Andrew Cuomo Quotes

The best way to be boring is to include everything.

If you can't say it in three minutes, I don't want to know about it.

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

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

Any order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood

I'm able to think more clearly when I don't have clutter and stuff around.

One of the problems of modern society, or the post-Internet age, is that there are so many things bombarding us that we could care about. I think it's more important than ever to really get clear and focus on what's worth caring about and what's just noise or distraction.

The abundance of books is distraction

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.

Always listen for what you can leave out.

I only do one thing at a time; otherwise, I get confused and then I can't trick you.

There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something, is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size.

More matter with less art.

Another cause of confusion, and the resulting feelings of nervousness, hurry, and anxiety, is the absurd habit of trying to do many things at one time.

An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.

Now I will have less distraction.

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

My mom would always say this thing about writing - and I've taken it into account in a lot of things in my life - which is just, "Make it shorter." Figure out what you are truly saying, whittle it down to the essence, then say that.

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

Took me a while to get to the point today, but that is because I did not know what the point was when I started.

Be brave enough to turn away from shiny objects, and toward the light that makes them shine.

If You can't tell it to me in one sentence, they can't put it in TV Guide.