Short Circuit Quotes

• If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.

  Bruce Jenner

  Sports, Reading, Eye

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I worked 18 years to become an overnight success. Now MagicPlace.com will short circuit that process for people.

  Criss Angel

  Years, People, Process

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• I don't know about you, but I call impromptu vomiting harm.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Atheist, Sin City, Waking Life

  Karen Marie Moning (2006). “Darkfever: Fever Series”, p.82, Delacorte Press

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• I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.

  Barbara Walters

  Atheist, Equal Pay, Sin City

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• I am a firm believer that the Lord sometimes has to short-circuit even our best plans for our benefit.

  Tony Dungy

  Benefits, Sometimes, Lord

  Tony Dungy (2007). “Quiet Strength: A Memoir”, p.111, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition.

  Arthur Koestler

  Intuition, Moments, Insight

  Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Death, Mother Night

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Man's quest for knowledge is an expanding series whose limit is infinity, but philosophy seeks to attain that limit at one blow, by a short circuit providing the certainty of complete and inalterable truth. Science meanwhile advances at its gradual pace, often slowing to a crawl, and for periods it even walks in place, but eventually it reaches the various ultimate trenches dug by philosophical thought, and, quite heedless of the fact that it is not supposed to be able to cross those final barriers to the intellect, goes right on.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Men

  Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sellars's "myth of Jones" is deployed against what Sellars calls "the myth of the categorial Given": the idea that to be aware of something is to be aware of it as something. This short circuit between "awareness of" and "awareness as" inhibits the project of self-understanding because it perpetuates the assumption that there is a point where being and knowing coincide.

  Ray Brassier

  Assumption, Awareness, Myth

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• As long as you pretend to be self-sufficient, you short-circuit God's power in your life. You need to admit your inadequacy and say, "God, I can't handle this!"

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Self, Long

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• [A dramatic increase in regulation under the Obama administration is] threatening to short-circuit our recovery and undermine our long-term growth....More importantly , it is suffocating the entrepreneurial spirit so vital to America's success.

  Tom J. Donohue

  Recovery, America, Long

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• The cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God's wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Wrath, Light, Grace

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• Abuse manipulates and twists a child's natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can't afford to feel the full range of feelings in her body while she's being abused-pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, arousal. So she short-circuits them and goes numb. For many children, any expression of feelings, even a single tear, is cause for more severe abuse. Again, the only recourse is to shut down. Feelings go underground.

  Laura Davies

  Children, Pain, Hate

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• Being young and trying to catch a glimpse of the depths, of the true self, of the soul, or whatever human beings have called it over the centuries, we often find ourselves surrounded by bossy, hectoring voices trying to short-circuit our personal experience by super-imposing their own disappointments. Much of this bossiness masquerades as an education.

  David Whyte

  Inspirational, Disappointment, Self

  David Whyte (2009). “The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship”, p.59, Penguin

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• The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind

  Ayn Rand

  Cutting, Mind, Religion

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.174, Penguin

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• To look for a job before looking deeply inward is likely to short-circuit the process of finding your calling.

  Dan Miller

  Jobs, Inward, Looks

  Dan Miller (2010). “48 Days to the Work You Love”, p.74, B&H Publishing Group

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• It is not enough to wire the world if you short-circuit the soul. Technology without heart is not enough.

  Tom Brokaw

  Heart, Technology, Soul

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• It doesn't do any good to wire the world if we short circuit the soul.

  Tom Brokaw

  Soul, Wire, World

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• The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.

  Ken Venturi

  Golf, Two, Brain

  "The Masters 2011 - the final day, as it happened" by Scott Murray, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2011.

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• The very act of accepting responsibility short-circuits and cancels out any negative emotions you may be experiencing.

  Brian Tracy

  Responsibility, Negative, May

  Brian Tracy (2010). “Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want -- Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible”, p.21, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Donald Trump can say hey, did she [Hillary Clinton] short-circuit when she reset the relationship with Vladimir Putin and now Russia is, according to "The New York Times" article today, Russia is in control in Syria?

  Rudy Giuliani

  New York, Russia, Hey

  "'This Week' Transcript: Rudy Giuliani and Michael Morell". abcnews.go.com. August 7, 2016.

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• Did Hillary Clinton short-circuit when she advocated for the overthrow of Muamar Gaddafi and Libya is now an Islamic State stranglehold?

  Rudy Giuliani

  Islamic, Gaddafi, Clinton

  "'This Week' Transcript: Rudy Giuliani and Michael Morell". abcnews.go.com. August 7, 2016.

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• Love requited is a short circuit.

  Samuel Beckett

  Love, Affection, Circuits

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• A whole roomful of Jews is like a charged battery. The vitality sparks seem to fly, and frequently the result is a short circuit.

  Edna Ferber

  Vitality, Batteries, Sparks

  Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”

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• Detach the writer from the milieu where he has experienced his greatest sense of belonging, and you have created a discontinuity within his personality, a short circuit in his identity. The result is his originality, his creativity comes to an end. He becomes the one-book novelist or the one-trilogy writer.

  Henry Roth

  Book, Creativity, Personality

  1987 'The Eternal Plebeian and Other Matters', in Shifting Landscape.

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