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"I keep going because I doubt myself. It drives me to be better. I've learned that the mastery of self-doubt is the key to success. It's like being animated by the love of a woman - the need to be worthy of her."
"We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty."
"Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it."
"Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart."
"One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And this is a tremendous new pleasure and interest which invests every walk or drive with an added object. So many colours on the hillside, each different in shadow and in sunlight; such brilliant reflections in the pool, each a key lower than what they repeat; such lovely lights gilding or silvering surface or outline, all tinted exquisitely with pale colour, rose, orange, green or violet."
"Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that the other holds the key to his puzzle."
"Virtue alone is sweet society, It keeps the key to all heroic hearts, And opens you a welcome in them all."
"The key to winning, as always, was looking as if you had every right, nay, duty to be where you were. It helped if you could also suggest in every line of your body that no one else had any rights to be doing anything, anywhere, whatsoever."
"And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine."
"We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings."
"Persons are not known by intellect alone, not by principles alone, but only by love. It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who he is, and who we are. It is only this realization that can open to us the real nature of our duty, and of right action."
"Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in."
"I suppose I learned organization from Altman."
"I try to exercise regularly every day, if I can. It renews you and it gives you more balance in your life. This is a key leverage point."
"The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value."
"That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow."
"Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success."
"To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the key without even recognizing that this is what you hold."
"He who binds His soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven."
"Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight."
