Quotes About Cutting Corners

#1. As more money flowed through Washington and as Washington's power to regulate our lives grew, opportunities and temptations for graft, influence peddling and cutting corners grew exponentially. Power breeds corruption.

Steve Forbes

#2. Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.

Bernard Malamud

#3. He who chooses to be a master never does 'just enough' to get by - nor does he cut corners or attempt to cheat the system. He who chooses mastery lives his life asking, 'How can I do more, give more, be more, and thereby accelerate the achievement of my ultimate destiny?

James Arthur Ray

#4. Success is not necessarily about connections, or cutting corners, or chamba - the three Cs of bad business. Call it trite, but believe me: success can be achieved through hard work, frugality, integrity, responsiveness to change, and most of all, boldness to dream.

John Gokongwei

#5. The people who know me, the people who see the passion I have for this game and the respect for it, they know that I don't cut any corners in the way I approach golf.

Vijay Singh

#6. Oftentimes, people start with something, whatever it is, and it's great, but over the years, it loses its focus or way and corners get cut. Some people are fine with that, but I'm not.

Zachary Levi

#7. If you cut corners you just keep on going in circles.

Grant Stoelwinder

#8. What's frustrating more than anything is when chefs start to cut corners and believe that they are incognito in the way they send out appetizers, entrees, and they know it's not 100 percent, but they think the customers can't spot it.

Gordon Ramsay

#9. Broken lines do not know what they want. With their caprices they cut time up, abuse routes, slash the joyous flowers and split the peaceful fruits with their corners.

Rene Crevel

#10. When your best player puts it on the line every day, the other guys can't cut corners

George Karl

#11. What are you doing here?" she demands.
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I want to touch you. I want to curl into bed beside you and see if you can teach me to dream something that wont make me wake up screaming.

Stacey Jay

#12. On the straight and narrow path, there are simply no corners to be cut.

Neal A. Maxwell

#13. So Jace is my actual family," Kit said. "But I can't go live with him, because him and his hot girlfriend are going off on some sort of secret mission."
"Guess you Herondales have a type," Julian muttered.

Cassandra Clare

#14. Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?

Walker Percy

#15. There is little opiate delusion in Jesus's grim warning to his comrades that if they were true to his Gospel of love and justice, they would meet the same sticky end as him. The measure of your love in his view is whether they kill you or not.

Terry Eagleton

#16. If you're going around in circles, maybe you're cutting corners.

James Patterson

#17. Young people understand that you don't have to wear or eat animals. I get that it can be cheaper to use animal products - but using animals really cuts corners.

Pamela Anderson

#18. Interspersed in lawn and opening glades,
Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.

Alexander Pope

#19. I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives. But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.

Alan Greenspan

#20. Even if you have constrained resources, don't cut corners. People will feel it.

Tony Fadell

#21. Through the imparting of moral principles, good behaviour, and education we must make the Chandala come up to the level of the Brahmana.

Swami Vivekananda

#22. If you find yourself cutting corners, go in a circle instead

Benny Bellamacina

#23. We're cutting corners, maximizing short-term profits

James Redfield

#24. My doors enter from the sidestreet,
my windows painted basement black,
my mouth kisses the blues harp,
my heart hides like notes
locked in a cedar chest.

Yusef Komunyakaa

#25. Success is the result of hard work, busting your ass every day for years on end without cutting corners or taking shortcuts.

Ronda Rousey

#26. Read, listen to and watch everything you can. Explore the corners of popular culture and the arts. And, of course, these days you have to stay maniacally plugged in to the cutting edge of whatever technology is taking your profession into the future - otherwise you're toast.

Tom Freston

#27. Allow your dream to start from the lowest level, let it develop and let it grow in a reasonable pace because there is no room for cutting corners.

Euginia Herlihy

#28. I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I'd never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners.

John Fogerty