Not Taking Shortcuts Quotes & Sayings

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts. — Italo Calvino

Dude you scare me sometimes! You're all vampire superwoman — Melissa De La Cruz

The paradox is that, by children taking shortcuts through computer games, through fantasies, through movies that load on all the emotional stimulation of encountering life in a stylized way - all of this is the equivalent of mainlining of paleolithic emotions, emotions about combat, about personal success, about overcoming monsters, about making powerful friendships, about winning wars and entering new territory. — E. O. Wilson

Certain beliefs must accompany every action: One should act without selfishness, cultivate compassion for all living things, and develop respect for others. — Dalai Lama

The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art. — Roland Barthes

For heaven's sake, Darling, keep your crusading instinct [for social justice] under control ... It's uncomfortable to live with especially for those of us who haven't got one. — P.D. James

I tell you, money can't build your spire for you. Build it of gold and it would simply sink deeper. — William Golding

Success is the result of hard work, busting your ass every day for years on end without cutting corners or taking shortcuts. — Ronda Rousey

I learned the hard way that taking shortcuts and living for free is not really living free. — Sophia Amoruso

I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics. — Barack Obama

There are no shortcuts. I approached practices the same way I approached games. You can't turn it on and off like a faucet. I couldn't dog it during practice and then, when I needed that extra push late in the game, expect it to be there. Very few people get anywhere by taking shortcuts. — Michael Jordan

Give yourself permission to get the most out of your life. If you're spending all your time scrubbing corners with a toothbrush, you're kind of missing the point. Taking shortcuts doesn't mean shortcutting the end result. — Sandra Lee

Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty — Jordan Belfort

Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting. — Zooey Deschanel

Success isn't something you have, it's something you do. Don't be fooled into taking shortcuts, they always lead to a dead-end. Instead, establish a goal, make a plan, and take purposeful action. Those who experience success are those who live it; those who earn it. — Steve Maraboli

I've found that taking shortcuts will get you to the place you don't want to be much quicker than they get u to the place u want to be. — Lennox Lewis

The working mothers of America deserve medals. — Constance Marie

It is one of the strictest conditions of initiation that occult knowledge may never be sold or used for gain. — Dion Fortune

People are prone to taking mental shortcuts. They may know that they shouldn't give out certain information, but the fear of not being nice, the fear of appearing ignorant, the fear of a perceived authority figure - all these are triggers, which can be used by a social engineer to convince a person to override established security procedures. — Kevin Mitnick

The problem with making an extrinsic reward the only destination that matters is that some people will choose the quickest route there, even if it means taking the low road. Indeed, most of the scandals and misbehavior that have seemed endemic to modern life involve shortcuts. — Daniel H. Pink

Then there is the cosmologist, who views himself as nothing but a manipulation of atoms; his mind configured out of randomness into the tool a vast, blind universe might use to perceive itself. If this is so then truly "all is vanity". What could be more pleasing to the cosmic narcissist than to gaze eternally with a billion eyes into the mirror that is himself? What fault, however, if certain eyes ultimately don't like what they see? — Dan Garfat-Pratt

In life, most short cuts end up taking longer than taking the longer route. — Suzy Kassem

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

Letting men die is a money-saving device. Safety costs money as one safety official put it, 'When everything is hurry, hurry, hurry, when you start pressuring people and taking shortcuts, things can go wrong. And then people die.' No. And then men die. — Warren Farrell