Quotes About Concise

Confining a resume to a single page is good advice for anyone.

Space and resources preclude an exhaustive or even an extensive comparative

The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting.

I'm short and to the point.

That [man] can compress the most words in the fewest ideas of any man I ever knew.

Aduro himself had told them so.

Language and poetry are endlessly fascinating. The most brilliant work can be so sparse yet so full of meaning. That's what I'm looking for in a song: imagery to describe things in ways that are perfectly concise. I'm constantly trying to find one hard, crystal thing.

Poems are ideally suited, in some ways, to social media because they pack so much meaning into so little language.

I hate exposition and superfluous dialogue. I hate when dialogue is trying to explain or patronize or finger-point.

So your first sentence should be very compelling by virtue of its short length and ease of reading. No long multisyllabic words. Keep it short, sweet and almost incomplete so that the reader has to read the next sentence.

She's terse. I can be terse. Once, in flight school, I was laconic.

Incidentally, am I alone in finding the expression "it turns out" to be incredibly useful? It allows you to make swift, succinct, and authoritative connections between otherwise randomly unconnected statements without the trouble of explaining what your source or authority actually is.

Her conversation, I soon found, was couched in the telegraphic style.

David Emmott spoke clearly and concisely in his pleasant soft American voice.

simply being laconic.

A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble

I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.

I'm a man of few words." "If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary.

I strive to be brief, and become obscure.

If I'm not saying it in four choruses or less, then I'm not saying it.

It is called the First Amendment. ...Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's music.

Simplicity is the pursuit of the essential.

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

A Constitution should be short and obscure.