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• Surrender to alcohol intoxication provides a partial and subjective shortcut to a more correct state of mind.

  Gregory Bateson

  Alcohol, Mind, Surrender

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• Passion and persistence are what matter. Dreams are achievable and you can make your fantasy come true, but there are no shortcuts. Nothing happens without hard work.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Dream, Hard Work, Passion

  Diane von Furstenberg (2015). “The Woman I Wanted to Be”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• To become a world-class university takes a lot of time. There are simply no shortcuts. People tend to assume, and I have encountered this sort of thinking all over the world, that if they just sink enough money into a university, it will emerge in a few years as a first-class institution. But such rapid growth never happens. It takes time; it takes generations.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Thinking, Years, Class

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.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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• 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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• Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting.

  Zooey Deschanel

  People, Forever, Uniforms

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• If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Two, Want

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• [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

  Faith, Men, Thinking

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• If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day; what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane.

  John Irving

  Writing, Giving, Cooking

  John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket

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• No one knows better than I do how far heaven is, but I also know all the shortcuts. The secret is to die, when you want to, and not when He proposes. Or else to force Him to take you before your time.

  Juan Rulfo

  Heaven, Secret, Want

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• In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted, for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things -- some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labor -- who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.

  Barack Obama

  Greatness, Men, Journey

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• Tradition - one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.

  Warren Ellis

  Thinking, People, Use

  "How To Nail That Wedding Speech" by Edie Lush, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. September 06, 2016.

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• I had always turned to books, to knowledge, to help me get through everything in my life—and, sometimes, to escape it. But grief was a journey through a forest of razor blades. I walked through every painful inch of it—no shortcuts and no anesthesia.

  Michele Bardsley

  Grief, Book, Journey

  Michele Bardsley (2007). “Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire”, p.99, Penguin

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• The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and economies and common-sense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are mistakes. Learn to quash them. Constantly ask yourself, "How would I do this if I were a fool?" Throttle down your mind to a crawl. Then you will never go wrong.

  Herman Wouk

  Mistake, Common Sense, Finding Yourself

  "Herman Wouk to publish first memoir aged 100" by Claire Armitstead, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2015.

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• 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

  Moving, Long, Cooking

  Thomas Keller (2016). “The French Laundry Cookbook”, p.2, Artisan Books

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

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Clever, Hate, Hard Work

  "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality". Book by Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2010.

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• I don't think it is possible to give tips for finding one's voice; it's one of those things for which there aren't really any tricks or shortcuts, or even any advice that necessarily translates from writer to writer. All I can tell you is to write as much as possible.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Writing, Thinking, Voice

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• Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are no shortcuts; it has to be gone through.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Grief, Emotional, Long

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.143, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Leadership, Hard Work, Talking

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• 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

  Honesty, Lying, Simple

  "13th Article simple yet powerful" by Chris Morales, www.ldschurchnews.com. September 21, 2007.

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• Whether you're trying to excel in athletics or in any other field, always practice. Look, listen, learn - and practice, practice, practice. There is no substitute for work, no shortcut to the top.

  Frank Robinson

  Basketball, Practice, Trying

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• I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.

  Isabel Allende

  Believe, Book, Self

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• There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Perfection, Quests

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• Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of information. (...) Although many books define the purpose of typography as enhancing the readability of the written word, one of design’s most humane functions is, in actuality, to help readers avoid reading.

  Ellen Lupton

  Book, Reading, Offering

  Ellen Lupton (2014). “Thinking with Type”, p.87, Chronicle Books

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• Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics and that there are no easy shortcuts to success. Their companies need ethics carefully sewn into their fabric.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Needs, Fabric, Ethics

  "Corruption in Business, and the Importance of Ethics" by Vivek Wadhwa, www.linkedin.com. July 13, 2013.

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