The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness.
Vigorous writing is concise.
In trying to be concise I become obscure.
I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible.
There is no truth which cannot be given in fifty words; the truth is always concise.
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
Achieving goals is a creative process. The first step in the creation of your primary goal takes place in your conscious mind. Through the aid of your senses and/or your imagination, you must form a very clear, concise image of yourself already in possession of your goal.
This is an extraordinary illustrated collection of Chinese herbsaccompanied by concise and expert comments. Jing-Nuan Wu has succeeded incompiling this most unique and informative book.
I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.
I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.
A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.
Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense
I'm trying to tell the story in the most clear, concise, and truthful way, taking those everyday words and phrases and capturing them in a way that they become something else.
Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining.
In the wake of her indispensable textbook, Janet Burroway now offers a splendid and concise guide to the thorny task of revision. Writers, young and old, will feel encouraged and enlightened by this excellent DVD which offers a wonderful range of specific advice and suggestive comments from a group of experienced and thoughtful writers.
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!
Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late.
In laboring to be concise, I become obscure. [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]
Good web text has a lot in common with good print text. It's plain, concise, concrete and 'transparent': even on a personal site the text shouldn't draw attention to itself, only to its subject.
A story should, to please, at least seem true, Be apropos, well told, concise, and new: And whenso'er it deviates from these rules, The wise will sleep, and leave applause to fools.
I like poetry because poetry - even in free verse - is formal, and it has to be very concise and packed and rich, and I like the feeling of having to do that, having to make the language tight and still free, as if the deepest freedom is created by the restrictions.
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