When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. — Mary Kay Ash
We often get in quicker by the back door than by the front. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Take the back roads instead of the highways. — Minnie Pearl
Rather then focusing on the obstacle in your path, focus on the bridge over the obstacle. — Mary Lou Retton
To overcome a desperate situation, make a complete turn in one sudden burst. — Japanese Proverbs
Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. — Mandy Hale
Shortcuts often turn into very time-consuming routes. — Swedish Proverbs
Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze. — Barbara Sher
When you come across with a problem in your life, do not always try to solve it; make a long jump like a kangaroo and continue your way! Sometimes problems must be leaped over without touching them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not. — Liz Murray
The longest way around is the shortest way home — Irish Proverbs
I don't live in the fast lane I live on the off ramp. — Fred Shero
If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way. — Fran Drescher
Often what may appear as a detour in life is actually the most direct and empowering path to your destination. — James Arthur Ray
Short Bypass Quotes
Social engineering bypasses all technologies, including firewalls. — Kevin Mitnick
Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass. — Mary Blakely
At my age an affair of the heart is a bypass! — Joan Rivers
I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity. — Tom Lehrer
Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul. — Mignon McLaughlin
The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. — Jerzy Kosinski
Go into emptiness, strike voids, bypass what he defends hit him where he does not expect you. — Sun Tzu
I feel great. I had a triple bypass in 1976 and a quadruple bypass in 1984. — Jimmy Piersall
Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it. — Dick Cavett
If you try to live that which is past, that which IS will bypass you. — Jaggi Vasudev
Heart Bypass Quotes
All truth is given by revelation, either general or special, and it must be received by reason. Reason is the God-given means for discovering the truth that God discloses, whether in his world or his Word. While God wants to reach the heart with truth, he does not bypass the mind. — Jonathan Edwards
Fifteen years ago tomorrow I had open heart surgery, a quintuple bypass surgery. Thanks to all of my doctors. Because of them, in 15 years of life I've been able to experience, well, acid reflux, short-term memory loss, and erectile dysfunction. Thanks for all your work. It's great to be alive. — David Letterman
I think I got turned onto The Beach Boys for the first time with the 'Endless Summer' album in 1974. The power of that music still, to this day, bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. You don't have to think about it; it's something that you feel. — John Stamos
Communion with God does not imply turning off your mind but turning it on - to be renewed in our minds. We're to love God with all our mind as well as heart. So true communion with God empowers hard work with the Bible, rather than bypassing work in favor of pure passivity. — Vern Poythress
Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles. — P. J. O'Rourke
The morning after I had my heart bypass, the doctor called and said, Soon you'll be able to have sex. I said, I've heard that for years. — David Letterman
While I was gone, I had quintuple bypass surgery on my heart. Plus, I got a haircut. — David Letterman
I'd always admired writers. I'd always loved words on a page. Somehow, words seemed to bypass image and get straight to the heart of things. Somehow, words seemed big enough to contain pain, and sentences could pull broken bits together. — Rosie O'Donnell
Her heart pounded as [Cam's] lips bypassed hers and came to a stop, whispering in her ear: 'Don't let him flip you off next time. — Lauren Kate
Nature holds the beautiful, for the artist who has the insight to extract it. Thus, beauty lies even in humble, perhaps ugly things, and the ideal, which bypasses or improves on nature, may not be truly beautiful in the end. — Albrecht Durer
Lifestyle change and changes in diet work faster, better and more cheaply than any medication and are as effective or more effective than gastric bypass without any side effects or long-term complications. — Mark Hyman, M.D.
The ideal situation would be to bypass all of the drama and mayhem and just get the music right to the people. I'm confident that we'll eventually figure it out. — Debbie Gibson
I’m not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It’s a fundamental character flaw, possibly a sign of true evil. — Jonathan Maberry
America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be. — A. A. Gill
For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects. — Gene Roddenberry
Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me. — Edna O'Brien
What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether. — Jeremy Rifkin
All who affirm the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. But peace and justice are nonviolence...the final end of history. Those who abandon nonviolence have no sense of history. Rathy they are bypassing history, freezing history, betraying history. — Andre Trocme
Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics. — Mark Hyman, M.D.
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the true nature of things by seeing through the illusory nature of things. We don't come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don't come to clarity by avoiding confusion. — Adyashanti
It would be bypassing the issue to say that the artist's business is to work with this and that material or manipulate the findings of perceptual psychology, and that the rest should be left to other professions. — Hans Haacke
Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain. — Steven Bochco
The internet seems to be what a lot of independent bands are doing these days. They're bypassing the studio - the big studios, EMI and all the record companies - and just doing it themselves, online, selling their stuff, getting known through that medium. — David Gilmour
The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets. — Robert Shea
Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything. — Ornette Coleman
Saying that I am talking out of both sides of my mouth just proves my very point. Politicians would bypass real social issues by referring to my grandfather, who founded the Muslim Brotherhood, or to my brother, currently chairman of the Islamic Centre in Geneva. — Tariq Ramadan
If Thou canst do something with us and through us, then please, God, do something without us! Bypass us and take up a people who now know Thee not! — Leonard Ravenhill
No short-cut that tries to bypass the patient unfolding of the true character of God, and our relationship to him as his children, can ever succeed in providing long-term spiritual therapy. — Sinclair B. Ferguson
It was a very difficult time. I was working on [umble-Ardy] when my partner and friend was dying of cancer. We set up a room in the house to be like a hospital room. Eugene died, and then I had bypass surgery. I was doing the book to stay sane while all this was going on. — Maurice Sendak
I love England. In fact, they're getting to know me so well at Heathrow Immigration that this time I was able to completely bypass the six months rabies quarantine. — Emo Philips
Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual mind. — Wes Nisker
When leaders claim that God bypasses their followers and speaks directly to them, they greatly diminish all God does through the lives of believers.Leaders who begrudge people the opportunity to seek God themselves and who do not actively teach their people how to hear God's voice have disqualified themselves as spiritual leaders. — Henry Blackaby
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say: meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it, and had better be on speaking terms with it. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh. At the same time, you have people in the hospital who have had gastric bypass or lap-band surgery and they still have to work out. If you don't work out and eat healthy, you'll look like a melted candle. — Richard Simmons
First you have to witness that you are stressing out: Oh, my trigger is here. The news is stressing me out or This line is so long. Let yourself feel it. You don't want to spiritually bypass these problems. Give yourself a couple of minutes to sit in the feeling. Acceptance sets you free from the stress of expectation. — Gabrielle Bernstein
Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner, bypassed the debate before the Iowa caucuses because he objected to the participation of moderator Megyn Kelly as well a press release defending her.Beyond the Trump tantrum, we wondered if this had something bigger to say about the state of the media and politics and how politics is practiced today. — Michel Martin
There is a difference between creating something and just capturing something. And when we were using film, it was not that fast, and it was expensive, so there was incentive to make sure the shot was exactly right before we rolled. With digital, it's fast and its cheap, and it's easy to bypass the rest. — Vilmos Zsigmond
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed to guard the gates themselves. — Tom Lantos
Many people bypass search engines altogether and still find what they're looking for online. These Internet surfers are using direct navigation. — Marc Ostrofsky
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