Genevieve Padalecki Quotes

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

I strive to be brief but I become obscure.

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

One tends to write beyond what's needed.

I labor to be brief, and manage to be obscure.

Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.

I don't like to repeat myself.

I don't talk in sound bites.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

The perfection of style consists in the use of the exact speech necessary to convey the sense in the fewest words consistent with perspicuity, at the same time having regard to appropriateness and harmony of expression. Its greater excellencies are directness, accuracy, appropriateness and perspicuity.

Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about.

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.

I'm not very articulate.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

I don't quite know why, but I am long-winded.