Shortcut Quotations

People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another.

There's no shortcut to learning a craft; you just have to put the years in.

I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.

If an athlete takes a shortcut - literally, for example, by running a street that shortens the marathon route by a quarter mile - he or she doesn't have an insurmountable advantage. But it's an unfair advantage, and in a field of equally matched athletes, it's more than enough to make a difference.

I'm only interested in science fiction that's used as a literary device, a shortcut into something more exploratory or universal about our experience. That's why I think it was invented and why mythology was invented; it's a tool, not an end to itself.

Believe it or not, I'm as much a fan of a supper shortcut as the next person.

The purpose is to reduce the chance that somebody would be tempted to take an illegal or ill-advised shortcut across the railroad tracks.

My older brother taught me that there was no such thing as a shortcut home. If that's the way I gotta go home, I can't let anybody make me take a shortcut. I had to face that bully.

With the geological advantages, the pipeline we are building would be a speedy and convenient shortcut to transport oil from Russia.

We're not advocating speed bumps. The Ranchos is a shortcut and a speedway. Somebody is going to get killed, hurt or wrecked. The so-called squeaky wheel is what we are. I'm saying we need something.

We were there all day. In between, we had study hall, so we didn't leave the gym at all. Some people are like, 'Wow, you guys go for a really long time.' It was like a full-time job, 9-to-5. But it's like, hey, what you put in is definitely what you get out and you can't shortcut yourself. We put in the work. It's time to play the basketball we know how to play.

Coming from where I come from, I feel like I've got to do everything right. There's no shortcut for me. I've got to do everything the right way.

They always look for a shortcut when it comes to security.

The power of the brand name to consumers is a shortcut -- it provides a way to simplify things,

The way to build billion dollar companies is to first build something people love. There isn't really a shortcut there.

If you have a legitimate need you can get these records, the problem is these companies are offering an illegal shortcut that is unfair to the consumer.

Apparently this guy knows the shortcuts very well, ... In each case, he grabbed or attempted to grab women off a shortcut or footpath. That's a heavily treed and vegetated area, and the best line of defense is to stay off the shortcuts and footpaths that go back into the dark little recessed areas.

There really is no shortcut just because you have a name, or you have some kind of access or some way you can solve all the problems. And I think one of the things I learned with FUBU, you have to understand that there's really only two ways of operating a business: more sales, or lower overhead.