James Dean
Actor
"Remember: Life is short, break the rules"
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Life Is Too Short
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Zig Ziglar
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise."
Zig Ziglar
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people."
Bruce Dickinson
Musician, Author, Pilot
"Life is too short to do the things you don't love doing."
Thomas Huxley
Biologist, Anthropologist
"Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once."
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"Life is too short for long-term grudges."
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"Life is too short to read a bad book."
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"Life is too short to drink bad wine."
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"If you want to be rich, be friends with people who have the same mindset as you, or who at least won't try to change your mindset to be more like theirs. Life is too short to spend time with people who don't help you move forward."
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"Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little"."
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"Remember my friend to enjoy your planning as well as your accomplishment, for life is too short for negative energy."
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"Life is too short to worry about anything"
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"Life is too short to be taken seriously."
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"Life is too short. I only want to do things that I enjoy, or that I think are good or worth doing."
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"Your job, as an actor, is never to just do what you're told. That's boring, and life is too short. It's your job to bring something, and it will either be to other people's taste or your own taste, and you have to try things out. Actors say, "Well, as long as the director's happy," but I don't believe that and I don't agree with that. I want the director to be happy, but if I'm not happy, I won't sleep at night."
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"... life is too short to do the whole."
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"Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing."
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"Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour."
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"The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others."
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"Don't let your cool stand in the way of being soulful. Life is too short. Too short to hate. Too short to judge. Too short not to live for. Don't let anything or anyone get the best of you or your heart and mind. If you are going down... go down swinging, singing, and loving."
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"Life is short, break the rules."
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"I no longer have time for unnecessary drama. I wasted so much time scared, self-conscious and insecure. Life is too short to stress the small things anymore."
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"Life is too short to be miserable."
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"Life is too short to be in a hurry."
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"Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh..apologiz e..let go of what you can't change."
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