Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eckhart Tolle

The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes germination of consciousness. The properly shaped question always emanates from an essential curiosity about what stands behind. Questions are the keys that cause the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.

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

Getting out and staying out of debt is key. debt is the biggest barrier, a parasite to wealth.

Albert Ellis

You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.

Annie Dillard

Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein "starts" shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water.

Daniel Kahneman

Spend some effort in figuring out why each decision did or did not pan out. Doing that systematically is key: really try to question the way you make decisions, and improve it.

Czeslaw Milosz

The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.

Conor Oberst

So I wait for the day when I'll hear the key as it turns in the lock And the guard will say to me, "Oh my patient prisoner you waited for this day and finally, you are free! You are free! You are free!

Claire Trevor

Key Largo... I could have stayed on that picture for the rest of my life. I adored it.

Danny Masterson

When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them...

David Frost

Being upbeat is the key to life.

David Foster Wallace

The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a word, unborable... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.

David Foster Wallace

To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish

David Copperfield

The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.

Dan Gillmor

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Cory Doctorow

Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.

Douglas Kennedy

We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for things both wondrous and horrific.

Douglas Engelbart

The key thing about all the world's big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don't get collectively smarter, we're doomed.

Douglas Horton

The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated.

Anita Roddick

One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.

Anita Roddick

Speed, agility and responsiveness are the keys to future success.

Andrew Williams

The key to contentedness is not the absence of work; neither is it to cap each day with the witless abandon of hollow entertainment, but to fill your days with that which fills your life with meaning.

Chuck Grassley

Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles.

Christopher Reeve

The key to success is letting the relationships in your life grow to the highest levels they possibly can . . . not putting yourself first in life and remembering that the more you give away, the more you have.

Andrew Stanton

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.

Ameen Rihani

Mutual tolerance is the stepping stone to mutual respect. A hospitable mind is the key to a neighboring or an alien spirit, looked by dogma and guarded by tradition.

Alicia Keys

I don't have a ton of friends, but the friends I have are great ones. I don't have huge family, but the family I have is a great one.

Alicia Keys

I'm not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I'm thick. I like my body.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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.

Debby Ryan

I'm very, very low-key in general.

E. O. Wilson

It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.

Drew Carey

Learn how to set goals. That's the key to everything. That includes designing your own success. You define what the goal is, it's not somebody else's goal, it's yours.