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"I'm also big on journaling. You can write in the sand or on a watermelon or whatever suits you, but the key is to get it out of your head and out of your heart and down your arms and into something, a keyboard or piece of paper."
"Your attitude is either the lock on, or the key to the door of your success."
"The key to lasting happiness is to stop looking for it, and to know that you already have it."
"Spiritual awareness is not only one of the keys to the healing process. Spiritual awareness is the only way that healing can occur."
"We want lifelong good health and an end to fearing the aging process. By combining the fruits of modern neuroscience and timeless wisdom, you can achieve those goals. That is what your brain is designed for. The key is realizing that you are the user of your brain."
"Get your team in order, assembly is key"
"If honesty is the key to intimacy, it means we don't have to be perfect and we don't have to pretend to be perfect."
"An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door."
"Experimentation is the key to 'lively up' the art."
"Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it."
"If you take all the marketing books in the world and distill them, the key to marketing is hope. People buy hope, the hope that you will help them solve a problem or achieve a goal."
"The key is always the actual art itself, the actual music. There are all these myths out here that like, if you do this little trick, if you use this little strategy, it'll do it for you."
"Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only."
"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."
"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."
"The linden, in the fervors of July, Hums with a louder concert. When the wind Sweeps the broad forest in its summer prime, As when some master-hand exulting sweeps The keys of some great organ, ye give forth The music of the woodland depths, a hymn Of gladness and of thanks."
"Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney."
"Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question."
"Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings."
"Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner troubled by longings, incapable of finding a suitable language and despairing at the impossibility of composing messages in a playable key--as if I no longer understood the codes used by the estimable people who wanted to hear from me and would have so much to reply if only the impediments were taken away."
