Neil Gaiman

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

British Author

Jimi Hendrix

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

American Musician

J. R. R. Tolkien

I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

English Novelist

Samuel Johnson

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

English Writer

John Ruskin

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

Jim Brown

I was just a big guy running down with a big, deep pocket and little short stick putting it against my chest.

American Athlete

Josh Billings

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

American Comedian

Audre Lorde

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

American Poet

Friedrich Nietzsche

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

German Philosopher

Drew Barrymore

Life's too short. We have to love each other.

American Actress

Use 'short' to describe someone or something that is lower than expected.

Visual Description

'Short' often contrasts with 'tall' for height or 'long' for length.

Opposite Meaning

Think of 'short' as signaling a swift passage of time when describing events or durations.

Temporal Sense

'Short' can suggest that the duration was less than needed or expected.

Implying Inadequacy

When used as an adverb, 'short' implies not reaching something or being suddenly interrupted.

Spatial Gap

'Short of' indicates that you don't have as much as you need.

Insufficiency

Sometimes 'short' expresses a minor lack, getting close to but not reaching a goal.

Near Misses

In basketball, 'short' means the shot didn't reach the basket.

Technical Usage

In electronics, 'short' is a problem where electricity takes an unintended path.

Electrical Jargon

'Going short' means you're betting that a stock's price will fall.

Financial Strategy

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 because her math teacher in middle school didn't think she was talented. So if you experience mathematical anxiety, what can you do? Relaxation techniques, like short breathing exercises, have improved test performance in students with math anxiety. Writing down your worries can also help.

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 inches getting three shorts right now is definitely the ultimate ice pick to the forehead we could have paid a lot of bills with three keeper fish and me back on top but we got to keep fishing we can't let this put us down we know there's a keeper fish out there oh I

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 for more than a hundred years. Whether these two great civilizations, these two great countries, can in fact carve out a common future for themselves and for the world? In short, can we carve out a future which is peaceful and mutually prosperous,

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 a more extreme form, which we'll return to shortly. Grandiose narcissism is the most familiar kind, characterized by extroversion, dominance, and attention seeking. Grandiose narcissists pursue attention and power, sometimes as politicians,

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 we do actually have the power to cultivate our own confidence. Tip a quick fix. There are a few tricks that can give you an immediate confidence boost in the short term. Picture your success when you're beginning a difficult task,

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 Imagine that you're a crow. Here's your food in a deep hole. How would you go about, with the tools available to you on this table, solving this problem? The bird's tool kit includes a short stick hanging on a piece of string,