Quotes About Conciseness

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.

An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

My commands are ordinarily short, clear, and precise; and I would rather be obliged to repeat my words twice, or even three times, than they should be misunderstood.

Truly clever things are said with short words. Long ones are used to hide stupidity

When you've got a thing to say, Say it! Don't take half a day. When your tale's got little in it Crowd the whole thing in a minute! Life is short--a fleeting vapor-- Don't you fill the whole blamed paper With a tale which, at a pinch, Could be cornered in an inch! Boil her down until she simmers, Polish her until she glimmers.

What is the short meaning of the long speech?

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts.

simple conveying of information to rational people.

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words.

good writing should be grasped at once—in a second.

For any writer, the ability to look at a sentence and see what's superfluous, what can be altered, revised, expanded, and, especially, cut, is essential.

When you try to communicate too many ideas, sometimes you wind up communicating nothing.

Hidden in a long text, there are perhaps three lines that count.

If you have to go back and spell-check the text you're about to send, you're saying too much.

I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material.

Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many.

The more concrete and simple your goal, the better.

O melhor prólogo é o que contém menos coisas, ou o que as diz de um jeito obscuro e truncado.

The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one. I

Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech, ' as William Zinsser said, and in as few words as possible. Use action verbs to carry water.

Simple works, complex fails.

Whatever you want to teach, be brief.

That teacher teaches best who teaches least.

Verzeih mir, guter Freund, dass ich dir einen so langen Brief schreibe, ich hab gerade nicht die Zeit für einen kurzen.