Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Church

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.

Eric Clapton

To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.

Emily VanCamp

I can be quite serious sometimes so laughing is key.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Be really, really true to yourself. That to me, has been key to me in understanding how I want to live the second half of my life.

Jack Kornfield

Though outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them.

J. J. Abrams

The noise you hear after people see something you do--whether it's a TV show or a movie--that always makes you see that thing slightly differently. Without question. The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. And test-screening a movie can be helpful too. But the part that can be dangerous is when you take those notes as gospel, instead of taking them with a grain of salt. The key is to use the response as one of the tools in your box, as opposed to using it to determine what you do.

Ivanka Trump

From a productivity perspective, prioritization is key. And it's very easy to focus on clearing the decks of minutia, especially when one's very busy. It's almost easy to want to sit down at your desk when you have a free five minutes and try to clear out some of the incoming emails rather than strip things strategically and foundationally and ask about what the most important objectives for you and the company are.

Jeaniene Frost

I was sitting cross-legged in bed, trying without success to pretend I'd misunderstood the image I'd glimpsed. Yeah, right. Because Vlad had been between my legs looking for a set of keys he'd lost.

Jeff Bezos

When you receive criticism from well-meaning people, it pays to ask, ‘Are they right?’ And if they are, you need to adapt what they’re doing. If they’re not right, if you really have conviction that they’re not right, you need to have that long-term willingness to be misunderstood. It’s a key part of invention.

Jim Henson

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

Jerry Rice

Chiropractic was the key to keeping me in the game.

John Templeton

No matter how poorly our lives seem to be going, we can become part of a greater flow of good and increase our awareness by doing something more than we have to do-by giving of ourselves. One of the keys to prosperity is realizing that prosperity doesn't come by getting more-it comes by giving more! We can prosper by emphasizing what we are giving rather than concentrating on what we are getting.

John Scofield

...The key to playing with any group is you listen all the time and you listen more than you play.

Seth Godin

One key to learning and success is the willingness to try something new, and feel momentarily incompetent.

Seth Godin

The key to getting a reputation for being brilliant is actually being brilliant, not just acting like you are.

Tom Colicchio

Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.

Rajneesh

Sinners live in a sort of hell, and saints imagine themselves in a sort of heaven. And the sage? - for him it is moksha, for him it is the absolute freedom. He is freed from all duality. The secret key, and the only key, is awareness.

Michael Josephson

One key to success is demanding more than adequacy, never settling for good enough and always doing a little bit more.

Michael Josephson

The key to success is effort. The bigger the goal, the greater the effort.

Markus Zusak

***A KEY WORD*** Imagined

Margaret Mead

The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.

Marco Tempest

One of the key qualities of all stories is that they are made to be shared.

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.

Michael Bergdahl

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.

Peter Drucker

Knowledge has become the key resource of the world economy.

Marissa Mayer

The prime reason the Google homepage is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn't know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. In fact, it was noted that the SUBMIT button was a long time coming and hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.

Megan Mullally

I like to take chances, and that's the key to comedy -- dancing like an idiot but doing it with wild abandon.

Max Lucado

The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today.

Max Brooks

Survival is the key word to remember—not victory, not conquest, just survival.

Mark Skousen

Balance in life is the key, as Aristotle taught us. Nobody likes a naive Pollyanna, but neither do we like to be around people who are constantly complaining and finding fault.

Maria Montessori

Order is ... the true key to rapidity of reaction.

Patricia Briggs

He left the key in the ignition. No one was likely to come up here and steal the truck- and if anyone did... well, he could deal with Charles

Phil Jackson

For us tall people, the whole key is that your hips and your knees should form a right angle when you sit down. That's where backs and hips get to be problems for big guys.