

  Author: Thomas Fuller

• The increased global linkages promote economic growth in the world through two key mechanisms: the division of labor and the international spillovers of knowledge.

  Author: Toshihiko Fukui

• The key to your universe is that you can choose.

  Author: Frederick Frieseke

• Young people are the key to this election.

  Author: Kinky Friedman

• 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.

  Author: Ace Frehley

• Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that.

  Author: John Frankenheimer

• The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions to promote the cause of revolution.

  Author: John Flynn

• I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

  Author: Gustave Flaubert

• We can even sing off key, but if it's produced properly it can be a hit.

  Author: Grandmaster Flash

• There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see.

  Author: Edward Fitzgerald

• But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding. It's a muscle, and the more you use it, the more you use it right, the more you should get out of it. So yes, I sing.

  Author: Harvey Fierstein

• The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself.

  Author: Douglas Feith

• One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences.

  Author: Raymond Feist

• Global warming is real. It is happening today. It is being charted by our satellites. It is being charted by our scientists. It is being charted by those of us in this body, and I think the real key is if we are ready to admit that fact and take the action to make the necessary conversion.

  Author: Diane Feinstein

• I think that's the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly.

  Author: Bobby Farrelly

• It's all about the script. Reality is key to me and less cutesy.

  Author: Jimmy Fallon

• The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

  Author: Epictetus

• Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

  Author: Eminem

• A key U.S. initiative in this trade war must be to develop reliable trading partners in the world.

  Author: Jo Emerson

• I got bored with the old way - it came too easy. I worked until I could play and chord changes at any tempo in any key, and then said 'What else is there?' Now I'm finding out.

  Author: Don Ellis

• When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy.

  Author: Joe Elliott

• All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

  Author: George Eliot

• A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.

  Author: Will Eisner

• The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before.

  Author: Dave Eggers

• Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

  Author: George Eastman

• Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

  Author: Charles Eames

• Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.

  Author: Henry Dyke

• The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

  Author: David Duchovny

• I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology.

  Author: Whitfield Diffie

• I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.

  Author: Neil Diamond

• I favor strategies that encourage industry to include some sort of key recovery capability in their systems which would also address user requirements for access.

  Author: Dorothy Denning

• I think most organizations have an interest in key recovery, at least with respect to stored data.

  Author: Dorothy Denning

• When you are making a record and if you spend too much time over it, you have to record it a tone lower or cut the tones lower because you can't reach some of the notes, I find this. But when you go on stage, you have to put the key up and it really changes the whole thing.

  Author: Ray Davies

• It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.

  Author: Lynn Davies

• I think the key to being a journalist is getting your subject to feel comfortable enough to talk about stuff they want to talk about and the stuff they like and don't like, and still feel comfortable about it.

  Author: Glenn Danzig

• Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.

  Author: Anthony D'Angelo

• Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

  Author: Mary Daly

• We're competing against other great cities: Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo. That's why it's important that we all join together on the final path to Copenhagen. Having the support of President Obama is key.

  Author: Richard Daley

• The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics.

  Author: Richard Curtis

• It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan.

  Author: Richard Curtis

• I never used to drink water. I am drinking six liters of water every day now. That's the key.

  Author: Warren Cuccurullo

• He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though there's a lot of production going on. I think that's the key and that's the magic, it's making sure that people could still connect with the lyrics while they're on the dance floor.

  Author: Deborah Cox

• The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

  Author: Stephen Covey

• I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

  Author: Bill Cosby

• There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her voice was out front and was the key instrument.

  Author: Rita Coolidge

• The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax us citizens for our carbon footprints.

  Author: John Coleman

• The word spiritual, not the word religious, is the key.

  Author: Clarence Clemons

• Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

  Author: Winston Churchill

• I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.

  Author: Warren Christopher

• The key is to keep improving. I'm not there yet. I know I have to keep trying to improve and keep trying to get faster.

  Author: Tyler Christopher

• From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

  Author: Dick Cheney

• Optimism is the key.

  Author: Will Champion

• Dear disgruntled artists: the key to success isn't kicking down the door; it's building your own.

  Author: Brian Celio

• In California, of all places, entertainment is the key to a vibrant economy. If we do not develop young adults capable of entering that world, the financial base of this state is sure to suffer and impact all of us.

