Short Circuit Quotes

• If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.

  Bruce Jenner

  Sports, Reading, Eye

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

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• I worked 18 years to become an overnight success. Now MagicPlace.com will short circuit that process for people.

  Criss Angel

  Years, People, Process

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• I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.

  Barbara Walters

  Atheist, Equal Pay, Sin City

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• I don't know about you, but I call impromptu vomiting harm.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Atheist, Sin City, Waking Life

  Karen Marie Moning (2006). “Darkfever: Fever Series”, p.82, Delacorte Press

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• I am a firm believer that the Lord sometimes has to short-circuit even our best plans for our benefit.

  Tony Dungy

  Benefits, Sometimes, Lord

  Tony Dungy (2007). “Quiet Strength: A Memoir”, p.111, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition.

  Arthur Koestler

  Intuition, Moments, Insight

  Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Death, Mother Night

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

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• Man's quest for knowledge is an expanding series whose limit is infinity, but philosophy seeks to attain that limit at one blow, by a short circuit providing the certainty of complete and inalterable truth. Science meanwhile advances at its gradual pace, often slowing to a crawl, and for periods it even walks in place, but eventually it reaches the various ultimate trenches dug by philosophical thought, and, quite heedless of the fact that it is not supposed to be able to cross those final barriers to the intellect, goes right on.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Men

  Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.

  Ken Venturi

  Golf, Two, Brain

  "The Masters 2011 - the final day, as it happened" by Scott Murray, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2011.

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• Love requited is a short circuit.

  Samuel Beckett

  Love, Affection, Circuits

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• To look for a job before looking deeply inward is likely to short-circuit the process of finding your calling.

  Dan Miller

  Jobs, Inward, Looks

  Dan Miller (2010). “48 Days to the Work You Love”, p.74, B&H Publishing Group

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• The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind

  Ayn Rand

  Cutting, Mind, Religion

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.174, Penguin

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• It doesn't do any good to wire the world if we short circuit the soul.

  Tom Brokaw

  Soul, Wire, World

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• Did Hillary Clinton short-circuit when she advocated for the overthrow of Muamar Gaddafi and Libya is now an Islamic State stranglehold?

  Rudy Giuliani

  Islamic, Gaddafi, Clinton

  "'This Week' Transcript: Rudy Giuliani and Michael Morell". abcnews.go.com. August 7, 2016.

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• The very act of accepting responsibility short-circuits and cancels out any negative emotions you may be experiencing.

  Brian Tracy

  Responsibility, Negative, May

  Brian Tracy (2010). “Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want -- Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible”, p.21, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Donald Trump can say hey, did she [Hillary Clinton] short-circuit when she reset the relationship with Vladimir Putin and now Russia is, according to "The New York Times" article today, Russia is in control in Syria?

  Rudy Giuliani

  New York, Russia, Hey

  "'This Week' Transcript: Rudy Giuliani and Michael Morell". abcnews.go.com. August 7, 2016.

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• It is not enough to wire the world if you short-circuit the soul. Technology without heart is not enough.

  Tom Brokaw

  Heart, Technology, Soul

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• A whole roomful of Jews is like a charged battery. The vitality sparks seem to fly, and frequently the result is a short circuit.

  Edna Ferber

  Vitality, Batteries, Sparks

  Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”

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• Detach the writer from the milieu where he has experienced his greatest sense of belonging, and you have created a discontinuity within his personality, a short circuit in his identity. The result is his originality, his creativity comes to an end. He becomes the one-book novelist or the one-trilogy writer.

  Henry Roth

  Book, Creativity, Personality

  1987 'The Eternal Plebeian and Other Matters', in Shifting Landscape.

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• Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie before the novel has even come out or been finished. It's a function of this hyper-accelerated society we live in, where everyone is trying to short circuit the process.

  Howard Gordon

  Writing, Eye, People

  "Exclusive: Howard Gordon Talks About His New Series HOMELAND and AWAKE, Plus Progress on the 24 Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 2, 2011.

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• If Jesus can live in you and you are no different than the world around you, something got short circuited because Jesus makes a difference.

  David Jeremiah

  Christian, Jesus, Differences

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• You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Strong, Attachment

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• What's exciting about using our mind is that we can short circuit all the excuses thrown up by our fears.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mind

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• Traditional dinosaur theory is full of short circuits. Like the antiquated wiring in an old house, the details sputter and burn out when specific parts are tested.

  Robert T. Bakker

  Science, House, Details

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• It takes the same energy to complain as it does to compliment. When there is a short circuit, there is a complaint, and when the energy is flowing, there is a compliment.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Spiritual, Energy, Doe

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