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• We made plenty of mistakes, but we never tripped anybody to gain an advantage, or took illegal shortcuts when no judge was around. We have all jogged and panted it out the whole way.

  Wallace Stegner

  Mistake, Judging, Way

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.12, Modern Library

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• There is no shortcut to achievement.

  George Washington Carver

  Persistence, Achievement

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• We also use our imagination and take shortcuts to fill gaps in patterns of nonvisual data. As with visual input, we draw conclusions and make judgments based on uncertain and incomplete information, and we conclude, when we are done analyzing the patterns, that out picture is clear and accurate. But is it?

  Leonard Mlodinow

  Data, Imagination, Patterns

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

  Eric Thomas

  Trying, Dare, Happens

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• We have seen some of the greatest athletes fall because they have tried to take shortcuts. I'm not going to call any names but we talk about guys that was like at the top of their game that people just idolized. They looked in awe and all of a sudden you see them just come tumbling down because they want to take shortcuts. I think it's more rewarding when you do it the old fashioned way.

  Jerry Rice

  Fall, Athlete, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• 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

  Success, Determination, Hard Work

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• We weren't trying to just go public and get rich. There was no near-term thing. It always was this many-decades thing where there were no shortcuts and we'd sort of put one foot in front of the other.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Feet, Trying

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• 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

  Basketball, Running, Hard Work

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

  Mark Rippetoe

  Workout, Mean, Bad Ass

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

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Dream, Chase Your Dreams, Your Dreams

  Sachin Tendulkar (2017). “Chase Your Dreams: My Autobiography”, Hachette UK

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

  Rachel Maddow

  Cities, Needs, Reset

  "Rachel Maddow & Susan Mikula At Home In Massachusetts" By Danny Shea, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2010.

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• The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.

  Dale Carnegie

  Speak, Distinction, Ability

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• 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.

  Byron Katie

  Thinking, Trying, Causes

  Twitter post from Dec 04, 2013

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

  Julian Baggini

  Feelings, Vices, Wonderful

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• There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Maturity

  Erwin W. Lutzer (2015). “Failure: the Back Door to Success”, p.96, Moody Publishers

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• Never, however, do I take shortcuts. There is not path of least resistance in my training. What I do equates to hard manual labor, disciplined grunt work. Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself. You might be able to fool some people, but you can never fool yourself. Your toughest critic is the one you face every morning in the mirror.

  Dean Karnazes

  Morning, Mirrors, People

  Dean Karnazes (2012). “Run!: 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss”, p.98, Rodale

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• If you read the stories of the great spiritual teachers of the past, we find that they have attained spiritual realization through a great deal of meditation, solitude and practice. They did not take any shortcuts.

  Rajiv Mehrotra

  Spiritual, Teacher, Past

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• Love is the shortcut to meditation. Above thought is love, and within and below thought is love. Love is a ladder that we can climb through thought.

  Frederick Lenz

  Love Is, Meditation, Ladders

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• Don't take shortcuts; if I want to be true to my beliefs, then shortcuts do not exist.

  DeVon Franklin

  Want, Belief, Being True

  DeVon Franklin (2011). “Produced by Faith: Enjoy Real Success without Losing Your True Self”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Learning a new thing is a shortcut to joy and informs your area of mastery.

  Sara Genn

  Joy, Mastery, Enthusiasm

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• You are saved, not because of what you do, but because of what Christ did. And you are special, not because of what you do, but because of whose you are. And you are his. And because we are his, let's forget the shortcuts and stay on the main road. He knows the way. He drew the map. He knows the way home.

  Max Lucado

  Home, Special, Maps

  Max Lucado (2011). “The Lucado Inspirational Reader: Hope and Encouragement for Your Everyday Life”, p.372, Thomas Nelson

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• 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

  Exercise, People, Joy

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.16, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• The one thing in life you can control is your effort. Are there any shortcuts in the beauty business? No. That was the first lesson I learned. You can't just rocket to the top.

  Mark Cuban

  Things In Life, Effort, Lessons

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• In life, there are no shortcuts to joy. Anything that is worth pursuing requires us to suffer just a little bit.

  Chris Burkard

  Joy, Suffering, Littles

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• Shortcuts aren't always.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Teaching, Learning, Accepting Reality

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