Short Quotes
Collections of some of the best short quotes of all time
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‘Dig the well before you are thirsty”
Old Proverb
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“Be yourself - everyone else is taken.”
- Anonymous.
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“If you want to have a long career then you must first and
foremost love process. All else should pale in front of the
love of what you are doing as you make your work.”
- Elizabeth Hoff
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“Playing it safe is the most popular way to fail.”
- Elliott Smith
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Make Things Happen: Bill Callahan
“The bottle gives birth to the cup.”
- Bill Callahan
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“He…retained the kind of understanding of the main qualification required to remain in (the ranks of comic heroes) that often eludes the less bright. It has little to do with art or ambition. It simply demands a readiness to be seen over and over again in the same situations, wearing the same masks…never let the goodwill slip through your fingers.”
- Article on Clark, comic book artist
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“As I grow older I find that though I think I’m saying the same things as I always did, people listen to me more.”
- Peter Ustinov
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“No man, for any considerable time, can show one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally becoming bewildered as to which may be the true on.”
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic.”
- Goethe
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“Humans are satisfied with whatever looks good;
Heaven probes for what is good.”
- Biblical Proverb
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“There ain’t no easy way out”
- Tom Petty
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“The diligent find freedom in their work;
the lazy are opressed by work.”
- Biblical proverb
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“Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.”
- Emerson
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On Following Your Heart and Intuition
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.”
- Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computers
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“I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.”
- Steve Jobs
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“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
- Steve Jobs
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“It is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something living, something that changes each day.”
- Philip Guston
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“To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.”
- Theophile Gautier
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