Short Cuts Quotes

• If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.

  Gary Busey

  Cutting, Shortcuts, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Gary Busey from Jun 25, 2013

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• There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

  Beverly Sills

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Conquering an Enemy Called Average". Book by John Mason, 1996.

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• Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.

  Larry Wall

  Keys, Littles, Shortcuts

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• Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.

  Rudy Rucker

  Shortcuts, Findings, Traditional

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• We all naturally want to become successful... we also want to take shortcuts. And it's easy to do so, but you can never take away the effort of hard work and discipline and sacrifice.

  Apolo Ohno

  Hard Work, Sacrifice, Successful

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• If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Nba, Hard Work Pays Off

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• I think "Heroes of Cosplay" will show a lot of the positive things, like how much effort it takes to make a costume. These people on the show aren't taking shortcuts. As long as that effort gets through to the viewers, we will be inspirational. Then there will be people who watch the show that want to get in and hands-on make outfits.

  Yaya Han

  Hero, Thinking, Hands

  "Cosplay's Wonder Woman: Yaya Han Leads 'Heroes Of Cosplay'". Interview with Aaron Sagers, www.mtv.com. August 13, 2013.

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• People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available to them won't get them closer to the comforts that they see others enjoying, the temptation to take shortcuts can be fierce.

  Katherine Boo

  Long, People, Temptation

  "The whorl of poverty". Interview with Elizabeth Taylor, www.chicagotribune.com. May 18, 2012.

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• I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Clever, Hate, Hard Work

  "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality". Book by Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2010.

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• Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

  Samuel Johnson

  Cutting, Evil, Wickedness

  Dr. Samuel Johnson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Johnson (Illustrated)”, p.7965, Delphi Classics

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• In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Running, Believe

  Henry Miller (1969). “Mémoires, Plaidoiries Et Documents”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

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• Short cuts make long delays.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Cutting, Long, Delay

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no short cut to acheivement.

  George Washington Carver

  Cutting

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• There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

  George Washington Carver

  Life, Cutting, Thorough Understanding

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• There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

  Anthony Trollope

  Art, Cutting, Literature

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Barchester Towers”, p.238, Anthony Trollope

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• Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.

  Roger Staubach

  Cutting, Athletics, Temporary

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• Success is not an accident. It is sheer hard work. There is no short-cuts. You have to take the stairs and you have to start from the bottom.

  Rita Zahara

  Success, Hard Work, Cutting

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• In the long run, a short cut seldom is.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Running, Cutting, Long

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• There are no short cuts. If you want to do something special, there's a serious price to pay. There's no way around it.

  Tom Thibodeau

  Cutting, Special, Want

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• Poetry forces a writer to condense and crystallise his thoughts and often represents a short cut to truths unsuspected by the author himself.

  Felix Dennis

  Cutting, Force

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• A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

  Petrarch

  Inspirational, Cutting, Desire

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• The name of God should no longer come from the mouth of man. This word that has so long been degraded by usage no longer means anything.... To use the word God is more than sloth, it is a refusal to think, a king of short cut, a hideous shorthand.

  Arthur Adamov

  God, Kings, Mean

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• There are no short cuts to the top.

  Ed Viesturs

  Cutting

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• Work hard. There is no short cut.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Hard Work, Cutting, Hard

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• If you spend too much time learning the 'tricks' of the trade, you may not learn the trade. There are no shortcuts. If you're working on finding a short cut, the easy way, you're not working hard enough on the fundamentals. You may get away with it for a spell, but there is no substitute for the basics. And the first basic is good, old fashioned hard work.

  John Wooden

  Hard Work, Cutting, Fundamentals

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