Quotes About Concise

This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.

I love caddies because caddies will tell you the truth and use very few words doing it.

If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.

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

He wrote: "Most of these woolly phrases are mere padding, which can be left out altogether, or replaced by a single word. Let us not shrink from using the short expressive phrase, even if it is conversational.

The resulting prose, he wrote, "may at first seem rough as compared with the flat surface of officialese jargon. But the saving of time will be great, while the discipline of setting out the real points concisely will prove an aid to clear thinking.

After all if I'm trying to write books without any extra words I might as well stick to it.

Briefer is better, so learn to write tight

It's not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to the subject. This is what people like about my work, and what the critics hate.

I'm a 'just the facts, ma'am' kind of guy.

I think my blog is fairly circumspect and elliptical. I've written personal essays, but they are short and to the point: in and out, and that's that.

The most effective way to capture attention is to use your enthusiasm to answer each question succinctly in a concise, brief manner. Never use more than 60 seconds on any answer.

Pierpont was, by nature, a laconic man.

sentences. A succinct and everyday exchange of information.

Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

The so-called poet with his vague dreams and ideals is indeed no better than a harmless lunatic; the true poet is the worker, who grips life's throat and wrings out its secret, who selects austerely and composes concisely, whose work is as true and clean as razor-steel, albeit its sweep is vaster and swifter than the sun's!

You could take the entirety of the common sense of humans and put it in the palm of your hand and still have room for your dick.

In the past, people have had to hire lawyers or consultants to try to figure out whether or not their property contains a federal waterway. We want to make sure that the definition is clear and concise.

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

I believe most things can be said in a few lines.

He thinks before he speaks, then says no more than he has to.

In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.

As proverbs are meant to be portable, it is essential that they should be packed up in few words...