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• If you take steroids, you have to pay the price. They can kill you; there are no shortcuts. It's like going to bed with a rattlesnake, it's got to get you.

  Jack LaLanne

  Pay The Price, Bed, Rattlesnakes

  Source: www.peacelovelunges.com

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• A lot of people feel like urban fantasy is a shortcut that gets you around world-building, because it's set "in the real world." But it doesn't really work that way, as I found out. You have to come up with just as consistent an internal cosmology and magic system as you would if you were writing high fantasy.

  Cassandra Clare

  Real, Writing, People

  "Author Interview: Cassandra Clare on City of Bones (Book One, The Mortal Instruments)". Interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith, cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com. March 8, 2008.

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• Just because you can make an album on a laptop computer in your back bedroom doesn't mean it's going to be any good. Like any 'product', it has to come from a good original idea. There are no shortcuts!

  Horace Panter

  Mean, Ideas, Albums

  Source: louderthanwar.com

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• Your character is your destiny. Building character is a task for the brave and dedicated. There are no shortcuts when it comes to building character. If you wish to cure minimalism in your own life, to develop a complete commitment to excellence and an absolute rejection of mediocrity, the question you need to start asking yourself is, "What is the most I can do?"

  Matthew Kelly

  Character, Commitment, Destiny

  Matthew Kelly (2004). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• In my creature impatience I am often caused to wish that there were some way to bring modern Christians into a deeper spiritual life painlessly by short, easy lessons; but such wishes are vain. No shortcut exists. God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. It is well that we accept the hard truth now: The man who would know God must give time to Him.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Spiritual, Men

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• Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.

  Saul Bellow

  Retirement, Golf, Too Much

  Saul Bellow (2009). “The Actual: A Novella”, p.38, Penguin

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• And if you can find out something about the laws of your own growth and vision as well as those of photography you may be able to relate the two, create an object that has a life of its own, which transcends craftsmanship. That is a long road, and because it must be your own road nobody can teach it to you or find it for you. There are no shortcuts, no rules.

  Paul Strand

  Photography, Law, Two

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• There are no shortcuts and no sweatless quickies.

  Jane Fonda

  Loss, Weight Loss

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• There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.

  Bill Belichick

  Team, Foundation, Bricks

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• The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore God's will and his grace.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Grace

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• The modern world’s tech-giddy control and facilitation makes us stupid.  Awareness atrophies.  Dumb gets dumber.  Lists are everywhere – the five things you need to know about so-and-so; the eight essential qualities of such-and-such; the 11 delights of somewhere or other.  We demand shortcuts, as if there are shortcuts to genuine experiences.  These lists are meaningless.

  Roger Cohen

  Stupid, Eight, Dumb

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• Impatience is a hindrance. As with all things if you attempt to take shortcuts, the final destination will rarely be as good and may even be attainable.

  Chris Bradford

  Finals, May, Impatience

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• The funniest thing is that all the things every director goes through, I thought I could shortcut, but there was no getting around those issues.

  George Clooney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Issues

  "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind - George Clooney Q&A" compiled by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

  Marco Pierre White

  People, Chef, Extremes

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• Hundreds of feet above us, cars whisked by, oblivious to our drama. Up there were the shortcuts, the excuses, the world of infinite possibilities separating man and his potential. We had four miles and the best competition in the nation. We linked hands in the boat and committed ourselves to each other.

  Stefan Kieszling

  Drama, Men, Hands

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• The shortcut to anything you want in your life is to BE and FEEL happy now!

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Want, Life Is

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Secret”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• When you give up the hope that some advisor, some system, some source of inside tips is going to give you a shortcut to wealth, you'll finally begin to gain control over your financial future.

  Harry Browne

  Giving Up, Over You, Gains

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• I think it's fascinating to note that some of the most successful organizations of our time got there by focusing obsessively on service, viewing compensation as an afterthought or a side effect. As marketing gets more and more expensive, it turns out that caring for people is a useful shortcut to trust, which leads to all the other things that a growing organization seeks.

  Seth Godin

  Successful, Caring, Thinking

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• There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.

  Ben Horowitz

  Knowing Nothing, Knowledge Gained, Conventional Wisdom

  Ben Horowitz (2014). “The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Innovation applied across the board of development is having a huge impact, and can have more. All sorts of technology can provide shortcuts, can overcome obstacles which once seemed insuperable.

  Helen Clark

  Technology, Impact, Innovation

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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

  Gratitude, Sweet, Grateful

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• Everything you learn becomes a shortcut for understanding something else.

  Scott Adams

  Understanding

  Scott Adams (2013). “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life”, p.74, Penguin

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• Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.

  Colin Wilson

  Real, Desire, Criminals

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• I think the best shortcut is to choose really simple recipes. Because I think you can make simple recipes that are as delicious as complicated ones.

  Ina Garten

  Simple, Thinking, Recipes

  "Thanksgiving With Ina Garten". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. October 11, 2011.

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• Stories are the shortcut to the heart.

  Robert G. Allen

  Heart, Stories

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