Quotes About Conciseness

That was all many years ago," she continued; "but they never appointed a new Which, and that explains why today people use as many words as they can and think themselves very wise for doing so. For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many.

today people use as many words as they can and think themselves very wise for doing so, For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many.

As they say, a word to the wise is sufficient. And here I've gone and written five paragraphs.

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour. – Dianna Booher

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

Those sentences are somewhat clotted

things, by removing the superfluous." The G4 Cube was almost ostentatious

There's no sense in doing a lot of barking if you don't really have anything to say.

Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. Noble actions are the substance of life; good sayings its ornament and guide.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

With few words one can speak the truth.

My motto is strong packaging, clear addressing.

Eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Nothing is so tiring to the reader as excavating nuggets of meaning from mountains of words.

Be sparing of your words if you wish them to be powerful.

Think long thoughts in short sentences.

Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to be a thing that has not gotten through to them. It's my impression that you could get rid of half of most of these books. These people are not good enough to be this long, but they're apparently also not good enough to be shorter.

Almost always, shortening a sentence improves it. A nice short sentence feels like something has been left out, which helps give it the element of surprise.

There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.

En general, quienes no tienen nada que decir invierten el mayor tiempo posible en no decir nada.

The less said the better.

I am completely attracted to the idea of simplicity, or at least removing things that seem unnecessary when trying to get an idea out there.

In the future, things will truncate! No, in the age of Twitter, we can't be upset when words become shorter.

The aim of every typographic work - the delivery of a message in the shortest, most efficient manner.