Key Quotes - page 5

The photogram, image formation outside the camera is the real key to photography, it embodies the essence... that allows us to capture light on light sensitive material without the use of any camera. (László Moholy-Nagy)
With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands. View quote
Ezra Pound
The key point to bear in mind is that Russia cannot be in Europe without Ukraine also being in Europe, whereas Ukraine can be in Europe without Russia being in Europe. View quote
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se. View quote
Charles Eames
The balance you have between drive and patience may be your master key to success. View quote
David Allen (author)
The vigorous branching of life's tree, and not the accumulating valor of mythical marches to progress, lies behind the persistence and expansion of organic diversity in our tough and constantly stressful world. And if we do not grasp the fundamental nature of branching as the key to life's passage across the geological stage, we will never understand evolution aright. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work, I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor; it's the work that matters. View quote
Jimmy Wales
[What her career looks like] "It looks like a marathon. And I'm proud that I'm not a DNF (did not finish). I'm not a DNF yet. I just kept going. I think that's been the key is just to keep going and really try to get better and try to be as truthful as I can and hope that good things come my way." View quote
Jennifer Beals
Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other. View quote
Karen Blixen
Warm-bloodedness is one of the key factors that have enabled mammals to conquer the Earth, and to develop the most complex bodies in the animal kingdom. In this series, we will travel the world to discover just how varied and how astonishing mammals are. (David Attenborough)
The most important thing is to actually think about what you do. To become aware and actually think about the effect of what you do on the environment and on society. That's key, and that underlies everything else. View quote
Jane Goodall
I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinite is native to it. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
Look, the key for me is to keep expectations low. View quote
George W. Bush
Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in my life that has happened that hasn't been extreme - personal health, family, economic situations...absurdity is the key word... View quote
Eva Hesse
The general misunderstanding of a work of art is often due to the fact that the key to its spiritual content and technical means is missed. Unless the observer is trained to a certain degree in the artistic idiom, he is apt to search for things which have little to do with the aesthetic content of a picture. He is likely to look for pure representational values when the emphasis is really upon music-like relationships. View quote
Hans Hofmann
Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something quite new. You must go on trying to be sincere. Each day you put on a mask, and you must take it off little by little. View quote
G. I. Gurdjieff
The key to happiness was achievable dreams. (Nicholas Sparks)
Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins a new work is to lay down the barriers and limitations; he decides upon a certain composition, a certain key, a certain relation of creatures or objects to each other. He is never free, and the more splendid his imagination, the more intense his feeling, the farther he goes from general truth and general emotion. View quote
Willa Cather
The new way of thinking, spawned by the cognitive revolution, shows strong promise ... Reversing previous doctrine in science, the new paradigm affirms that the world we live in is driven not solely by mindless physical forces but, more crucially, by subjective human values. Human values become the underlying key to world change. View quote
Roger Wolcott Sperry
I like to take chances, and that's the key to comedy -- dancing like an idiot but doing it with wild abandon. View quote
Megan Mullally
Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically. After all, when one thinks about it, it is not such a foolish thing to indulge in – particularly if it is the case that in bantering lies the key to human warmth. View quote
Kazuo Ishiguro