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Quotes About Summary

Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.
~ Jack Schwartz
If it has a staple in it it doesn't get read. Never walk into a presentation without a one-page summary.
~ Bill Jensen
Books have this function that help me to understand the work I've done, to wrap it up.
~ Wolfgang Tillmans
Content curation involves finding other people's good stuff, summarizing it, and sharing it. Curation is a win-win-win: you need content to share; blogs and websites need more traffic; and people need filters to reduce the flow of information.
~ Guy Kawasaki
test is: can the key trends be shown to the board on no more than two sides of A4 paper?
~ Bob Garratt
You can make a really good one minute trailer out of a really stinky two hour movie.
~ Jim Cornette
And that's the world in a nutshell, an appropriate receptacle.
~ Stan Dunn
read everything he could find on the subject. One of his favorite books was actually called Complexity, by M. Mitchell Waldrop. His favorite paper to pass out was "How Complex Systems Fail," an eighteen-bullet-point summary by Richard I. Cook, now a professor of health care systems safety in Sweden. (Bullet
~ Michael Lewis
Though reading is no substitute for hearing McKenna expound his thesis (you can find him on YouTube), he summarizes it in Food of the Gods (1992): Psilocybes
~ Michael Pollan
I would summarise my politics very simply as the maverick left and proud.
~ Mary Beard
Barr paused and delivered his summary line: "They just think you're a fucking asshole." Trump did not seem taken aback or insulted.
~ Bob Woodward
Barr paused and delivered his summary line: "They just think you're a fucking asshole.
~ Bob Woodward
Bueno, hay un libro, esto es prosa, que yo salvaría, y es el Ulises. Yo pienso que el Ulises en alguna medida resume toda la literatura universal.
~ Julio Cortazar
Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name; in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session.
~ Franz Kafka
Not that the story need to be long, but it will take a long time to shorten it
~ Henry David Thoreau
A full and painstaking account of the day's fighting, from which this summary is largely derived, is given by Alfred Price in the work which gave this day its name. First published in 1979, it remains one of the best books yet written about the Battle of Britain.
~ Stephen Bungay
Children are dying.' Lull nodded. 'That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words. Quote me, Duiker, and your work's done.' The bastard's right. Economics, ethics, the games of the gods - all within that single, tragic statement. I'll quote you, soldier. Be assured of that.
~ Steven Erikson
In the summer, we write life's summary with the slow waves of love flowing over the sandy beach. The slow breeze and the warm sun write our memories.
~ Debasish Mridha
Next, the team will summarize the metrics across the full value stream. We recommend, at a minimum, ... four ... summary metrics: Total Lead Time...Total Process Time ... Activity Ratio ... Rolled Percent Complete and Accurate
~ Karen Martin
That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words. Quote me, Duiker, and your work's done.
~ Steven Erikson
Children are dying.' Lull nodded. 'That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words. Quote me, Duiker, and your work's done.
~ Steven Erikson
That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.
~ Steven Erikson
Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.
~ Steven Erikson
I thought of writing a summary about you, but when I finished it was a book.
~ Amit Kalantri, I Love You Too