#shorthand

Music is the shorthand of emotion. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#emotion #shorthand

I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it. ↗

— J. R. R. Tolkien

#i #i am #shorthand #talk #then

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

— Robin Williams

#everyone #finish #knows #like #monty

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 #clear #compelling #hope #i

While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#believe #careful #clinton #companion #connection

Wilder touches all the bases... in some kind of shorthand way. Now that's art. ↗

— James Naughton

#bases #kind #now #shorthand #some

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

#behind #day #develop #enough #good

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

#description #every #formal #german #had

I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author. ↗

— Isaac Pitman

#becoming #i #intention #shorthand

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

— Jack Adams

#class #first #first class #got #me