Summarize Quotes

#1. Unconsciously, I think I watch for a look, an expression, features or nostalgia that can summarize or more accurately reveal life.

Steve McCurry

#2. Nisbett and Borgida summarize the results in a memorable sentence: Subjects' unwillingness to deduce the particular from the general was matched only by their willingness to infer the general from the particular.

Daniel Kahneman

#3. I can't summarize my favorite movie, Jacques Tati's 'Play Time.' You just have to see it.

Rick Perlstein

#4. One cannot always summarize massive issues by looking at the life of one person or one family, or even one community.

Fred Ritchin

#5. To summarize a poem or put it into prose is quite simply to misunderstand the essence of an art.

Paul Valery

#6. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.

Douglas Adams

#7. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

Douglas Adams

#8. 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.

Thomas Mann

#9. The Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum can summarize: "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."

Ursula Goodenough

#10. The more you summarize, the more order you put in, the less randomness. Hence the same condition that makes us simplify pushes us to think that the world is less random than it actually is. And

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#11. The word that seems best to summarize the desire of the human heart is 'communion.' ... wherever we look it is communion that we seek.

Henri Nouwen

#12. A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the 'Modifier's Madness.' A lot of adjectives working overtime.

Sufjan Stevens

#13. When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.

Albert Einstein

#14. He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.

Euripides

#15. Words summarize the American philosophy of life: Live and let live; Let's make a deal. 8 words summarize American foreign policy: We're better than you; Do it our way.

Gary North

#16. Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to them by definition, because if you're trying to summarize something for your 1-year-old, you put it in very simple terms. You only gradually complicate the explanation as they get older.

Emma Donoghue

#17. I believe in the premillenial, pre-tribulational coming of Christ for all of his church, and to summarize that, your first poll, do you believe Jesus coming the second time will be in the future, I would vote yes with the 59 percent and with Billy Graham and most evangelicals.

Jerry Falwell

#18. The unanswerable mysteries ... the attitude that all is uncertain ... to summarize it - the humility of the intellect.

Richard P. Feynman

#19. The more clearly a man understands anything, the more readily he can summarize it in a few words.

Fulton J. Sheen

#20. BASICS OF DIET AND HEALTH The basic principles of good diets are so simple that I can summarize them in just ten words: eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits and vegetables. For additional clarification, a five-word modifier helps: go easy on junk foods.

Marion Nestle

#21. Language is the most elementary aspect to our humanness, probably. In addition to that, it's the embodiment, it's the apotheosis of the human experience, it's the way we summarize ourselves.

George Carlin

#22. A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.

Ian Frazier

#23. To summarize, when we experience difficult or stressful situations, especially if we have had significant stresses earlier in life and if we are unable to express or show how we feel, we will be at risk for our bodies to experience pain.

Howard Schubiner

#24. I know it is strange to feel an emotional connection to a garment, but strange seems to summarize my thinking process in general.

Katie Kacvinsky

#25. People who don't know how to summarize have no dignity. Neither do people who needlessly drag on their messy lives. They who don't know the beauty of simplification, of pruning away the unnecessary, die without ever comprehending the true meaning of life.

Young-Ha Kim

#26. Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.

Felix Frankfurter

#27. You can't summarize a story or a life. The story, the life, is the summary.

Marty Rubin

#28. To summarize: Three steps must be taken to smash the war racket. 1. We must take the profit out of war. 2. We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war. 3. We must limit our military forces to home defense purposes.

Smedley D. Butler

#29. For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers.

Albert Camus

#30. For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain?

Joyce Carol Oates

#31. Biologists summarize these hypothalamic duties as the "four F's" of animal behavior - feeding, fleeing, fighting, and, well, sexual congress.

Sam Kean

#32. If you can't summarize an issue on one page, you don't understand the issue well enough.

Ronald Reagan

#33. Thus when I have to summarize naturalized spirituality in a single phrase, it is this: the thoughtful love of life.

Robert C. Solomon

#34. As for "Don't be evil," we have tried to define precisely what it means to be a force for good-always do the right, ethical thing. Ultimately, "Don't be evil" seems the easiest way to summarize it."

Sergey Brin

#35. If I had to summarize, most broadly, my concerns as a writer, I'd say the question 'How then must we live?' is at the heart of it, for me.

Claire Messud

#36. Okay, can somebody quickly just summarize for the shotgun department who it's okay and not okay to shoot?

David Wong

#37. If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible.

Gary Bettman

#38. The principles you live by create the world you live in. So when you change the principles you live by, you can change your world. Your mission statement serves to summarize the principles you want to live by.

Stephen R. Covey

#39. Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person's life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader's style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.

John C. Maxwell

#40. People will summarize your life in one sentence - Pick it now.

John C. Maxwell

#41. If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of interpersonal relations, it would be this: Seek first to understand, then to be understood. This principle is the key to effective interpersonal communication.

Stephen Covey

#42. You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down ... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.

Aaron Copland

#43. His pictures of this region summarize the soulful emptiness of a country where, as Gertrude Stein observed, 'there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is.

Sarah Vowell

#44. No knowledge can summarize humans in one premise.

Zaman Ali

#45. I've glued the letter directly into my diary, as it's so staggeringly imbecilic that any attempt to summarize its contents would make my brain leak out through my ears.

Tim Collins

#46. Leaders identify, articulate, and summarize concepts that motivate others. Most important, they boil concepts down to an understandable idea.

Laurie Beth Jones

#47. She breathed deeply and smelled water-logged books, the perfume of rotting cardboard and paper that had dried beneath the furnace of the July sun. If a single breath could summarize an entire life, she supposed that would do.

Joe Hill

#48. To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

Noam Chomsky

#49. My present crush is crushing my past crush...Can I summarize "Crush Crushing & now Crushed

Akansh Malik

#50. Exposition has legitimate uses. It's the most efficient way to summarize background information, including necessary information about a character's history. It can set the stage well for a major dramatized event.

Nancy Kress

#51. If you had to summarize the Old Testament, the summary would be: stop doing this to yourselves.

Marilynne Robinson

#52. My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.

John Barton

#53. Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.

Laurie Anderson

#54. If you dread the thought of wasted time in meetings, chances are that your team members feel the same way. Team members are also demotivated by one-way discussions, haphazard participation and arbitrary decisions. Structure every meeting at the start and summarize them at the end.

Martin Zwilling

#55. I can summarize my thoughts now by simply saying each must find his or her own Way because "the way" does not exist.

Robert Anton Wilson

#56. To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a fixed manner but are determined by learning early in life.

Peter R. Grant