Less words, more thought.
I couldn’t agree more …
“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”
- Blaise Pascal, (1623-1662) Lettres provinciales.
Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.
- Henry David Thoreau
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
- Marcus T. Cicero
You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.
- Karl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
- Nietzsche
The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.
- Felelon
No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all-disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report….
- Woodrow Wilson
“If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.”
- Mark Twain