Nick Lowe Quotes

It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.

Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.

I still remember the first acronym I learned, BLUF: Bottom Line Up Front. I still try to communicate that way. No reason to dance around getting to the point.

If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.

Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said? Of course the fact is that there is very little that needs to be said.

For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn't have to say.

I'm short and to the point.

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

Minimalism has a connotation of being reductive, and not in the best way. 'Brevetist' is a better term. I'm trying to be as concise as possible and still getting across to the reader. When information is delivered in that way, it is very satisfying to me.

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

I believe most things can be said in a few lines.

I say what I mean. I don't speak in code. That's why I am a star and ace communicator.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

Less is almost always better than more. Short words, short sentences, short speeches.

I believe that things can be expressed very powerfully through simplicity.

I'm very direct, I don't believe in wasting time, in wasting words.

I'm not the guy who will sit in a room with somebody who's using a bunch of big words and just act like I know what they're talking about, or sit on set with somebody and they'll be trying to explain something and not using layman's terms and I'll just say, "Hey, excuse me, what do you mean by that? Explain to me so I just understand."

Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less.

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.

I think precision in writing goes hand in hand with not trying to say everything. You try and say two-thirds, so the reader will involve himself or herself.

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

More matter with less art.