Quotes About Summary

Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.

I guess, really, in summary, everything I've been trying to say is that your life should be full of stories you want to tell. If you don't want to tell it, ever, why are you doing it? Likewise, if no one else cares to hear your story, with limited exceptions, why are you doing it?

I'm sure I could have read the entire four-thousand-page plot summarized in four hundred words on Wikipedia, or I could simply walk into any high school and ask a few questions of the first kid I find who isn't smoking crystal meth.

From the beginning, then, but briefly.

There you have it: our lives in a nutshell. Emphasis on nut.

It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting his whole self into it, quite unawares, presenting as if in allegory the basic themes and problems of his life.

Descriptive statistics exist to simplify, which always implies some loss of nuance or detail.

It was an effort formulating this summary, explaining myself. I preferred the distant past, centuries that were over and done with, ghosts that posed no direct threat. History could be milked for this cause or that. We observed it always with hindsight, projecting onto it our modern convictions and anxieties.

People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.

Blinkist—an app that condenses nonfiction books into 15-minute reads.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

all the boring rehash of what happened up to this point. That saves me a lot of time and effort.

The scale of these "cleansing executions" – judicial murder after summary trials – alarmed even Himmler who was visiting in October 1940, though obviously he was concerned not with the humanitarian issue but the wastage of much-needed "Aryan" labour.

When books and plays are made into movies, they frequently want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks.

I'm good at the broad strokes but hopeless at the details.

All in all, I wouldn't call it a bad outing. It was a short outing.

I love information. I want to stay current. I don't want to be under-informed. But I'm busy. Sometimes, I need an instant overview of a situation that I can grasp in a second.

Or are you just looking for some Cliff-Note summary so you can incorporate the impression of depth into some new panty-removal campaign?

That's all I have to say about that.

Opinions are announced in open court immediately before the start of the day's arguments. The justice who has written the majority opinion delivers a brief summary. A dissenting justice who feels particularly strongly might follow with a summary of the dissent. The statements that justices make from the bench are not part of the official opinion, but the few points that a justice might choose to emphasize from a long opinion can be illuminating for those present.

I have found a beautiful summary of the way I work with organisations, and the values I seek to amplify.

Bullies love to summarize.

a trial balance is. Basically it's a worksheet or report that lists all of the accounts in the general ledger, the monthly summary of account totals, and their year-to-date balances.

Love is a summary of the moral laws, not a replacement. Therefore, since we are commanded to walk in love, the moral laws are still in full effect.