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Short Quotes

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

Michael Morpurgo

Child Short Remember Attention Young

Only God knows why I didn't make it with the Mets, but yes, in a short period of time, I got the opportunity with the Phillies.

God Opportunity Time Short Why Yes

I like kindness. Who doesn't? Life is definitely too short for self-centered, abusive people.

Life Kindness People Short Who Like

A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run.

Francis Collins

Short Long Consequences Run Always

We're very much focused on full shareholder-value return. We have to get our stock moving. But I won't do something in the short run that I don't feel is right for the long run. That, I've watched many CEOs do.

John T. Chambers

Moving Short Feel Long Focused Run

The short story is an imploding universe. It has all the boil of energy inside it. A novel has shrapnel going all over the place. You can have a mistake in a novel. A short story has to be perfect.

Mistake Energy Story Universe Short

If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.

Kumail Nanjiani

Short You Sketch Narrative Very

Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career - which is very short.

Time Short You Career Nothing Very

When I first met Antonin Scalia, I was a small child with one brown ponytail atop my head. Which is odd, because I was a full-grown woman, and my hair was short and blond. Still, sitting on the black leather sofa in his chambers, I remember shrinking.

Woman Child Hair Small Black Short

The trouble with records is that they're too short.

Mahalia Jackson

Short Trouble Records Too

There are jerks all over Washington. Life is short; being a jerk is just unnecessary.

Life Life Is Short Short Washington

Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.

Practice Game Short Enough Fall Out

My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.

Short Career Skin Bear Brothers

CompUSA was a bad decision. We stayed too much with CompUSA, and we stayed too short with Apple.

Decision Short Bad Apple Too Much

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

Life Thinking Short Sitting Anything

I think everybody is always selling me short, and then I always prove them wrong.

Me Think Short Selling Wrong Prove

Technologies simmer along before they are feasible. That simmer can be short or long, but then they get traction. And from there to being huge is a couple of decades.

Short Long Being Along Get Decades

It is important for the musician to learn as much about the composer as possible and to study the music he has written. Then, even a short piece by Brahms or Chopin can be played with much more understanding.

Vladimir Horowitz

Music Short Learn Understanding More

I do just as much world-building in a short story as I do for a novel.

Story Short Just Much Short Story

I don't just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don't get to do it all the time, so short films are a really great way to be doing it and working with your friends, working on smaller, more specific things without limiting yourself in other ways.

Mackenzie Davis

Great Time Yourself Short Doing Way

I never wanted to play the short game.

Game Short Play Never Wanted

I'd like to think I've left something in the world. Without in any way trying to be morbid, but life is very short, and I'd like to think I'd leave some body of work that would inspire other musicians long after I've gone.

Life Work World Inspire Think Short

A normal day of working in Burbank is 14 hours, sometimes more. On 'The Revenant' sometimes it was eight hours, but we were shooting only five. So they were short days, but they were very strenuous because of the weather. And it was very dark.

Emmanuel Lubezki

Day Weather Short Dark Sometimes

It wasn't until I started to read short stories - by people like Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, John Updike... Eudora Welty - that I became excited about the possibilities of writing.

People Writing Short Possibilities

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