Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
“Life is too short to waste
The critic bite or cynic bark,
Quarrel, or reprimand;
'Twill soon be dark;
Up! mind thine own aim, and
God speed the mark!”
To J.W. http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/to_jw.htm, st. 4 <br class="br">1840s, Poems (1847)
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Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet
Attributed without citation in Ken Robinson, The Element (2009), p. 260. Widely attributed to Michelangelo since the late 1990s, this adage has not been found before 1980 when it appeared without attribution in E. C. McKenzie, Mac's giant book of quips & quotes.
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Variant: The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Isaac Watts (1674–1748) English hymnwriter, theologian and logician
Song 16: "Against Quarrelling and Fighting".
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
“It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind
Source: The Shadow of the Wind
“Soon we will plunge into the cold darkness;
Farewell, vivid brightness of our too-short summers!”
Charles Baudelaire book Les Fleurs du mal
Bientôt nous plongerons dans les froides ténèbres;<br>Adieu, vive clarté de nos étés trop courts! <br class="br">"Chant d'Automne" [Song of Autumn] http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Chant_d%E2%80%99automne <br class="br">Les fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil) (1857)
“Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly”
Jayne Ann Krentz (1948) American novelist
Source: Running Hot
“Life is too short to spend too long at work and also to waste your time while in the workplace.”
Nigel Cumberland (1967) British author and leadership coach
Source: Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003), Successful Recruitment in a Week (2012) https://books.google.ae/books?idp24GkAsgjGEC&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIGjAA#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, Managing Teams in a Week (2013) https://books.google.ae/books?idqZjO9_ov74EC&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIIDAB#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, Secrets of Success at Work – 50 techniques to excel (2014) https://books.google.ae/books?id4S7vAgAAQBAJ&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIJjAC#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, p.36
