Control Quote by Robert Greene

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even…

— Robert Greene

“LAW 4 Always Say Less Than Necessary When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you…

— Robert Greene

Some simple words we tell have lasting impressions on them

— Tallent Jnr Chingwah III

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

— Joseph Joubert

My writing tends to become very dense, so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes, words that seem superfluous are actually essential for the…

— Gretchen Rubin

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

— Dalai Lama

When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary…

— Horace

Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak…

— William Hazlitt

It seems that words get chalked off as something the person said, but isn't that what words are to begin with.

— Gayla Leach

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

— Joseph Joubert

Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would…

— William P. Alford

Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.

— Brian Tracy