#short

If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out. ↗

— Alberto Juantorena

#athletes #because #burnt #calendar #career

The advice that I can give anyone wanting to be in the biz: do all the work, learn your craft. There are no shortcuts. If you stay with it, you will get an opportunity. ↗

— Christopher Judge

#anyone #craft #get #give #i

From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#glorifying #goes #past #short #step

Carl Yastrzemski was the best all-around player. He could run, throw and hit. He had the ability to play a number of different positions. He signed as a shortstop. He could play the outfield, of course, and third base and first, too. He was a tremendous athlete. Mickey Mantle was unbelievable, too. ↗

— Al Kaline

#all-around #athlete #base #best #carl

Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#almost #aware #christopher #college #comedian

Twitter is so short, it's safe. I don't want my bosses to be like, 'Hey, your script is due and we saw you wrote four blog pages.' ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#bosses #due #four #hey #i

But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten. ↗

— Gil Kane

#big #big mouth #develop #harry #i

Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems. ↗

— Gil Kane

#became #other #paper #problem #problems

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

#around #aware #i #lot #must

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials. ↗

— Ronald Knox

#cover #enough #essentials #good #interest