Quotes About Conciseness

Dicke Bücher sind deswegen dick, weil der Autor nicht die Zeit hatte sich kurz zu fassen.

too much detail can have a distancing effect

The bad debater never knows that one explanation is better than five.

clear, simple, salient, and meaningful disclosures.

If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.

Why must an aphorism be brief? Because only a fool gives a speech in a burning house.

My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)

Monsieur, pray confine yourself to the point.

Simply In Depth......

THE LESS SAID, the fewer mistakes; the greater the talk, the greater the headache. —YOSEF QIMHI (C. 1160–1235)

I have always believed in 'less is more' in everything I do, from work to my personal life.

It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.

As Einstein said, "Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler.")

What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent.

Doctors have limited time to listen to your story, but you must make sure they understand why you're there. Don't just say that you have chest pain - explain when it started, what you were doing, and how it felt. Write down key elements. Practice until you can tell it in 30 seconds or less.

The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.

Never say more than is necessary.

A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom.

Men who have much to say use the fewest words.

There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.

A business man's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking.

He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.

Hank Cochran was a man of very few words, but certainly the words that he chose were the right ones to use.

Never speak more clearly than you think.