Keith Oatley Quotes

#1. In reading, friendship is restored immediately to its original purity. With books there is no forced sociability. If we pass the evening with those friends - books - it's because we really want to. When we leave them, we do so with regret and, when we have left them, there are none of those thoughts that spoil friendship: "What did they think of us?" - "Did we make a mistake and say something tactless?" - "Did they like us?" - nor is there the anxiety of being forgotten because of displacement by someone else. All such agitating thoughts expire as we enter the pure and calm friendship of reading. - Author: Marcel Proust

#2. The opposite of creativity is compliance to external imposition, having for one reason or another to bend to the will of another. - Author: Keith Oatley

#3. audacity was often the only thing that separated two equally talented men and their job titles. - Author: Keith Ferrazzi

#4. Keep a record of every picture you paint, have them photographed and write down where they went. Some day, when one reaches a great age, there will be calls for a Retrospective Exhibition of a life's work. - Author: Keith Shackleton

#5. Lobo: "Hmph! Never figured I'd wind up in heaven...A bad-ass dude like me!

Spirit Guide: "It happens sometimes. The "Infinite Mercy" clause is only used in extreme cases. - Author: Keith Giffen

#6. If you're cool, you don't know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain't. - Author: Keith Richards

#7. Everybody needs somebody sometimes. - Author: Keith Urban

#8. I don't feel 'vibes' when I enter a building - don't feel the previous owners looking down on me. But I do know when a place feels friendly. - Author: Penelope Keith

#9. My focus is anything that allows me to express myself. Rap, dance, photography. Those are my forms of expression. - Author: Keith Stanfield

#10. There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be part of our inborn nature and have a place in Nature's scheme of evolution. - Author: Arthur Keith

#11. I only get ill when I give up drugs. - Author: Keith Richards

#12. This man holds my hand as tightly as he holds my heart ... I hope he doesn't ever let go. - Author: Megan Keith

#13. I was taught that pain is bad. - Author: Keith Miller

#14. I can follow pretty much every programming language out there, I can make a two-hundred-year-old diary out of some really nasty ingredients, I can even make sense out of the instruction booklets that come with IKEA furniture, but I can*not* make heads or tails of this nonsense right here. - Author: Keith R.A. DeCandido

#15. Party of the Century by Deborah Davis, about Truman Capote's famous Black and White Ball. Capote by Gerald Clarke. Truman Capote by George Plimpton. Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. by Sam Wasson. Slim, the memoir of Slim Keith. And The Sisters by David Grafton, about Babe Paley and her sisters. - Author: Melanie Benjamin

#16. Enjoy things even when you're screwing up. - Author: Keith Johnstone

#17. You have to envision yourself winning to win. - Author: Keith Ferrazzi

#18. When you've got an extra gear in your head where that's all you do, you've constantly got a little radar up ... And when something hits that strikes that beeper, hits that radar, it's like my song skills kick right in and go, 'Oh, OK, there's a song in that.' And then I start trying to figure it out. - Author: Toby Keith

#19. We need to develop within our children and young people the capacity to respect the cultures and beliefs of the different groups that make up our society; and we need to develop the resolve to treat each other justly. Secondly, we must eliminate, so far as any society can, the under-achievement of many of our children and young people from all sections of the community. We need to raise the performance of all pupils and to tackle the obstacles to higher achievement which are common to all. But we also need to tackle those special factors which additionally may contribute to the under-achievement of many members of our ethnic minorities. - Author: Keith Joseph

#20. I write poetry, and I put it to a beat - I mean, that's what they call rap. - Author: Keith Stanfield

#21. by giving your time and expertise and sharing them freely, the pie gets bigger for everyone. - Author: Keith Ferrazzi

#22. Becky walked to the sea late in the day, trod barefoot among the tumbled blocks of stone that lined the foreshore, smelling the old harsh smell of salt, hearing the water slap and chuckle while from high above came the endless sinister trickling of the cliffs. Into her consciousness stole, maybe for the first time, the sense of loneliness; an oppression born of the gentle miles of summer water, the tall blackness of the headlands, the fingers of the stone ledges pushing out into the sea. - Author: Keith Roberts

