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 can never get enough David Letterman.

  Barbara Walters

  Atheist, Equal Pay, Sin City

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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 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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• It will do us little good to wire the world if we limit our vision. It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circuit our souls.

  Tom Brokaw

  Soul, Vision, Wire

  Emory University Commencement Address, delivered 16 May 2005

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• I turned down Short Circuit 2 too and I now wish I hadn't. Sequels are a lot of fun and you get to hang out with all your friends.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Fun, Wish, Turned Down

  "Steve Guttenberg to Return in Police Academy 8 and Three Men and a Bride" by B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com.

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• If Jesus can live in you and you are no different than the world around you, something got short circuited because Jesus makes a difference.

  David Jeremiah

  Christian, Jesus, Differences

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• Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie before the novel has even come out or been finished. It's a function of this hyper-accelerated society we live in, where everyone is trying to short circuit the process.

  Howard Gordon

  Writing, Eye, People

  "Exclusive: Howard Gordon Talks About His New Series HOMELAND and AWAKE, Plus Progress on the 24 Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 2, 2011.

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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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• 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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• The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes, or short-circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness. The diver vanishes at one end of the chain and comes up at the other end, guided by invisible links.

  Arthur Koestler

  Giving, Intuition, Links

  Arthur Koestler (1969). “The Act of Creation”

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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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• 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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• You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Strong, Attachment

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• What's exciting about using our mind is that we can short circuit all the excuses thrown up by our fears.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mind

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• Traditional dinosaur theory is full of short circuits. Like the antiquated wiring in an old house, the details sputter and burn out when specific parts are tested.

  Robert T. Bakker

  Science, House, Details

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• It takes the same energy to complain as it does to compliment. When there is a short circuit, there is a complaint, and when the energy is flowing, there is a compliment.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Spiritual, Energy, Doe

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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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• 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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• 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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