Shorthand Quotes

• I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author.

  Isaac Pitman

  Becoming, Intention

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• A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Mines

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• God for a month of power & a good shorthand writer.

  Winston Churchill

  War, World, Months

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• A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.

  Jack Adams

  Class, Yeoman, Firsts

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• You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back.

  David Strathairn

  Team, Weakness, Likes

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• People often need to describe things quickly and so they use a shorthand. The problem is that after they use a label, they begin to think only in terms of the label instead of the totality of the experience a novel provides.

  Akhil Sharma

  Thinking, People, Use

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Habits are the shorthand of behavior.

  Julie Henderson

  Life, Behavior, Habit

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• My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.

  David McCullough

  Book, Writing, Interesting

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. May/June 2003.

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• The name of God should no longer come from the mouth of man. This word that has so long been degraded by usage no longer means anything.... To use the word God is more than sloth, it is a refusal to think, a king of short cut, a hideous shorthand.

  Arthur Adamov

  God, Kings, Mean

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• "Oppression" or "systems of oppression" operate as a shorthand terms in much writing and speaking so that we do not have to list all these systems of meaning and control each time (i.e. racism, ableism, xenophobia, etc.). I needed a term like that, but "oppression" implies a kind of top-down understanding of power that is at odds with the Foucaultian model I rely on in my work.

  Dean Spade

  Xenophobia, Writing, Top Down

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.

  Twyla Tharp

  Piano, Dancing, Training

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• You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.

  Robin Williams

  Python, People, Routine

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• However good a communicator a director is, unless they've been actors, it's just not the same as the shorthand you get with someone who's been an actor.

  Colin Firth

  Directors, Actors, Communicators

  "St Trinian's - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Money follows mission, not the reverse. This is a shorthand way of saying that the stronger the congregation's relational characteristics, the easier it is to raise money. The stronger the congregation's mission, visitation, groupings, leadership, and decision making, the stronger the giving.

  Kennon Callahan

  Giving, Decision, Stronger

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• Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Music, Men, Jazz

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• When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

  Beck

  Long, Periods, Long Periods Of Time

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• I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.

  Potter Stewart

  Succeed, Kind, Obscenity

  Jacobellis v. Ohio (concurring opinion) (1964)

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• I didn't know shorthand either. This meant I couldn't get a good job after college. My mother kept telling me nobody wanted a plain English major. But an English major who knew shorthand would be something else again. Everybody would want her. She would be in demand among all the up-and-coming young men and she would transcribe letter after thrilling letter. The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way. I wanted to dictate my own thrilling letters.

  Sylvia Plath

  Mother, Jobs, College

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• The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.

  Robert Henri

  Moving, Hunters, Stopping

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• I decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover, and that I would never learn a word of shorthand. If I never learned shorthand I would never have to use it.

  Sylvia Plath

  Europe, Gone, Use

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.62, Hamilton Books

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• You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.

  Michael Caine

  Writing, Talking, Guy

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• But the trouble with sainthood these days is the robe-and-halo imagery that gets stuck onto it." Carl got that brooding look again. "People forget that robes were street clothes once... and still are, in a lot of places. And halos are to that fierce air of innocence what speech balloons in comics are to the sound of the voice itself. Shorthand. But most people just see an old symbol and don't bother looking behind it for the meaning. Sainthood starts to look old-fashioned, unattainable... even repellent. Actually, you can see it all around, once you learn to spot it.

  Diane Duane

  Voice, Clothes, Air

  Diane Duane (2003). “A Wizard Alone”, p.234, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think America the symbol and America the notion are still very different from America the nation. What's touching and almost regenerative is that whatever is happening in the reality of America, where there is a murder rate worse than Lebanon's and where there is so much homelessness and poverty, still America will be a shorthand throughout the world for everything that is young and modern and free.

  Pico Iyer

  Reality, Thinking, America

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I didn't take up shorthand with any idea of becoming a professional at it. It merely appeared to me to be a good thing to know - something that might come in handy.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Ideas, Might, Becoming

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• As for organs, traits, etc., being "for" something, the notion may be a useful shorthand, but shouldn't be taken too seriously, if only because of the ubiquitous phenomenon of exaptation.

  Noam Chomsky

  Taken, May, Etc

  Source: libcom.org

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