  Author: David Cassidy

• The key to change... is to let go of fear.

  Author: Rosanne Cash

• So you have to force yourself out of a comfort zone and really try to figure out what are the key ingredients, the key skill sets, the key perspectives that are necessary, and then figure out a way to attract the very best people to fill those particular roles.

  Author: Steve Case

• Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

  Author: George Carver

• I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason.

  Author: Caleb Carr

• Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.

  Author: Mel Carnahan

• Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

  Author: John Carmack

• Of course, China is a key to the North Korea if we're going to solve that riddle, but they could also be helpful on Iraq, which is why it's important that we maintain a constructive dialogue with China.

  Author: Frank Carlucci

• But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.

  Author: Will Carleton

• Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.

  Author: Steve Buscemi

• Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.

  Author: John Burroughs

• If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.

  Author: George Burns

• The key to why things change is the key to everything.

  Author: James Burke

• Places I've lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it's roots in New Orleans and went crazy.

  Author: Jimmy Buffett

• Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

  Author: Jimmy Buffett

• The key to winning is poise under stress.

  Author: Paul Brown

• I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things with their lives that they really aren't happy with.

  Author: J. Brown

• The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding all the problems in biology we had found intractable - it was the birth of molecular biology.

  Author: Sydney Brenner

• I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow.

  Author: Carol Braun

• Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

  Author: Ray Bradbury

• Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

  Author: Erskine Bowles

• What's happened is that an incessant, an insidious insurgency has repeatedly attacked the key infrastructure targets, reducing outputs.

  Author: Stuart Bowen

• Happy Days was about a family... although the show was shot in the 70s, it was about a family in the 50s. I realized that kids were watching their parents grow up and the parents were watching themselves grow up. That was the key to the success of our show.

  Author: Tom Bosley

• I think he came to the front door and rang the bell, and Maggie let him in, and he said he had forgotten his key; so I think she must have been down stairs.

  Author: Lizzie Borden

• To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

  Author: Elayne Boosler

• Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

  Author: Corrie Boom

• Dick Clarke, who was head of counter-terrorism in the National Security Council, pushed constantly for the Principals Committee, which is the key national security group of top officials to take up the issue of terrorism.

  Author: Sidney Blumenthal

• When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.

  Author: Carla Bley

• The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

  Author: Ken Blanchard

• Simplicity is the key.

  Author: Ritchie Blackmore

• The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none.

  Author: Cofer Black

• In the first place, you must pay great attention to the key note.

  Author: William Billings

• It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.

  Author: William Bernbach

• Iran is central to our foreign policy in the Middle East, a major player in global energy markets, and a key country in terms of our interaction with the Muslim world.

  Author: Howard Berman

• The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution.

  Author: Michael Bergdahl

• The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a niche or pocket where you can leverage your strengths in the local marketplace.

  Author: Michael Bergdahl

• In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance.

  Author: Bo Bennett

• Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

  Author: Alexander Bell

• Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age.

  Author: Michael Behe

• I can't deny that some customers and prospects think it's the key to our future. But it's not. We're certainly supportive of the Dept. of Justice and the 20 states that have brought this action.

  Author: Jim Barksdale

• I'm not altogether sure what I'm going to do for that. I think it will be a lot more low key than the other two I've done. Dare I say it, a bit more relaxing.

  Author: Peter Banks

• The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

  Author: James Baldwin

• 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.

  Author: Adam Baldwin

• It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

  Author: Johannes Bach

• The key to truly rebuilding our central city on a vital and sustainable foundation is people.

  Author: Alan Autry

• Every city across the country that has successfully renewed and revitalized itself points to a robust education system as its fundamental key to success.

  Author: Alan Autry

• Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.

  Author: Sri Aurobindo

• One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

  Author: Arthur Ashe

• The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.

  Author: Timothy Ash

• Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

  Author: Hannah Arendt

• Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

  Author: Mario Andretti

• To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

  Author: Henri Amiel

• The key is growth margins went in the right direction, unit volume increased quarter on quarter, and expenses came down. We threw off over $300 million in cash. All of those were in the right direction. So I think we're on our way.

  Author: Gil Amelio

• Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

  Author: James Allen

• Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.

  Author: Amos Alcott

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