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• ...The key to playing with any group is you listen all the time and you listen more than you play.

  John Scofield

  Play, Musician, Groups

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• Our customers want to give us more business and the key for us is to manage growing volumes properly.

  James Young

  Giving, Progress, Growing

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• If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.

  Tahir Shah

  Alcohol, Hot, Maintaining

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King, Dyslexic edition”, p.186, Lulu.com

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• I know about having days off. They can be helpful sometimes, especially late in the year. It's just key to go out there and establish early, especially in this park where they can put up some crooked numbers early.

  Dontrelle Willis

  Sports, Years, Numbers

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• Balance is key: I need to be successful in my career to feel fulfilled, be surrounded by people I care about to share it with, and have my health to be able to do the things I love to do!

  Kiana Tom

  Successful, Careers, People

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• I'm not talking about losing [agricultural] diversity in the same way that you lose your car keys. I'm talking about losing it in the same way that we lost the dinosaurs: actually losing it, never to be seen again.

  Cary Fowler

  Motivation, Inspiration, Talking

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• The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution.

  Michael Bergdahl

  Done, Execution, Operations

  Michael Bergdahl (2004). “What I Learned From Sam Walton: How to Compete and Thrive in a Wal-Mart World”, p.39, John Wiley & Sons

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• The key question for the future of Europe is whether these faiths will live together in peace or whether they will tear Europe apart.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Europe, Tears, Together

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• Do not place hope in finding a secret technique. Polish the mind through ceaseless training; that is the key to effective techniques.

  Kyuzo Mifune

  Motivational, Success, Hope

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• Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on collective debate precisely to prevent senior officials from freelancing, or putting their departmental interests first. For all the formal machinery, Eisenhower was very literally the commander in chief, making the key decisions himself and monitoring closely how they were carried out. Even years after D-Day, when critics needled him for not being on the front lines with the invading forces, he retorted, “I planned it and took responsibility for it. Did you want me to unload a truck?

  Nancy Gibbs

  Senior, Running, Responsibility

  Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• To do well does not mean everything will always turn out well. The key is to remember that faith and obedience are still the answers, even when things go wrong, perhaps especially when things go wrong.

  David E. Sorensen

  Mean, Doe, Answers

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• One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.

  Abraham Pais

  War, Needs, Caught

  "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 50), 2000.

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• They represent tomorrow's cigarette business. . . As this 14-24 age group matures, they will account for a key share of the total cigarette volume -- for at least the next 25 years.

  R. J. Reynolds

  Years, Age, Groups

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• First, let's look at the importance of the young adult in the cigarette market. In 1960, this young adult market , the 14 to 24 age group, represented 21% of the population. As seen by this chart, they will represent 27% of the population in 1975, they represent tomorrow's cigarette business, as this 14 -24 age group matures, they will account for a key share of the total cigarette volume -- for at least the next 25 years .

  R. J. Reynolds

  Years, Age, Adults

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• Today I felt like a part of something awesome, the human race. I know it can be ugly; it really is in so many ways. But today there was nothing ugly to see, just people trying to be better. And maybe that's the key. Not resolutions and forgotten promises, but instead a commitment to do this year a little better than the last. I'm feeling good about this one. I really am.

  Andrew McMahon

  Commitment, Race, Years

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• Clarity of mind, body and spirit is the key to creativity.

  Dan Wakefield

  Creativity, Mind, Body

  Dan Wakefield (2010). “Creating from the Spirit: A Path to Creative Power in Art and Life”, p.11, Beech River Books

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• We don’t know what we’re capable of until we have to survive. Each of us is stronger than we know - the key is learning to tap that power at will.

  Scott O'Grady

  Stronger, Knows, Capable

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• In Náhuatl, the language of the Aztec world, one key word for poet was 'tlamatine,' meaning 'the one who knows,' or 'he who knows something.' Poets were considered 'sages of the word,' who meditated on human enigmas and explored the beyond, the realm of the gods.

  Edward Hirsch

  Aztec, Sage, World

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• When the next step is unclear, the best way to figure it out is to take action. Constant motion is the key to execution.

  Scott Belsky

  Next Steps, Way, Execution

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• They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so easily won? Simply the inevitable result of a happy childhood. What makes childhood happy? Parental harmony? Good health? Security? Might not a happy childhood be the worst possible preparation for life? Like leading a lamb to the slaughter.

  Josephine Hart

  Childhood, Soul, Preparation

  Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• On the light side everyone thinks they are the most important, that their own understandings, or their group's understandings, are the key. There's a diversity of cultures and opinions, so there is competition, diffusion, and no single focus.

  Carlos Barrios

  Thinking, Light, Diversity

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• Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.

  Abbe Pierre

  Years, Seven Years, Seven

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• You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know it.

  John Dufresne

  Missing, Wallets, Knows

  John Dufresne (2008). “Love Warps the Mind a Little: A Novel”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• One of the key qualities of all stories is that they are made to be shared.

  Marco Tempest

  Quality, Stories, Made

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• The key is to trust in your preparation. You have done all you can, so focus on that fact. You will remain the same person before, during and after the race, so the result, however important, will not define you. The journey is what matters.

  Chrissie Wellington

  Motivational, Journey, What Matters

  Chrissie Wellington (2012). “A Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey”, p.120, Hachette UK

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