Keys Quotations | Page 3

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

It's important to maintain an attractive smile as you age. A lighter, less beige, more white tooth color is key, but no Chiclets.

It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness.

But what I really believe is education is a key to pretty much everything - prosperity, economics, peace, stability.

Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.

Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

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.

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

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

Historically, Labour has used technology as a form of control. We would use pagers and faxes to send out messages telling people what line to take. The key learning from the Obama campaign is to use technology to empower your supporters.

Learning to celebrate success is a key component of learning how to win in the market.

It's not what you spend but how you wear it that counts. The key is often to dress up inexpensive basics with accessories. Something like a beautiful designer bag or belt can make everything else look richer and more luxurious.

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

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.

Any Latin dance, whether it be salsa, cha cha, samba, etc., is very sexy for me to see a woman do. Using your hips is the key.

The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say. It's terribly important for everyone to get involved. Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.

It's the cross-training that's key. It doesn't let your body adapt to one stimulus too much and it keeps your workouts exciting.

Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.

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

Listening and hearing are two different things, and acting is comprehending what the person is saying, thinking how it makes you feel and responding. That's the key to really honest, truthful, compelling performance.

It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers

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

There's a joke in economics about the drunk who loses his keys in the street but only looks for them under the lightposts. When asked why, he says, 'because that's where the light is.' That's the problem with the deficit.

The key in mastering any kind of sales is switching statements about you and how great you are and what you do, to statements about them, and how great they are and how they will produce more and profit more from ownership of your product or service.

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

Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.

Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.

I'm a pretty low-key North Carolina boy. I like to go fishing and hang out with my friends.

The Tinted Windows shows were very fun but it's very different for me as a performer. I'm not playing music - I'm just singing and I missed that. I miss rocking out on keys, drums, guitar... whatever it is.

To be the key player in creating and scoring goals, that's what I take pride in, and the thing I know how to do best.

The key to management is to get rid of the managers.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

I was pretty nervous when I met Robert DeNiro. I kind of felt like a kid in a candy store for the first time. I couldn't wipe the grin off of my face. But Bobby DeNiro was really, really sweet and made me feel very comfortable. He's very low-key and just a superstar professional, and totally someone to be admired.

People are the key to success or extraordinary success.

My parents taught me that work ethic is one of the most important keys in life, and I believe it.

As a busy working mom I'm always pressed for time, so a quick and easy beauty routine is key!

I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss.

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.

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.

And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly.

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.

I want us to be judged by the impact we have on the health of the people of Africa and the health of women. Improvements in the health of the people of Africa and the health of women are key indicators of the performance of WHO. This is a health organization for the whole world... But we must focus our attention on the people in greatest need.

The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united in love among ourselves.

A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules.

The key to winning is choosing to do God's will and loving others with all you've got.

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

I've worked behind counters serving food, and I've lived on the circus train, and I've led bicycle tours in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and Russia. I've been a key liner for a newspaper, I've done typesetting. Oh, all sorts of things.

The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it has to do with tone because tone is the key signature for the poem. The basis of trust for a reader used to be meter and end-rhyme.

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.

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

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.

Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time.

Why doesn't Apple stop for a year and make medical devices? When people talk about technology, that's where I start to get a little hot under the collar because I know that it's the key to solving some of the world's biggest problems. Having a faster, thinner telephone is not one of the world's biggest problems.

Sustainability is the key to our survival on this planet and will also determine success on all levels.

Evening bags should be just big enough for my phone, lipstick, house key, and credit card.

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.

The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.

Good diet and exercise are key, but abject fear has its own rewards. And arriving on the first day for rehearsals for 'Spamalot' and seeing all these much younger, much fitter people, who I was going to be on stage with, became a catalyst for cutting out the more unhealthy aspects of my life.

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.

To heal from the inside out is the key.

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

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.

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.

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.

Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic.

If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

My style when I was 17 was very low-key with jeans, T-shirts, and Converse. I was signed to a major record label by then, so I had stylists helping me.

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.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.

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

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

The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote

When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.

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

A key factor is to do training that is fun.

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

Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.

When an attacker fails with one person, they often go to another person. The key is to report the attack to other departments. Workers should know to act like they are going along with what the hacker wants and take copious notes so the company will know what the hacker is trying to find.

The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.

In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.

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.

I first learned how to do hair from drag queens. I learned eyelashes are the key to life, because they make everyone look fabulous.

I get a lot of letters from introverts asking how they can meet people. The key is to make sure that you are doing things you enjoy.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken.

I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful.

When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.

No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.

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.

I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.

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.

The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.

On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones.

I'm much more low-key than the characters I've played.

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

If you have a business website, make it stickier; redo the merchandising often and try new things until you hit the right homepage... then try and beat that. The most important audience drivers on the Internet are paid search and key word optimization. Concentrate on those. They are very inexpensive compared to banner advertising.

It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of Americas foreign policy goals in the Middle East. As Syria goes, so goes the region.

By nature, I am a low-key person and like being behind the camera.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.