100 Shortcut Quotes

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Famous Shortcut Quotes

Shortcuts often turn into very time-consuming routes. — Swedish Proverbs

There are no shortcuts. The fact that a shortcut is important to you means that you are a pussy. — Mark Rippetoe

Simplify, then add lightness. — Colin Chapman

The shorter and the plainer the better. — Beatrix Potter

A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures. — Ben Shneiderman

Try to reach for a simple, visual phrase that tells you what the picture is all about and evokes the essence of the story — Saul Bass

A lot of people want a shortcut. I find the best shortcut is the long way, which is basically two words: work hard. — Randy Pausch

The longest way around is the shortest way home — Irish Proverbs

Get maximum effect from minimum effort. — Bruce Lee

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. - Beverly Sills

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. — Beverly Sills

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. - Denis Diderot

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. — Denis Diderot

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life. — Victor Hugo

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. — Hosea Ballou

A short saying often contains much wisdom. — Sophocles

In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs — Friedrich Nietzsche

Short Shortcut Quotes

  • You don't always get the waterfall shortcut in Mario Kart. That's life. — Jack Barakat
  • There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick. — Bill Belichick
  • There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. — Vicki Baum
  • Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty — Jordan Belfort
  • There are no shortcuts, no luck. — Tim Grover
  • Train hard and stay focused: there are no shortcuts to success in fighting or any other sport. — Joe Rogan
  • Marketing isn’t about shortcuts; it’s about the slow, steady, and consistent effort. — Rand Fishkin
  • If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life. — Michael Jordan
  • There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned. — Harrison Salisbury
  • The guys who take shortcuts, who aren't ready, they fail when their opportunity comes — Tom Thibodeau

Shortcut Image Quotes

Shortcut quote A smile is the shortest distance between two people.
A smile is the shortest distance between two people.

No Shortcuts Quotes

There are no shortcuts. If you feel good, you'll look good, you'll play good. Work hard every day. No matter what your strengths and weaknesses, there's no substitute for hard work. — Hope Solo

Even great talent could not launch a brand from zero. A brand must have a heritage; there are no shortcuts. — Bernard Arnault

You've got to be centered on Christ. It's a work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit forms Jesus within us. No cross? No crown. No pain? No gain. No way around it - if there was a shortcut, I'd know it and I'd tell ya. — John Corapi

Shortcut quote There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts. — Larry L. King

No shortcuts exist to the top of a palm tree. — African Proverbs

I think my secret is that there's no shortcuts for hard work, determination and having that don't give up attitude. — Jerry Rice

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

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

I am an organizer, not a union leader. A good organizer has to work hard and long. There are no shortcuts. You just keep talking to people, working with them, sharing, exchanging and they come along. — Cesar Chavez

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

There Is No Shortcut Quotes

In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor... Being true is different than being honest. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Practice is important. The regular season is important. Your meetings are important. Your walk-through is important. Everything is important. You want to be a championship team, there's a price to pay. And that's what you have to do. There's no shortcuts. You can't shortcut your way to success. — Tom Thibodeau

The very desire to find shortcuts makes you eminently unsuited for any kind of mastery. There is no possible reversal to this process. — Robert Greene

Gratitude is one of the sweet shortcuts to finding peace of mind and happiness inside. No matter what is going on outside of us, there's always something we could be grateful for. — Barry Neil Kaufman

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

There is no shortcut to anyplace worth going. — Beverly Sills

There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

There's this unspoken history that exists between any mother and daughter, no matter how deep and loving the bond is, twenty-five years of being raised by someone, there's a kind of deep history which means that there are shortcuts to getting on each other's nerves. — Stephen Karam

In the end, raising money is basically a matter of going out there and asking. There are no shortcuts. — Georgette Mosbacher

I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty. — Paul Bremer

Work Shortcut Quotes

Be honest and work hard to get what you want. Don't take shortcuts; you only cheat yourself in the long run. Success is not measured by money or fame, but by how you feel about your own goals and accomplishments and the time and effort you put into them. — Willie Stargell

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

We all naturally want to become successful... we also want to take shortcuts. And it's easy to do so, but you can never take away the effort of hard work and discipline and sacrifice. — Apolo Ohno

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

Perhaps because the challenges we face in our country are so daunting, we are also tempted by shortcuts. We tell ourselves that if we invent a new acronym, or write a new empowerment charter, we can avoid some of the back-breaking work that sustained progress requires — Helen Zille

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. — Richard Lugar

It's all just venom to the soul and symptomatic of a larger issue: the idea of the shortcut. The result without the fight. The fight is the thing. The work. — Daniel Gillies

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

Do the work. Out-work. Out-think. Out-sell your expectations. There are no shortcuts. — Mark Cuban

I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about! — Eliezer Yudkowsky

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More Shortcut Quotes

Knowledge is a skyscraper. You can take a shortcut with a fragile foundation of memorization, or build slowly upon a steel frame of understanding. — Naval Ravikant

People are always asking me about the secrets and tricks I use to get results. Sorry if this disappoints you: There are no secrets. There are no tricks. If anything, it’s the opposite: Whether you’re a pro athlete or a guy running a business or driving a truck or going to school, it’s simple. Ask yourself where you are now, and where you want to be instead. Ask yourself what you’re willing to do to get there. Then make a plan to get there. Act on it. There are no shortcuts. — Tim Grover

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

We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square. — Michelle Obama

Cooking is not about convenience and it's not about shortcuts. Our hunger for the twenty-minute gourmet meal, for one-pot ease and prewashed, precut ingredients has severed our lifeline to the satisfactions of cooking. Take your time. Take a long time. Move slowly and deliberately and with great attention. — Thomas Keller

The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually. — Martin Seligman

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. — Daniel Kahneman

The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to the building of an economic giant. — Kim Jong-un

Today's comics use four-letter words as a shortcut to thinking. They're shooting for that big laugh and it becomes a panic thing, using four-letter words to shock people. — Red Skelton

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

Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too. — Michael Jordan

In my opinion, animation is best when it communicates without words, because it is the perfect medium through which to make shortcuts to meaning. When actors are not talking, just acting out, it looks kind of weird. But in animation, mime is constant, and you accept it. — Signe Baumane

There are no shortcuts. Be patient and look long-term. It's a foolish idea that if you do a little more, faster, then you'll get better than the rest. It ignores the fact that you must train at your optimal level, not your maximum level. Consistency is the secret to improvement and success. You have to keep training when others lose interest. — Robert de Castella

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

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

A shortcut is the longest distance between two points. — Charles Issawi

Mentors do not give you a shortcut, but they streamline the process. They invariably had their own great mentors, giving them a richer and deeper knowledge of their field. — Robert Greene

[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop. — C. S. Lewis

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