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• Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment. By concentrating our efforts upon a few major goals, our efficiency soars, our projects are completed we are going somewhere.

  Michael Korda

  Doors, Accomplishment, Goal

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• Four key words--helped make my dreams come true. They are: dedication, balance, risk, and love.

  Bonnie Blair

  Dream, Dedication, Risk

  Bonnie Blair (1996). “A Winning Edge”, p.5, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• The key to happiness is not to get more, but to enjoy what we have and to fill the empty frame of our lives instead of enlarging it.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Empty, Key To Happiness, Enjoy

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• Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key to the whole scene.

  John Huston

  Flow, Firsts, Introducing

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• When you trade, the key concern is not always the value of the pieces being exchanged, but what's left on the board.

  Dan Heisman

  Boards, Pieces, Chess

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• The key to beauty is always to be looking at someone who loves you, really.

  Julia Roberts

  Love You

  "Julia Roberts On Love, Motherhood And Getting Pranked". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2009.

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• I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers. Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Again and again throughout the course of my life I will forgive myself.

  Ann Patchett

  Grief, Believe, Book

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• Wine ... changing even as we taste it, delivers a message with meaning only in our response. If we are in the right key when we receive it, our eyes will shine and we shall radiate pleasure.

  Gerald Asher

  Wine, Eye, Shining

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• I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and torture the keys. My one saving grace as a writer is that, if I'm having trouble with the novel I'm writing, I write something else, a poem or a short story. I try to avoid writer's block by always writing something.

  Jess Walter

  Block, Coffee, Writing

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• Exercise is the key not only to physical health but to peace of mind.

  Nelson Mandela

  Motivational, Exercise, Mind

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.143, Pan Macmillan

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• The key to being a wonderful writer is not to write. You just get out of the way. Leave room for God to walk in the room. And when I write something that I know is right, I get on my knees and say 'thank you.'

  Michael Jackson

  Writing, Knees, Way

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• The key to the Grail is compassion, 'suffering with,' feeling another's sorrow as if it were your own. The one who finds the dynamo of compassion is the one who's found the Grail.

  Joseph Campbell

  Compassion, Feelings, Suffering

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• When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The word spiritual, not the word religious, is the key.

  Clarence Clemons

  Spiritual, Religious

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• Reducing trade barriers with this key ally will go a long way toward increasing market access for American farmers, manufacturers and service providers.

  Jim Ramstad

  Long, Allies, Way

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• Opposing taxes is a key conservative value.

  Newt Gingrich

  Conservative, Taxes, Opposing

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• I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

  Winston Churchill

  Russia, Action, Mystery

  Radio broadcast, 1 Oct. 1939

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• The key of D is daffodil yellow, B major is maroon, and B flat is blue.

  Marian McPartland

  Blue, Yellow, Maroon

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• Scientists are coming to recognise the effects of the mind on physical health. The sense of relaxation associated with inner peace involves not only being physically at ease. If you are nagged by worry or seething with anger, you’re not really relaxed. The key to relaxation is peace of mind. The relaxation gained from alcohol, drugs or just listening to music may seem attractive, but it doesn’t last.

  Dalai Lama

  Worry, Alcohol, Drug

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• Building trust is key to discovering and understanding your buyers' motives.

  Grant Cardone

  Understanding, Building, Buyers

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• In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Say Anything, Establishment, Delicate

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• Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Sacrifice, Demand

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.165, Knopf

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• When you are fully present with everyone you meet, you relinquish the conceptual identity you made for them - your interpretation of who they are and what they did in the past - and are able to interact without the egoic movements of desire and fear. Attention, which is alert stillness, is the key.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Desire, Identity

  Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.91, New World Library

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• When we change, the world changes. The key to all change is in our inner transformation- a change of our hearts and minds. This is human revolution. We all have the power to change. When we realize this truth, we can bring forth that power anywhere, anytime, and in any situation.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Heart, Mind, Revolution

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• The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available.

  Thomas Sowell

  Gun, Law, People

  "The great gun control fallacy" by Thomas Sowell, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2012.

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