“She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think in some ways, we have all done this our whole lives, searching for the book that will give us the keys to ourselves, let us into a wholly formed personality as though it were a furnished room to let. As though we could walk in and look around and say to the gray-haired landlady behind us, "We'll take it."” ThinkingWayGivingLooksBookMatterHardDoneWholeHoursWalksRoomsBehindsWeekKeysPersonalityPagesWhole LifeGrayTraitsSister Author:Eleanor Brown
“The key to success in any kind of start up is your level of persistence. It's not so much your intellect. The Zuckerburg's, Pages and Brins, that succeed have such a level of belief in what they are doing that they will put up with the kind of crap that most people won't put up with, they are incredibly persistent and resilient.” PeopleKindBeliefLevelsKeysSucceedPagesIntellectPersistenceCrapKey To SuccessPersistentResilient Author:Robert Greene
“The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world.” WorldChildrenFilmLike YouKeysPagesNew WorldBlankBlank PagesKey Things Author:Marc Forster
“You have no idea what's going to happen [in Downton Abbey] until you get the script. We roughly knew a couple of the key points that were going to happen, but when I got the last episode, I turned to the last page to check that I was still alive.” StillsIdeasHappensLastsAliveKeysCouplePagesScriptsChecksNo IdeaEpisodesAbbey Author:Hugh Bonneville
“The key role of entrepreneurs, like the most crucial role of scientists, is not to fill in the gaps in an existing market or theory, but to generate entirely new markets or theories. . .They stand before a canvas as empty as any painter's; a page as blank as any poet's.” RolesPoetTheoryKeysPagesEmptyScientistEntrepreneurPainterGapsCrucialBlankCanvas Book:The Spirit of Enterprise Source: The Spirit of Enterprise
“The largest tax reduction in American history, one page tax form, reducing government spending. Those are all the keys to economic progress.” GovernmentFormProgressEconomicKeysTaxesPagesSpendingAmerican HistoryReducingReductionGovernment SpendingEconomic Progress Author:Rudy Giuliani
“The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.” MayImportantPoliticalReligionAtheismKeysCivilizationBehaviorMassPagesWesternAtheistMurdererWestern Civilization Author:Robert Anton Wilson
“So imagine a fire going -- wood snapping the way it does when it’s a little green — the wind rattling the windows behind the curtains -- and one of those Chopin melodies that feel like sorrow and ecstasy all mixed together pouring from the keys -- and you have my idea of happiness. Or just reading, reading and lamplight, the sound of pages turning. And so you dare to be happy. You do that thing. You dare.” WayFeelsLittlesDoeIdeasTogetherReadingSoundBehindsFireImagineWindKeysSorrowPagesWindowGreenDareWoodsMelodyEcstasyCurtainsPouringSnappingPages Turning Book:The King in the Tree Source: The King in the Tree
“It is a peculiar thing to believe that you know someone intimately only to find that you really do not. It is like finishing a book only to discover that you have missed several key chapters. THE LETTER Chapter 9 page 104” KnowsBelieveBookKeysPagesLettersPeculiarChaptersFinishingFinishing A Book Author:Richard Paul Evans