Byron Katie
Author, Speaker
"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."
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Daniel Kahneman
Psychologist, Nobel Laureate
"By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones."
Michelle Obama
Lawyer, Author, First Lady
"Success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square."
Harrison Salisbury
Journalist
"There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned."
DeVon Franklin
Producer, Author
"Don't take shortcuts; if I want to be true to my beliefs, then shortcuts do not exist."
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"It takes time, it's a grind. There are no shortcuts. You've got to grind and grind."
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"Things that look like shortcuts are actually detours (disguised as less work)."
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"You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut."
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"Forget about shortcuts. Instead, enjoy the wonders of your path."
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"Sometimes taking time is actually a shortcut."
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"I've found that taking shortcuts will get you to the place you don't want to be much quicker than they get u to the place u want to be."
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"You've got to put your head down and do the work. There are no shortcuts."
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"There are no shortcuts. NONE."
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"There is no shortcut to achievement."
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"There is no fast, easy shortcut for the word abbreviation."
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"The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction."
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"Everything you learn becomes a shortcut for understanding something else."
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"The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be."
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"One thing I learned is that it's never OK to walk through a cemetery dressed as a mummy - even if that was a shortcut on the way to the costume party."
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"Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful."
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"Most people don't see that they have options beyond what society tells them to do. That's the biggest problem. They honestly believe that compliance is the shortcut to success."
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"Shortcuts aren't always."
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"Flirting is a cheap, dangerous shortcut to get something you can't hold after you get it."
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"Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it."
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