#23. In addition to its use in arithmetic and science, the Hindu-Arabic number system is the only genuinely universal language on Earth, apart perhaps for the Windows operating system, which has achieved the near universal adoption of a conceptually and technologically poor product by the sheer force of market dominance. - Author: Keith Devlin

#24. Successful creators engage in an ongoing dialogue with their work. They put what's in their head on paper long before it's fully formed, and they watch and listen to what they've recorded, zigging and zagging until the right idea emerges. - Author: Robert Keith Sawyer

#25. Well you know I've been fan of Tony Hillerman's books for years. - Author: Keith Carradine

#26. The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing... - Author: Keith Richards

#27. There must be something in the water in Minnesota because historically, despite its seemingly homogeneous population, the state has produced some of our more radical political thinkers, and its people have put their prejudices aside to vote for them. - Author: Keith Ellison

#28. A jealous husband is an ugly thing. - Author: Keith Ablow

#29. His performance was also intensely visual, with his volatile movements in front of the piano, and his cries and wild vocal accompaniment to his playing, all of which spoke eloquently of his extraordinary passion for the instrument and the music he coaxed, tickled and sometimes pounded out of him. Many critics were put off by all this, thinking it was a mere outward show- and therefore insincere. In fact it is an essential part of music-making for Jarrett, his way of achieving his state of grace… the ecstasy of inspiration. Miles Davis understood that immediately, and so did most other musicians. Jack DeJohonette says: "The one thing that struck me about Keith, that made him stand out from other players, was that he really has a love affair with the piano, it's a relationship with that instrument… Keith's hands are actually quire small but because of that he can do things that a person like myself, or other pianists with normal hand spans, can't do… it enables him to overlap certain chord sequences and do rhythmic things and contrapuntal lines and get these effects of like, four people playing the piano… But I've never seen anybody just have such a rapport with their instrument and know its limitations but also push them to the limits, transcend the instrument – which is what I try and do with the drums as well. - Author: Ian Carr

#30. And yet this is farther than I've ever fell; You know me much too well. Funny it don't feel like we just met. It didn't take much time. Forever's more than crossed my mind, and we haven't even said 'I love you' yet. - Author: Toby Keith

#31. The companies I have traditionally seen do best over the long term had lead investors for their seed rounds - Author: Keith Rabois

#32. The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability a bunch of people. They form together in a massive ID and they do whatever they want. - Author: Keith Olbermann

#33. We try to buy as much American-made shirts as we can and stuff to sell. It's very difficult to cover every base as much as our country has been saturated with foreign products. - Author: Toby Keith

#34. So much misinformation has been published and broadcast over the years about Jimi's short but spectacular life by people with an interest only in self-aggrandizement, that a few years ago I finally decided to break my silence of twenty years and record my version of events. This is not just a story about Jimi, but it's about me, and others who I knew in those early days and who are no longer with us, like Keith Moon, Brian Jones and Chas Chandler, and it's about what it was like to live in those extraordinary times. - Author: Kathy Etchingham

#35. But first the past. Lily and Keith broke up because Lily wanted to act like a boy. That was the heart of the matter, really: girls acting like boys was in the air, and Lily wanted to try it out. So they had their first big row (its theme, ridiculously, was religion), and Lily announced *a trial separation*. The words came at him like a jolt of compressed air: such trials, he knew, were almost always a complete success. After two days of earnest misery, in his terrible room in the terrible flat in Earls Court, after two days of *desolation*, he phoned her and they met up, and tears were shed--on both side of the café table. She told him to be evolved about it. - Author: Martin Amis

#36. The less lines, the better. I am the silent film actor, but not in a slapstick sort of way. Film is an image-based medium, so whatever you can say without the words is far more provocative and punctuating. If the lines are not funny or if they don't advance the story, sometimes it's hard. I hate talk in movies. - Author: Callum Keith Rennie

#37. I think Pro Tools is pretty analogous to how people composed music on tape back in the 70s, taking little fragments of things and saying, 'How can we organize these in a sensible way'? - Author: Keith Fullerton Whitman

#38. Like laws and sausages, if you love parchment it is perhaps best not to see it being made. - Author: Keith Houston

#39. The trick is to recognize the flaw in yourself and work to correct it. - Author: Keith R.A. DeCandido

#40. Oh my God. I'm not Keith Richards. I'm Otis from Mayberry! A fucking drunk! - Author: Dave Mustaine