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Quotes About Shortcuts

Today's immoral quick fix is tomorrow's gaping and painful wound that never heals.
~ Dianne Marie Teresa Cole
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
I saw the infernal Thing blocking my path in the twilight. The dead travel fast, and by short cuts unknown to ordinary coolies. I laughed aloud a second time, and checked my laughter suddenly, for I was afraid I was going mad.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.
~ Roger Staubach
But let's not forget that if you are reading this book, then you are a reader and that means you've probably never had to think of all the shortcuts and strategies and bypasses that exist to get around reading
~ Malcolm Gladwell
The one thing in life you can control is your effort. Are there any shortcuts in the beauty business? No. That was the first lesson I learned. You can't just rocket to the top.
~ Mark Cuban
Being a 3, he is technically "resistant" in Follow Thru, which is typical of people with ADHD or VAST. In other words, they take shortcuts and let solutions evolve as they work on problems instead of planning an approach in advance. Dr.
~ Edward M. Hallowell
One of my great pleasures from the study of investing, finance, and economics is the discovery of insights about people and society. The physical sciences have rules such as the law of gravitation that generally hold true in the world as we know it. But human beings and the way they interact aren't covered by broad, unchanging theories and may never be. Instead I've come across more limited concepts that tie things together and serve as shortcuts to understanding.
~ Edward O. Thorp
Innovation applied across the board of development is having a huge impact, and can have more. All sorts of technology can provide shortcuts, can overcome obstacles which once seemed insuperable.
~ Helen Clark
Schools have figured this out. They need shortcuts in order to successfully process millions of students a year, and they've discovered that fear is a great shortcut on the way to teaching compliance.
~ Seth Godin
If you get into the habit of cutting corners, they start to add up.
~ Chris Weidman
Youth is ambitious. Youth would take short cuts to wealth and the desirable things for which it stands. To secure wealth quickly youth often borrows unwisely
~ George Clason
Many of us develop different flavors of cynicism that we work hard to resist because they can be lazy mental shortcuts.
~ James Comey
All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for research. I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.
~ Isabel Allende
I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.
~ Isabel Allende
It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.
~ Seth Godin
Our civilisation is haunted by the notion that the quickest way of doing anything is invariably the best.
~ George Orwell
In the World Cup, people of many nations come together for a fierce competition. To field the best team, all the competitor nations know that they need to train their athletes for many years, starting as early as the first moments a child can recognize a soccer ball. No shortcuts. No late starts.
~ J. B. Pritzker
They may have used alien technology in these things," she said. "But the software they installed to run it all was clearly created by humans—overworked, underpaid programmers like me who take all kinds of shortcuts. The security protocols on the file-sharing system are a total joke. It only took me about five minutes to jailbreak this thing.
~ Ernest Cline
and the shortcuts through the woods that led to the next barrio where all sorts of pocavergüenzas took place.
~ Esmeralda Santiago
Lesson to would-be fame seekers: It's not really a new world when it comes to celebrity. There are no shortcuts. It's still talent, perseverance and hard work. Even the speed and reach of the Net can't create lasting value and income overnight.
~ Sarah Lacy
Abbreviators do harm to knowledge and to love.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
No one knows better than I do how far heaven is, but I also know all the shortcuts. The secret is to die, when you want to, and not when He proposes. Or else to force Him to take you before your time.
~ Juan Rulfo
'Cost-saver' in industrial livestock agriculture may usually be taken to mean 'moral shortcut.'
~ Matthew Scully