“I always liked major-key music quite a bit, and that might have something to do with so many of the musical experiences of my childhood being based around the piano. On piano, it is very easy to move between major and minor and to really see how it looks and to feel how it sounds.” FeelsLooksMightMovingEasyBitsSoundChildhoodKeysMajorsMusicalPianoMinorsMusical Experience Author:Andrew W.K.
“The familiar childhood admonition of 'counting to 10' before taking action works because it emphasizes the two key elements of anger management -- time and distraction.” TwoActionChildhoodKeysElementsManagementFamiliarDistractionCountingTaking ActionAnger ManagementAdmonition Author:Bill Vaughan
“And yet we constantly reclaim some part of that primal spontaneity through the youngest among us, not only through their sorrow and anger but simply through everyday discoveries, life unwrapped. To see a child touch the piano keys for the first time, to watch a small body slice through the surface of the water in a clean dive, is to experience the shock, not of the new, but of the familiar revisited as though it were strange and wonderful.” FirstsChildrenBodyWaterWatchesWonderfulChildhoodStrangeKeysSorrowDiscoveryFirst TimeExperienceCleanEverydaySurfaceFamiliarPianoShockSpontaneityPrimalPiano Keys Author:Anna Quindlen
“I'm a collector. I was born a collector. I came out of the womb a collector. I can trace it back to childhood - collecting used keys.” I CanUsedBornChildhoodKeysWombCollectingCollectors Author:Micah Lexier
“Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. Creativity is the omnipotence of the child's mind.” WorldMindChildrenCreativityChildhoodKeysCapacityAspectMaintainingOmnipotence Author:Donald Woods Winnicott
“Tackling childhood obesity is key.” ChildhoodKeysObesityTacklingChildhood Obesity Author:Diane Abbott
“Wonder knows that while you cannot look at the light, you cannot look at anything else without it. It is not exhausted by childhood, but finds its key there. It is a journey like a walk through the woods over the usual obstacles and around the common distractions while the voice of direction leads, saying, 'This is the way, walk ye in it.'” KnowsWayLooksLightVoiceWalksCommonWonderJourneyChildhoodKeysObstaclesWoodsDistractionUsualExhausted Author:Ravi Zacharias
“Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.” RunningRomanceComedyChildhoodKeysGrewGrew UpFasterControlledAdulthoodMy FutureCheatedI Cheated Author:Margaret Cho