If I just try and tell a room of people to remember the word for to fit in Spanish, very difficult to remember caber tomorrow. Brevity is levity. You have a very short time period.
So what I had to learn is how to be crystal clear, and just very less is more. Brevity is more. And I want to read-- one of the women I interviewed, Pat Mitchell.She was the CEO of PBS and a number of other media companies.
Otherwise, I would have never -- I would have been freaking out every day trying to write it. The other thing is, you know, we've all heard "Brevity is the soul of wit." And that's very true. You know, I teach a comedy workshop. And people come in with the joke.
We need those people in our network too. And we know that brevity really is an art and it helps.
And this is puzzling, right? What explains the brevity of this depression, considering the actions of the policymakers? And Jim is here to help in person, to help us unravel and deconstruct what really happened behind the scenes.
You can save, like, 100 kilobytes a year, which saves some money. Thou shalt not covet brevity . Do you really want to sustain the stereotype that engineers can't write?
The best piece of advice I ever got was to read Strunk and White. Strunk believed in brevity so much, he cheers brevity so much, he couldn't write a long book. The book itself is maybe 80 pages or so, and it's chock full of good advice.
There's one bit-- we said towards the end of one of the chapters, what happened next was quite complicated and convoluted. So in the interest of brevity , we'll keep it to one sentence. And then that sentence goes on for four pages.
Given an image under a projection, like a photograph, we can infer its so-called focal length. So smoke means life's brevity , or a crown means power.
And so you wonder why we have this communication gap sometimes. And what it is is brevity , clarity. These kinds of things I learned.
It's absolutely fine. I'll try and leave some time at the end. But in the interest of brevity and moving on, what I'm going to talk about today is what I'm going to call story physics. I'm going to talk about how the narrative works and explore the similarities between narrative in film and television, but also hopefully touch
-What's that? -Coming up with new ideas. One of them is this idea of brevity .
Why are those flowers, those fragile cherry blossoms and those so delicate blue flax flowers, why are they so much more beautiful than plastic flowers? I mean, isn't it their brevity that is part of their beauty? I mean, isn't the fact that we know that they'll come and go, doesn't that invite us into wonder and to gratitude?
This is one of my favorite things about it. He says, just sake of brevity , let's say people like me are geeks. And we are 2% of the population.
almost um almost uh uh infinitely and in fact he said in one in one letter he said that uh he planted planned to do this if he were not quote prevented by the brevity of life and it's not clear if he were you know he was making a joke there or not but after he died in fact some people many people believed that he
But the process of getting to a first draft, I can't stand leaving something that I know isn't right, so there is a lot of rewriting Not so much going to screenwriting, but going from screenwriting to prose, and I think there's something about the brevity of the form
And how does it end? OK, so very simple, again, simplistic for obvious reasons-- brevity . But you take those 10 questions.
Gary reads Tolstoy in the original Russian. And I'm used to being incredibly verbose. Soaking in my own, you know, brilliant verbosity. But Twitter has made me actually mind brevity -- think about brevity . And so,