Audience Quote by Lawrence Lessig

Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the…

— Owen Feltham

It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

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

— Eric Hoffer

“No audience ever complained about a presentation or speech being too short”

— Stephen Keague

“If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do. My Princeton colleague Danny Oppenheimer…

— Daniel Kahneman

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

— Ira Hayes

Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.

— Gautama Buddha

It's really a trade-off: you're always having to decide whether you're going to say the more ambitious thing, and lose a little clarity -…

— Elif Batuman

It's so easy to use tired, shopworn figures of speech. I love using long, fancy words but have learned - mostly from writing my…

— Gretchen Rubin

In academics, it's getting your voice out that's important. It's getting somebody to listen to you. I had no problem with that. People were…

— Frances Arnold

Length of saying makes languor of hearing.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

— Jonathan Swift