“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
“Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.” StarsRoomsRocksKeysCardsRock StarBusiness Card Author:Thomas Friedman
“Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. Wherever I go I meet innovators of wind power equipment, solar energy operators.” EnergyStarsRoomsRocksWindKeysCardsEquipmentRock StarInnovatorsOperatorsSolar EnergyBusiness CardWind Power Author:Thomas Friedman
“Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language is alone in a room doing skull-numbing rote memorization of vocabulary, grammar, key phrases, and colloquialisms. The best way is in bed.” WayGamesLanguageRoomsKeysBedMethodBest WayPhrasesAbstractBullshitRight WayVocabularyGrammarAcquisitionSkullsForeign LanguageSecond BestNumbingLanguage AcquisitionMemorization Author:Chuck Thompson
“If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather - assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence.” IfsMenTryingStillsReasonOrderHouseRoomsBehindsWindKeysHigherThousandTenGunTownsSuperiorsWeatherLockedPrudenceCasualProceedingDischargeHaresConjectureMoors Book:Contemporary Mind - Some Modern Answers Source: Contemporary Mind - Some Modern Answers
“They say productivity is the key to confidence, and confidence ... to productivity. And they're happy walking back and forth between these two rooms, each the excuse for the other.” TwoRoomsKeysWalkingExcuseProductivityBack And Forth Author:James Richardson
“Civilization has imposed countless restrictions and conventions on each of us, with the result that the subconscious in the majority of us has become a storage room without a key. We are forced to suppress or forget so many events and ideas and thoughts that those to which we should have access are lost in the welter. However, there are people who seem capable of unlocking this part of their minds and extracting relevant information.” PeopleShouldMindIdeasSeemsLostForgetRoomsResultsEventsInformationKeysCivilizationCapableShould HaveMajorityAccessRelevantConventionsSubconsciousRestrictionStorageUnlocking Book:The weak-eyed bat Source: The weak-eyed bat
“So, think about how you use a disc that you own of an Xbox 360 game. If I buy the disc from a store, I use that disc in my machine, I can give that disc to my son and he can play it on his 360 in his room. We both can't play at the same time, but the disc is the key to playing. I can go round to your house and give you that disc and you can play on that game as well.” IfsThinkingGivingWellsI CanPlayUseGamesHouseRoomsSonKeysMachinesRoundsStoresMy SonDiscsXbox Author:Larry Hryb
“It's much easier when your team's winning. When your team starts to lose, that's where a lot of these quarterback controversies divide a locker room. The key, as a pro, is to be a pro.” WinningLosesRoomsTeamKeysEasierDividesControversyQuarterbackLockersLocker Room Author:Kurt Warner
“This vacation tip: If you see a gas station with a sign that says Clean Rest Rooms, it means one thing--the door is locked and no one can find the key.” IfsMeanRoomsDoorsOne ThingKeysCleanGasStationsVacationLockedGas Stations Author:Pat Williams
“When I moved to New York, I had nothing. And a friend of mine also had nothing. And he said, 'Hey, come with me to the Marriot Marquis. And if you go to the 30th floor, and you wait by this door, and you sneak in, you can get free food.' And I did that for three years. I was prepared if anyone said, 'Can we see your room key?' to be like, 'Do you know who I am? I'm Bob Marriot's nephew.' Um, so great, I'm glad to be here and have free food again. And I didn't have to sneak in!” IfsKnowsYearsSaidThreeWaitingRoomsDoorsNew YorkMinesKeysMovedPreparedGladWho I AmHeyDo You KnowThree YearsBobSneakNephewYour RoomSneak InFree Food Author:Santino Fontana