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 shall be so brief that I have already finished.
Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.
If you would be pungent, be brief.
You can suffocate a thought by expressing it with too many words.
Brevity: To say at once whatever is to be said.
All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.
He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.
A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.
[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
The way Singaporeans talk is they use less words.
He spoke in telegram-as if every word he used cost five bucks, and he only had a twenty in his wallet.
