Quotes About Conciseness

I actually think I learned to write concisely working for an encyclopedia company in Chicago.

You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.

My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

Mini-sagas are extremely short stories—just fifty words long…no more, no less.

Vigorous writing is concise.

It's all right when you are calling on a girl or talking with friends after dinner to run a conversation like a Sunday-school excursion, with stops to pick flowers; but in the office your sentences should be the shortest distance possible between periods.

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.

Less is not necessarily more. Just enough is more. –Milton Glaser

The best quote isn't having the most beautiful or the longest words, but the one that matches our feelings when we read it.

One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important.

No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.

The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out.

Think more design less

Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.

I've always thought that less was a lot more.

I usually go with the 'less is more' approach.

Basically, less is more when it comes to film.

I always think less is more.

As a listener, I like shorter records, because you can really absorb the songs.

In China, people only talk to make a point. You ask someone to go to lunch. They say yes or they say no.

The most powerful tool any of us can use to magically open doors is a one-liner.