Quotes About Concision

#1. We have deemed all these words necessary in order to explain that we have been traveling more slowly than was predicted, concision is not a definitive virtue, on occasion one loses out by talking too much, it is true, but how much has also been gained by saying more than was strictly necessary.

Jose Saramago

#2. I think the best thing I learned from drawing comics is that it's a great exercise in concision.

Patrice Leconte

#3. Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.

Ron Rash

#4. If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

Helen Vendler

#5. Lovers of concision, laconicism and economy of language will doubtless be asking, if the idea is such a simple one, why did we need all this waffle to arrive, at last, at the critical point.

Jose Saramago

#6. Concision is the sister of talent.

Ken Follett

#7. Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Caroline Goyder

#8. When you're writing in big block paragraphs, you can afford to have a redundant sentence now and then, but the Twitter format requires concision.

Anthony Marra

#9. Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?

Edouard Manet

#10. Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.

Abby Sunderland

#11. Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.

Susan Sontag

#12. Importance is not in 'discharge' (of karmas) that occurs; but it is in the contemplation (dhyan) within at that time in effect that is important.

Dada Bhagwan

#13. I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.

John Pople

#14. I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.

Dakota Johnson

#15. Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

Rabindranath Tagore

#16. Our self-acknowledgement, our dedication has to be bigger than our fear.

Rod Stryker

#17. It was machines that scanned the heavens, machines that probed the space between atoms, machines that asked the questions and designed to experiments to answer them. All that was left for mere meat, apparently, was navel-gazing.

Peter Watts

#18. There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.

Herman Melville