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• Do not place hope in finding a secret technique. Polish the mind through ceaseless training; that is the key to effective techniques.

  Kyuzo Mifune

  Motivational, Success, Hope

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• Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on collective debate precisely to prevent senior officials from freelancing, or putting their departmental interests first. For all the formal machinery, Eisenhower was very literally the commander in chief, making the key decisions himself and monitoring closely how they were carried out. Even years after D-Day, when critics needled him for not being on the front lines with the invading forces, he retorted, “I planned it and took responsibility for it. Did you want me to unload a truck?

  Nancy Gibbs

  Senior, Running, Responsibility

  Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• To do well does not mean everything will always turn out well. The key is to remember that faith and obedience are still the answers, even when things go wrong, perhaps especially when things go wrong.

  David E. Sorensen

  Mean, Doe, Answers

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• One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.

  Abraham Pais

  War, Needs, Caught

  "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 50), 2000.

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• Today I felt like a part of something awesome, the human race. I know it can be ugly; it really is in so many ways. But today there was nothing ugly to see, just people trying to be better. And maybe that's the key. Not resolutions and forgotten promises, but instead a commitment to do this year a little better than the last. I'm feeling good about this one. I really am.

  Andrew McMahon

  Commitment, Race, Years

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• Clarity of mind, body and spirit is the key to creativity.

  Dan Wakefield

  Creativity, Mind, Body

  Dan Wakefield (2010). “Creating from the Spirit: A Path to Creative Power in Art and Life”, p.11, Beech River Books

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• In Náhuatl, the language of the Aztec world, one key word for poet was 'tlamatine,' meaning 'the one who knows,' or 'he who knows something.' Poets were considered 'sages of the word,' who meditated on human enigmas and explored the beyond, the realm of the gods.

  Edward Hirsch

  Aztec, Sage, World

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• On the light side everyone thinks they are the most important, that their own understandings, or their group's understandings, are the key. There's a diversity of cultures and opinions, so there is competition, diffusion, and no single focus.

  Carlos Barrios

  Thinking, Light, Diversity

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

  Abbe Pierre

  Years, Seven Years, Seven

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• You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know it.

  John Dufresne

  Missing, Wallets, Knows

  John Dufresne (2008). “Love Warps the Mind a Little: A Novel”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But it's really more introspective than communicative. Like a crossword puzzle compared to a poem.

  Paul Desmond

  Different, Balls, Phrases

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• When we had gone down there you have to remember KISS had never been to Australia. So all the hysteria of KISS that was happening in the seventies was building up in Australia. These kids were waiting seven years to see KISS. I was lucky enough to be there when we went over. We got the key to the city, it was just great.

  Eric Carr

  Kids, Kissing, Years

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• The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions to promote the cause of revolution.

  John T. Flynn

  Order, Unions, Etc

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• I couldn't wait to look at someone who shared my genes. I thought my baby was going to provide a decoder key to my past. But then I looked at Pippa and realized, no, she's actually the key to my future.

  Emily Procter

  Baby, Past, Waiting

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• Having an aim is the key to achieving your best.

  Henry J. Kaiser

  Achieve, Aim

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• Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.

  Roger von Oech

  Real, Lying, Ideas

  Roger Von Oech (2001). “Whack on the Side of the Head”, Mjf Books

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• The key to getting the most from choice is to be choosy about choosing.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Motivation, Inspiration, Choices

  "How to make choosing easier". TED conference, www.ted.com. November, 2011.

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• The key to success is failure… Success is made of 99 percent failure.

  James Dyson

  Key To Success, Made, Success Failure

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• You suppose you are the trouble
  But you are the cure
  You suppose that you are the lock on the door
  But you are the key that opens it
  It's too bad that you want to be someone else
  You don't see your own face, your own beauty
  Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours.

  Rumi

  Beautiful, Doors, Locks

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• If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience, for patience is the key to joy.

  Rumi

  Joy, Having Patience, Perplexed

  "Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance". Book by Rumi, translated by Camille Adams Helminsk and Kabir Helminski, 1990.

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• The key to maintaining your inspiration in the day-to-day work of meditation practice is to approach it as play—a happy opportunity to master practical skills, to raise questions, experiment, and explore.

  Thanissaro Bhikkhu

  Inspirational, Happy, Buddhist

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• Desire is the key to motivation. It is the key to develop a healthy personality and a positive attitude towards oneself and others.

  Amit Abraham

  Inspirational, Motivation, Attitude

  New Dawn Press, Incorporated, Amit Abraham (2004). “Personality Development Through Positive Thinking”, p.9, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd

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• Until, modern times when it became mostly a civic task, education was considered a sacred work. It was sacred because it involved the indwelling spirit in the student and because it required an awakened spirit in the teachers. Spirit to spirit, genius to genius, soul to soul go the true lessons that help young people become themselves. Ultimately, each person holds the key to the story trying to be lived from within, but first someone else must help unlock the mystery of one’s life.

  Michael Meade

  Teacher, People, Soul

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• There should be painless progression, attended by life and peace....Mortals will some day assert their freedom in the name of Almighty God....Dropping their present beliefs, they will recognize harmony and as the spiritual reality and discord as the material unreality. Chapter VII pp. 224 and 228 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Spiritual, Reality, Names

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• When we are upset, it’s easy to blame others. However, the true cause of our feelings is within us. For example, imagine yourself as a glass of water. Now, imagine past negative experiences as sediment at the bottom of your glass. Next, think of others as spoons. When one stirs, the sediment clouds your water. It may appear that the spoon caused the water to cloud – but if there were no sediment, the water would remain clear no matter what. The key, then, is to identify our sediment and actively work to remove it.

  Josei Toda

  Inspirational, Sad, Past

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