Shortcuts Quotations

There will always be competition, especially in showbiz. There's always someone younger and hungrier standing behind you; there's always someone with more contacts; there's always someone whose grandfather or father is a filmmaker. I think your job is just to be there 100% - you work hard, and there are no shortcuts to success.

I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.

There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.

I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.

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

There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.

Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.

There are no shortcuts when it comes to getting out of debt.

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.

If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.

Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to be carefully sown into the fabric of their companies.

Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.

Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.

When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.

By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.

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.

Next thing I knew I had a few of my songs (in the film). (But) my brother is not that generous. He doesn't give me shortcuts to get ahead.

Obviously, it's a tragedy for the family and friends of this individual. Train tracks are not places for shortcuts and recreation. It's a very unforgiving environment.

There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.

Every shortcut has a price usually greater than the reward.

There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.

I think I can say with confidence that we've left no stone unturned. We've made no shortcuts in development. We've done everything we can.

Most, if not all, of these people down there were trying to do the right thing. They were under a lot of pressure, and they took a lot of shortcuts that may have resulted in a lot of waste. And they may have abused their authority to enter into contracts that they were not authorized to do.

There are no shortcuts to good golf. The better players realize this.

There are no shortcuts and no sweatless quickies.

When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts.

One thing I learned is that it's never OK to walk through a cemetery dressed as a mummy - even if that was a shortcut on the way to the costume party.

It takes time, it's a grind. There are no shortcuts. You've got to grind and grind.

There are no shortcuts to success.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's fine.

There is no shortcut to holiness; it must be the business of our whole lives.

Getting a mentor is the shortcut to success.

There is no shortcut to anyplace worth going.

There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.

If you think the cause of your problem is 'out there,' you'll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.

There's no substitute for work. There are no shortcuts. There are no secrets.

There are no shortcuts. NONE.

The timing is regretful, I guess, because what people might read into it, ... But there is no connection. We've been through tough football seasons before, and I think we just have to stay the course. We've not given up on the dream of being consistently successful. But it's difficult. We can't go out and get a bunch of junior college transfers. There are no shortcuts for us.

Traffic is up all around, and people are seeking shortcuts to avoid the congestion on highways.

There are secrets that people need to know to become successful on eBay. What I bring is that I show them the shortcuts that took me five years to learn.

We were taking shortcuts out there, got off to a terrible start defensively and really dug a hole offensively.

When we try and take shortcuts that's when we get outscored. I'd be profoundly disappointed if we (took shortcuts) again. I can't foresee that happening.

You go through processes and there are no shortcuts from year to year. Certain things have to happen. We are close.

Companies that take shortcuts with their vehicle pollution-control systems shortchange the consumer and our environment. We will hold them accountable.

Ending educational inequality is going to require systemic change and a long-term, sustained effort. There are no shortcuts and no silver bullets.

There's some emergency shortcuts if there's a life in jeopardy. Our protection of our customer information is paramount.

Surrender to alcohol intoxication provides a partial and subjective shortcut to a more correct state of mind.

I didn't know anything about it, but I think that's a sign of consistency. We go out and play hard every night, not take shortcuts and we usually don't pick up fouls. We keep guys off the line, force them to take tough shots, force them to beat you, not beat yourself.

If you take steroids, you have to pay the price. They can kill you; there are no shortcuts. It's like going to bed with a rattlesnake, it's got to get you.

It was a game we felt we had to have. We built up a big lead, and then we let them back in the ball game. We started taking shortcuts in our execution. We had too many turnovers.

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.

Its a sign of troubled times when the concept of pressure becomes an acceptable excuse for ethical shortcuts and moral shortcomings. Pressures are just temptations in disguise and its never been acceptable to give in to temptation. Ethics is about the way things ought to be, not about the way things are. When it comes to ethics, motive is very important. A person of character does the right thing for the right reason. Compliance is about what we must do; ethics is about what we should do. Ethical people often do more than the law requires and less than it allows. The area of discretion between the legal must and the moral should tests our character. Noble talk and framed ethics statements are no substitute for principled conduct. The test is doing the right thing.

I think the best shortcut is to choose really simple recipes. Because I think you can make simple recipes that are as delicious as complicated ones.

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice.

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.

Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful.

Most people don't see that they have options beyond what society tells them to do. That's the biggest problem. They honestly believe that compliance is the shortcut to success.

Things that look like shortcuts are actually detours (disguised as less work).

If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.

The funniest thing is that all the things every director goes through, I thought I could shortcut, but there was no getting around those issues.

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

I dare you to try to shortcut success! It's not going to happen! There are no shortcuts to success!

Sometimes taking time is actually a shortcut.

For both optimal health and weight loss, you must consume a diet with a high nutrient-per-calorie ratiothere are no shortcuts.

But shortcuts are dangerous; we cannot delude ourselves that our knowledge is further along than it actually is.

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.

There is no shortcut to grieving.

Everything you learn becomes a shortcut for understanding something else.

You've got to put your head down and do the work. There are no shortcuts.

The shortcut to anything you want in your life is to BE and FEEL happy now!

Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.

Chase your dreams .... but make sure you don't find shortcuts ....

Chase your dreams and don't find shortcuts...!!!

Stories are the shortcut to the heart.

I am sick of talking about What and Why I am doing. I have always believed that the WORK is the word. Action is seen less clearly through reason. There are no shortcuts to directness.

Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.

The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.

There is no shortcut to achievement.

Success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.

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

Forget about shortcuts. Instead, enjoy the wonders of your path.

You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.