Quotes About Conciseness

The more we reduce the amount of information in an idea, the stickier it will be.

You say 10 things, you say nothing.

You don't have to speak monosyllables to be simple. What we mean by simple is finding the core of the idea.

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.

In art economy is always beauty.

There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification.

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

Why say 'utilize' when you can say 'use'?

Better to say something simply instead of giving people a bunch of vague metaphors to mull over.

It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer.

An employee, even a very junior person, if they can articulately summarize a meeting, if they can put together a presentation and even emails that are really salient and to the point, they are so valued.

Answers of less than 30 seconds are generally insufficient, but answers over three minutes are too long.

I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it!

I can do pretty good work in various short forms, but anything over 1400 words, I'd be of no use. I like to say I'm a river navigator. I need to see the shore behind the shore.

So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.

Simplicity is often one of the greatest strengths.

I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.

Put no more than three messages on a lemonade stand. You have to describe what your product is, why it's the best, and how much it is. Don't be drawing turtles and flowers and footballs all over it, distracting people. Keep it clean.

For this Mary's words were not surcharged with oversubtle meaning. No, she spoke them out swiftly and with sharp clearness and each word had its own weight and meaning and no more, good tools of her mind, but not messengers of vague suggestion.

Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.