When you explain to people what you’re trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it’s just for that short time you’re on the phone. – Simon Sinek
The short version is I’m just a total Apple fanboy. I started programming Apples in seventh grade. – Steve Jurvetson
I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film. – Todd Barry
I try not to write jokes that are mean. I try my best to write jokes that are pretty universal and jokes that don’t attack anyone. I know I often fall short of that and end up taking unfair swipes at people, but I try not to. – Simon Rich
I stopped writing short fiction early on – I was never really good at it, and I never liked the results. So I stopped trying to fit the material I was working with into these tidy little short fiction packages. – Susan Choi
I have only read very classic traditional English ghost stories, other than Henry James, who wrote some magnificent short ones as well as the longer ‘Turn of the Screw.’ He, Dickens, and M.R. James are my influences. – Susan Hill
I basically apply with my teams the lean startup principles I used in the private sector – go into Silicon Valley mode, work at startup speed, and attack, doing things in short amounts of time with extremely limited resources. – Todd Park
My colleague Bill Keegan has written a very short book (‘Saving the World?’) on an unlikely topic – he is the first economist to try to rehabilitate Gordon Brown. – Simon Hoggart
There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers. – Steven Levy
I wasn’t sure of the exact mindset you should have when you go into a Test match. So I probably became too defensive when I played my first Test match. Short balls in one-day cricket, I have never thought of just defending. – Virat Kohli
A fan sent me a letter and a $10 bill. It’s a short letter – all she said was, ‘Hey, since it’s harder for you to go out these days without getting photographed, here $10 for a pizza.’ I was like, ‘Aww, she sent me money for a pizza so I could eat at home!’ – Zac Efron
It is safe to say that when people are short on cash, they might be less productive at work, be worse parents, and have less self-control. – Sendhil Mullainathan
I love film and, particularly, shorts. You don’t get to see them often, and they’re a great little form, like a short story. – Sarah Waters
My favorite caricaturist is Al Hirschfeld. I’m always trying to give my caricatures that streamlined quality – and I often fall short. – Steve Breen
Funnily enough, I never thought of myself as being short. Being an actor has made me much more conscious of it than I would have been otherwise. – Tom Hollander
I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels… a Library of Congress worth of awful literature. – Seth Grahame-Smith
My father is good with advice, as you might guess. But he keeps it short, and the takeaway is usually the same: to help us find our own way and our own gifts. – Tiffany Trump
Having judged a few competitions, it’s clear that novelists are often the laziest short story writers. – Sarah Hall
I’m mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror. – Sarah Zettel
I wear short shorts. After 10 years of strenuous ballet, it’s the least my legs can do for me. – Solange Knowles
I’m a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we’re able to sit down and take some time to talk. Too often, at regular book signings, I meet readers who have traveled six or eight hours to see me, and I’m unable to spend more than a few short minutes chatting with them as I sign books. – Suzanne Brockmann
All the jobs I’ve gotten in the last two years are because directors have seen the work I’ve done – indie films, plays, short student films, TV – since I moved to the states in 1996. I mean, I have an entire career in Canada that nobody has seen. – Sandra Oh
There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign. – Theodore White
Until the ’90s, major labels were looking for a certain look. This Sony guy told me I was ‘too black, too fat, too short, and too old.’ Told me to go and bleach my skin. Told me to step in the background and just stay back. I had the voice, but I didn’t have the looks. – Sharon Jones
But I quite like that the public has a very short attention span. If I haven’t been on telly for a little bit, I can sense it. People don’t take as much notice of you, it’s really quite palpable. – Sophie Ellis-Bextor
