Key Things Quotes

• Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Motivational, Wisdom, Perseverance

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.

  Herman Cain

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

  Joe Strummer

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

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• At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting.

  Nicolas Berggruen

  Real, Keys, Fleeting

  "The New World of Nicolas Berggruen". Interview with Richard Bradley, www.worth.com. October 21, 2012.

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• The key things I learned as a hospital administrator are to be organized, communicate, and be flexible.

  Glen Mazzara

  Keys, Communicate, Organized

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• Twenty seconds before a race, there's absolute focus. The key thing is to achieve relaxation, but at the same to have absolute total control. You've got to find the balance between being totally ready to go and being really at peace with yourself as well.

  Cathy Freeman

  Sports, Running, Peace

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• The key thing to understand is that solar activity causes shifts in the jet stream with consequent changes in weather patterns and triggers processes that lead to storm formation.

  Piers Corbyn

  Weather, Keys, Storm

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• There is 3 key things for good photography: the camera,lighting and... Photoshop

  Tyra Banks

  Photography, Keys, Cameras

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• We sort of expect to see men in women's clothes. It's part of our culture. The key thing is, it has to be done quite badly.

  David Walliams

  Men, Keys, Clothes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.

  Tom Jones

  Moving, Keys, Changed

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• One of the key things that we did at Bank of North Dakota that I worked to try to do with our state economic development is make sure we are customer-service oriented.

  John Hoeven

  Keys, Trying, Development

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• The key thing that went wrong was that a culture was allowed to develop where the relationship between what people did and what they got went way out of alignment, especially at the top end.

  Alistair Darling

  Business, Keys, People

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• The key thing with any football player is, what can he do when he gets on the field.

  Shaun Alexander

  Football, Player, Keys

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• I think in life the key thing is just to fight really hard to make sure something survives. If it looks like you've done everything you can to avoid failure, just move forward, move on and learn from it.

  Richard Branson

  Moving, Fighting, Thinking

  "Richard Branson Responds To Elon Musk's Criticism; 'We're About To Prove Him Wrong'". Interview with Henry Blodget, www.businessinsider.com. October 18, 2014.

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• Sometimes it comes out in what I call tricksy behavior. That's not always easy to deal with, but it's fascinating. The key thing is to make sure that somebody's tricks don't trip up somebody else.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Keys, Sometimes, Easy

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 19, 2011.

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• A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.

  Ben Horowitz

  Keys, Leader, Management

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• It isnt easy to put all of the ingredients together and one of the key things is this is the first time theres been a real, significant governmental body participation. In our case, its Collin County and the City of Frisco, the Frisco Economic Development group and the Frisco Independent School District. Those bodies, and Hunt Sports Group, obviously, put money into the project, and that has helped make it work.

  Lamar Hunt

  Sports, Real, School

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• 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.

  Jimmy Wales

  Smart, School, Kids

  "Q&A" with Jimmy Wales, www.c-span.org. September 12, 2005.

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• The key thing about me is that I'm really not very interesting.

  Evan Davis

  Keys, Interesting, Very Interesting

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• The key thing is managed awareness of your role in the world and history. Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do.

  Dave Eggers

  Thinking, Keys, Important

  Dave Eggers (2012). “A Hologram for the King”, p.89, Vintage

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• I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.

  John Abizaid

  Military, Thinking, Keys

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• I sound the same regardless if I'm 20 pounds heavier or 20 pounds light, and I think that's the key thing with my fans and why they continue to be loyal because I'm that type of person.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Thinking, Keys, Light

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• Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.

  Usain Bolt

  Morning, Growing Up, Inspiration

  "Usain Bolt: Fast and loose". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2010.

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