Matthew Desmond

You meet folks who are funny and really smart and persistent and loving that are confronting this thing we call poverty, which is just a shorthand for this way of life that holds you underwater. And you just wonder what our country would be if we allowed these people to flourish and reach their full potential.

American Sociologist

Chris Pine

Growing up in a family of actors, what's great about it is that they're very supportive and they understand what it's like to be an actor - the rejections, the highs and lows... and having a common language with them is great because you have shorthand speech.

American Actor

Lisa Edelstein

When you play the same character for a long time, you have a shorthand. You get onto the set, you put on your outfit and two-thirds of your work is done because you've built on that work for so many years.

American Actress

Sylvia Plath

My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated it and hated him for dying and leaving no money because he didn't trust life insurance salesmen.

American Poet

Fallon Fox

It's hard because the phrase 'woman trapped in a man's body' is thrown around a lot, but that's like shorthand. It's deeper than that. There's so much more to it.

American Athlete

Elizabeth Berg

I think titles are extremely important for novels: They can set the tone, tip you off, serve as shorthand for what the essential contents are.

American Author

John Cassavetes

I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.

Robin Williams

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

American Comedian

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

English Novelist

Leo Tolstoy

Russian Novelist

Shorthand helps you write quickly, perfect for taking notes during speeches or classes.

Time Saver

Requires study to master its symbols and speed, often used by professionals like journalists or secretaries.

Specialized Skill

Many shorthand systems exist, so not every symbol is understood the same way by everyone.

Not Universal

Perfect for social media where character count is limited, shorthand conveys more with less.

Concise Expression

Can signal in-group membership or expertise in a particular field, like tech or fashion.

Cultural Jargon

Ensure your audience understands the shorthand to avoid confusion.

Avoid Ambiguity

 on the issues of gender sexual assault, domestic violence, relationship abuse, sexual harassment, sexual abuse of children. That whole range of issues that I'll refer to in shorthand as "gender violence issues," they've been seen as women's issues that some good men help out with, but I have a problem with that frame and I don't accept it.

Jackson Katz: Violence...

 by the shorthand that we sort of all default to CAR, so if you are confused that's what I am talking about. This is a map from a high school geography book. And it shows the ethnic groups. And there are more than 50 ethnic groups and sub-groups. It's also a nation filled with treasure literally.

Chaos in the Heart of...

 and the home depot work by telling you exactly what the company does but these names can be a mouthful and are much harder to own and protect acronyms like ge and bp are just shorthand versions of descriptive names some acronyms are more strategic kentucky fried chicken switched to kfc

How to create a great...

 has fallen below levels that make them economic. Is the shorthand of what's happened there that electric cars and electric technologies and solar and so forth have helped drive down the price of oil to the point where huge amounts of the reserves

The new urgency of...

 So, think of it this way. Imagine a world full of brains and far more memes than can possibly find homes. The memes are all trying to get copied -- trying, in inverted commas -- i.e., that's the shorthand for, if they can get copied, they will.

Susan Blackmore: Memes...

 It's an icon. It's visual shorthand, and it's how we look at so much of our world today. See, we have so much information coming at us all the time, that our brains literally can't process it, and we fill in the world with patterns.

Wendy MacNaughton: The...

 That grizzly image has since been immortalized as shorthand slang for single-minded cult-like thinking, "They drank the Kool-aid." Today, there are thousands of cults around the world. It's important to note two things about them.

Why do people join...

 the important details "Shorthand description,; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly defining it. But I know it when I see it." I'm going to come back to that in a moment. So, what is simplicity?

George Whitesides:...

 pornography and let me just read it the important details here shorthand description hardcore pornography and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly to finding it but I know it

Toward a science of...

 This stereotype is probably exploited and magnified by images in popular media, in which facial disfigurement is often used as a shorthand to depict someone of villainous character.