Key Concept Quotes

I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.

One God idea is worth more than a thousand good ideas.

Radical simply means grasping things at the root.

The most powerful thing in the world is an idea.

Education is key. I graduated from high school; everyone needs to.

The story is the first thing and the last thing.

Try to reach for a simple, visual phrase that tells you what the picture is all about and evokes the essence of the story

Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.

When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.

Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.

Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that no force can open the door until just this word has been hit upon, and once it is hit upon any child can open it.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.

The melody is generally what the piece is all about.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.

If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.

Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperçu, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena. Such becoming aware is infinitely fertile.