Sufjan Stevens

Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes packaged and summarized in a word like 'emo' or 'grunge'... or 'folk music.' I think that's just language itself, trying to understand the mysteries of the world.

American Musician

Clayton M. Christensen

From my first year on the faculty, there was always so much more I wanted to impart to the students. I decided that, rather than waste the last day of class summarizing the semester, I'd spend my time talking about what I'd learned in life that was useful.

American Author

John C. Maxwell

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.

American Clergyman

Noam Chomsky

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.

American Activist

Ryan Reynolds

I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it's just tough and almost emotionally violent - for anyone, I think - to see your personal life summarized in a sentence.

Canadian Actor

Sergey Brin

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.

American Businessman

Leon Trotsky

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.

Russian Revolutionary

Kristina McMorris

Letters From Home' is a 90,000-word WWII love story with a twist, aptly summarized as 'The Notebook' meets 'Saving Private Ryan.

Tom Allen

I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.

American Politician

Rick Perlstein

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

American Historian

Focus only on the most important points of a longer text or speech.

Main Points Only

A summary should not contain your opinions, just a neutral overview.

No Personal Views

Write summaries that are easy to understand, using clear language.

Clarity is Key

Briefly revisit main points of a conversation or written piece.

Concise Recap

Use 'summarize' after discussions to encapsulate what was agreed upon.

Post-Discussion Summary

In a study or research setting, summarizing refers to distilling complex information.

Academic Context

Keep summaries accurate without omitting crucial details for simplicity.

Avoid Over-Simplifying

Maintain an unbiased voice when summarizing, especially in academic writing.

Objective Tone

 What could possibly go wrong in this new machine age? Right? Great, hang up, flourish, go home. We're going to face two really thorny sets of challenges as we head deeper into the future that we're creating. The first are economic, and they're really nicely summarized in an apocryphal story about a back-and-forth

What will future jobs...

 To summarize, I would say, next time you go to drink beer or wine, first of all, think about, what is it in your experience that is real, and what is it in your experience that is a placebo effect coming from expectations? And then think about what it also means for other decisions in your life,

How equal do we want the...

 to make any of us kind or cruel, caring or indifferent, creative or destructive, and it makes some of us villains. And the good news that I'm going to hopefully come to at the end is that it makes some of us heroes. This wonderful cartoon in the New Yorker summarizes my whole

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 and it all is just practice because in the end we're just human people who cannot understand the divine but we can seek to practice it helps you to strengthen your character to strengthen your spirituality and your connection to God and so to your point summarize who

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 We spend lots of time learning about calculation, but let's not forget about application, including, perhaps, the most important application of all, learning how to think. If I could summarize this in one sentence, it would be Mathematics is not just solving for x,

The magic of Fibonacci...

 and he summarized the challenge for us all. He said in his lifetime he had climbed a great mountain, the mountain of challenging and then defeating racial oppression and defeating apartheid. He said that there was a greater challenge ahead,

Wiring a web for global...

 And it also suggests that there is something not only in young mouse plasma, but in young human plasma that has the capacity to help this old brain. So to summarize, we find the old mouse, and its brain in particular, are malleable.

How young blood might...

 I am certain of that. So how do you live your life eyes wide open? It is a learned discipline. It can be taught. It can be practiced. I will summarize very briefly. Hold yourself accountable

Isaac Lidsky: What...

 To summarize, adenosine inhibits your neurons. Caffeine inhibits the inhibitor, so it stimulates you. Caffeine can also boost positive feelings. In some neurons, the adenosine receptors

How does caffeine keep...

 yeah first of all first of all congratulations on possibly the fastest TED talk ever so to summarize five words the reason the world needs cities now

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