Concise Message Quotes

Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.

Our platform should take up every one of the issues of the day. It should be so brief that the newspapers would publish it and people read it.

It's a sound bite. It's very of this age, because that's what people want.

If I can finish a cartoon in 20 minutes, then that's the ideal editorial cartoon - it's to the point.

Clarity of communication is important.

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

The Holy Spirit has a way of His own to say much in few words.

I try to be as clear as I can be.

I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

People want an easy sound bite.

Nobody wants to hear long speeches.

As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.

I don't have a lot of time in the sermon anyway. The sermon is only 25 minutes, which to me is frighteningly short. So I feel as if I need to get into that pretty quickly and make it as practical and accessible as possible.