All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
Adam Gopnik
Perhaps the secret of living a holy life is to avoid every thing which will displease God and grieve the Spirit, and to be strictly attentive to the means of grace.
Adoniram Judson
The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.
Al Capp
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Aldous Huxley
The secret of my success? I speak in a loud clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.
Alfred Lunt
I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.
Alice Walker
The secret of the wise man is to learn from the errors of others.
Alisson
I think the secret of the world lies in the C major scale. The universe opens its doors when a major scale is played. There's stuff going on in a major scale that is a direct connection to divine, universal hugeness.
Andrew W.K.
To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success.
Anna Pavlova
The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.
Annabelle Selldorf
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
Aristotle Onassis
The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.
Arnold Palmer
Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all.
Artur Rodzinski
Music is my soul and I can easily say, it is the secret of my youth.
Bappi Lahiri
The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
Barbara Ehrenreich
I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.
Barry Humphries
The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Men who have reached and passed 45, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
We played at a festival in Mexico City, at the same time as another famous artist, and I reckon we had 55,000 people watching New Order; the other had 7,000. I think from that I've discovered the secret of success in the music industry: don't do any promotion.
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
When I began, I was more of a swing bowler with little pace, but I realized it will be difficult to sustain without the pace, so my fitness has now allowed me maybe an extra yard of pace. That has been the secret of my success.
Spend more time in study and prayer. That's the secret of successful evangelism.
Conservative ideas don't just sound good. They actually work. That's the secret of our success.
The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.
I don't know the secret of Mrs. Brown, but what I do know is that there are things that Mrs. Brown says and does that Brendan O'Carroll couldn't get away with. I think maybe it's a leniency that they're with an old woman. It's the old woman thing. I think secretly we all just want to be Joan Rivers.
The secret of my success is that I deeply respect and learn from my peers and customers.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.
I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.
May we have communion with God in the secret of our hearts, and find Him to be to us as a little sanctuary.
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
The secret of success in cinema lies in not just being talented but showcasing your talent to the audience. And, that happens only when you get the right films and directors.
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.
The secret of getting things done is to act!
The secret of any kind of reporting is to go with a guide. So if you, you're going to see Hezbollah in Beirut, you go with someone who knows the local people, and you'll be fine.
The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
In all honesty, if somebody asked me the secret of auditioning for Americans, I don't know. Often, I do what's called self-taping for America. I go over there quite a lot to sit in a room and do stuff in front of people. You feel like a performing monkey. It's bizarre.
We always said our career was built on our friendship and that our friendship was the secret of our success. The career just happened by accident.
I am a big foodie, so much so that I eat in every half an hour. This is the secret of my glowing skin.
Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.
The secret of the Internet's success has been its openness to new services.
I don't have the feeling that I need to add a lot to my collection, because I have an incredibly wide range of things. This is a part of the secret of my things, that they are still valid. When I feel a need, I do something more.
In our case, we focus on quality, and we have a very simple model. If we show fewer ads that are more targeted, those ads are worth more. So we're in this strange situation where we show a smaller number of ads and we make more money because we show better ads. And that's the secret of Google.
