The "self-image" is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
~By Maxwell Maltz ~
I think the key to being a journalist is getting your subject to feel comfortable enough to talk about stuff they want to talk about and the stuff they like and don't like, and still feel comfortable about it.
~By Glenn Danzig ~
I love Bill Clinton. I think we should make him king. I'm talking the red robe, the turkey leg - everything.
~By Tim McGraw ~
Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.
~By Tim O'Reilly ~
One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.
~By Thomas Menino ~
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to write. We had to write something that was good and to sit up with a great guy like Art Blakey and watch him.
~By Freddie Hubbard ~
The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none.
~By Cofer Black ~
We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.
~By Marianne Williamson ~
Every city across the country that has successfully renewed and revitalized itself points to a robust education system as its fundamental key to success.
~By Alan Autry ~
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.
~By Michael Bergdahl ~
The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things.
~By Bruce Jackson ~
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.
~By Lauren Graham ~
Of course, China is a key to the North Korea if we're going to solve that riddle, but they could also be helpful on Iraq, which is why it's important that we maintain a constructive dialogue with China.
~By Frank Carlucci ~
Even in China. Children there, next to the Great Wall, who had never seen Mickey Mouse responded. So the studio did have that skill to communicate with images.
~By John Hench ~
Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention.
~By Mary Cheney ~
People on the streets are ready for hockey.
~By Eric Lindros ~
The papers reveal that in several key abortion cases, justices were keenly interested in the perceived public reaction to their rulings - indicating that courts can be influenced by public sentiment.
~By Lee Greenwood ~
The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
~By Vince McMahon ~
Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.
~By Mario Lemieux ~
I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.
~By Judy Garland ~
I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them.
~By Vladimir Horowitz ~
I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.
~By Chuck Mangione ~
When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did you just play... immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That's what we're going to miss.
~By Robin Gibb ~
To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round Keynes was indeed an intellectual treat.
~By James Meade ~
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
~By Tiger Woods ~
All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock.
~By Cy Young ~
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.
~By Michael Bergdahl ~
My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.
~By Alvin Adams ~
I got bored with the old way - it came too easy. I worked until I could play and chord changes at any tempo in any key, and then said 'What else is there?' Now I'm finding out.
~By Don Ellis ~
I used to like whiskey. But it's been a long time since I've been drunk.
~By Claude Williams ~
I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.
~By Neil Diamond ~
Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid.
~By Rob Zombie ~
A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.
~By Ely Culbertson ~
I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need.
~By Jonathan Kellerman ~
The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.
~By David Suzuki ~
No one is out to get you. It's just that... people are monkeys.
~By Stan Brakhage ~
One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.
~By Mary Pipher ~
The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.
~By Billy Sunday ~
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
~By Epictetus ~
My dear friend Jimmie Dodd was the heart and the soul of The Mickey Mouse Club.
~By Annette Funicello ~
Everything is difficult, and everything worthwhile is difficult. A certain need, a need not unlike Mickey had: to know, to understand, and I had that need to understand and to know.
~By Harvey Keitel ~
Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.
~By Carolyn Heilbrun ~
When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.
~By Clifford Stoll ~
We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.
~By Paul Haggis ~
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
~By Stephen Hawking ~
Canada is hockey.
~By Mike Weir ~
I know about having days off. They can be helpful sometimes, especially late in the year. It's just key to go out there and establish early, especially in this park where they can put up some crooked numbers early.
~By Dontrelle Willis ~
For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion.
~By Dweezil Zappa ~
I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow.
~By Vanessa Brown ~
The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.
~By Waverley Lewis Root ~
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
The key to education is the experience of beauty.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters.
~By Annette Funicello ~
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
~By Paul Muldoon ~
Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes.
~By John Hench ~
I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.
~By John Abizaid ~
I used to love watching him as a player, so it is a joy to play alongside him. I might take the mickey out of him, but deep down I have so much admiration for him.
~By Robbie Keane ~
If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.
~By Herschel Walker ~
You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.
~By Naomi Watts ~
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
~By Jiddu Krishnamurti ~
I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
The sexiest woman musician is Alicia Keys.
~By Pharrell Williams ~
For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he graduates from high school, he will be off doing whatever it is he is going to be doing - probably playing ice hockey.
~By Barbara Mandrell ~
Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
~By Adelaide Anne Procter ~
I love hockey, and I don't love it for any other reason than when I get out there and play, I enjoy it.
~By Brendan Fehr ~
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
~By J. Edgar Hoover ~
It was hard enough to drive those heavy old cars back then under normal circumstances, but with a crazed monkey clawing you at the same time, it becomes nearly impossible!
~By Tim Flock ~
Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada.
~By Steve Nash ~
Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
~By W. C. Fields ~
The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
~By Peter Abelard ~
I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard.
~By Bill Joy ~
Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.
~By Wangari Maathai ~
If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.
~By George Burns ~
I'm writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother Bear score side of things, I've brought into the new Tarzan songs. Thinking outside just guitar, bass, drums and keyboards.
~By Phil Collins ~
I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles.
~By Mark Messier ~
Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.
~By Erskine Bowles ~
For me, the key is I always have to be the same person.If someone was to hear me say something on Fox and hear me say something different on NPR, they would say, 'The guy is a hypocrite.'
~By Juan Williams ~
The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.
~By Timothy Garton Ash ~
The key word about The West Wing is show. It is not a reality show. It has nothing to do with reality.
~By Martin Sheen ~
When I was a kid, I remember playing hockey outside and whenever you did, you thought about playing for Finland vs. Sweden. That's just the way it was.
~By Teemu Selanne ~
What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.
~By Joseph Barbera ~
I write in all keys. I've always written in all keys. I've probably written a lot of songs in A.
~By Teena Marie ~
At the beginning of this album I discovered the computer and had great fun playing with the thing. And I realized that, not being a good keyboard player, I could write things in very small sections, give them a certain feel and mess about with bends on the keyboard.
~By Midge Ure ~
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.
~By Daniel Yergin ~
One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences.
~By Raymond E. Feist ~
Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.
~By Joanna Newsom ~
When it comes to the recording and writing, it's still mostly Mickey and I. But now there's this whole live entity that's a whole different thing, and it seems to be where we're gaining the most popularity.
~By Gene Ween ~
Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.
~By Paul J. Meyer ~
At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.
~By Jane D. Hull ~
God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.
~By Orson Scott Card ~
When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.
~By Rachel Perry ~
The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.
~By Henny Youngman ~
Crikey means gee whiz, wow!
~By Steve Irwin ~
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
~By Mario Andretti ~
Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
~By Walt Disney ~
I don't want to sound facetious, but humour is the key to the soul. You know what I mean?
~By Martin Lawrence ~
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