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Poetry allows poets to convey complex feelings in a concise and artistic manner, making it an effective medium for self-expression and catharsis. – Oscar Auliq-Ice	added by Auliq-Ice 6 months ago
We wanted to make it concise because when people go through an event, the last thing they want to do is read through a 50-page document. – Frank DeAngelis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think this is the first big war in the digital age that has galvanized Americans' attention, and there's a quantum leap in the toys and tools journalists are using since the last big American war in 2003 in Iraq, but all of this sophisticated technology still relies on the basic journalistic values of accuracy, verification, and fairness. Journalists still gather news piece by piece, often through dogged shoe leather reporting, interviewing witnesses, sifting through information, questioning, it, testing it, authenticating it — and then summarizing, synthesizing and analyzing it all in a clear and concise way to keep the public informed. – Mark Feldstein	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year 2000 - to everyone who believes that wealth should be redistributed. And that message is clear and concise: Go to Hell. – P. J. O'Rourke	added by Normando 2 years ago
People that know me know that I have a nervous laugh and I wanted to give something short and concise and not engage in any way and just let them know and kind of be done with it. – Jason Rosenblatt	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It will put a premium on concise questions and concise answers. – Ian Gershengorn	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Were going to the public with things like published research papers and having raised enough money to really build some pilot programs. We have some really great data and ... we want it to be working first so that a lot of the questions were answered before we brought things to people by way of awareness, i think it just makes it that much more compelling and much more concise to bring it to people with the message being, Hey, this is not taking something that is zero to try to get it to five. This is something that is at 50 and we want to get it to 100. – John Mayer	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
This is the ‘ twitter ’ version of U.N. reform. It is very concise, therefore apparently less than robust. – Hugh Dugan	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We really didn’t market ourselves in a way that was conducive to growing our business, we were taking one job here, another job there -- we didn’t have a clear and concise business plan. – Sbastien Dupr	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
When presenting on-camera, shorter messages tend to work best. One of the most powerful but overlooked tools for concise on-camera communication is the teleprompter. Teleprompters keep you on point and on message. – Aaron Ralph Thomas	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
A clear, concise message that solved a need was key to those first sales, once I had the trust of my customers, the rest was history. – John Rushworth	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Systemic policy reforms are necessary to support the efforts of our social workers, supervisors and managers who are on the front lines protecting the Commonwealth's children, reducing caseloads, retaining and recruiting social workers and ensuring clear and concise policies for supervision and case management are all necessary to ensuring the agency is able to focus on its primary duty of keeping children safe. – Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I get better responses quicker than by picking up the phone, it’s partly because you can use smiley faces and not be so angry, which comes out over the phone in your tone of voice. At 140 characters, you have to be more concise and to the point. – George Hobica	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It's a slimmer silhouette -- much more concise and much more grown-up, it isn't a granola look, as one might say. – Lizzy Bowring	Found on CNN 9 years ago
[1. ] The era of appeasement must come to an end. The political and social demands that dissidents are making of the universities do not flow from sound basic educational criteria, but from strategic considerations on how to radicalize the student body, polarize the campus and extend the privileged enclaves of student power. [2. ] A concise and clear set of rules for campus conduct should be established, transmitted to incoming freshmen, and enforcedwith immediate expulsion the penalty for serious violations. [3. ] It is folly for universities confronted with their current crisis in our turbulent times to open their doors to thousands of patently unqualified students. [4. ] No negotiations under threat or coercion. [5. ] No amnesty for lawlessness or violence. [6. ] Any organization which publicly declares its intention to violate the rules of an academic community and which carries out that declaration should be barred from campus. [7. ] We must look to how we are raising our children. [8. ] We must look to the university that receives those children. Is it prepared to deal with the challenge of the nondemocratic Left?[9. ] Let us support those courageous administrators, professors and students on our college campuses who are standing up for the traditional rights of the academic community. – Spiro Agnew	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. – William Strunk Jr., Elements of Style	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Vigorous writing is concise. – William Jr. Strunk	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Poetry allows poets to convey complex feelings in a concise and artistic manner, making it an effective medium for self-expression and catharsis.

– Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
6 months ago

We wanted to make it concise because when people go through an event, the last thing they want to do is read through a 50-page document.

– Frank DeAngelis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think this is the first big war in the digital age that has galvanized Americans' attention, and there's a quantum leap in the toys and tools journalists are using since the last big American war in 2003 in Iraq, but all of this sophisticated technology still relies on the basic journalistic values of accuracy, verification, and fairness. Journalists still gather news piece by piece, often through dogged shoe leather reporting, interviewing witnesses, sifting through information, questioning, it, testing it, authenticating it — and then summarizing, synthesizing and analyzing it all in a clear and concise way to keep the public informed.

– Mark Feldstein

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year 2000 - to everyone who believes that wealth should be redistributed. And that message is clear and concise: Go to Hell.

– P. J. O'Rourke

added by Normando
2 years ago

People that know me know that I have a nervous laugh and I wanted to give something short and concise and not engage in any way and just let them know and kind of be done with it.

– Jason Rosenblatt

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It will put a premium on concise questions and concise answers.

– Ian Gershengorn

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Were going to the public with things like published research papers and having raised enough money to really build some pilot programs. We have some really great data and ... we want it to be working first so that a lot of the questions were answered before we brought things to people by way of awareness, i think it just makes it that much more compelling and much more concise to bring it to people with the message being, Hey, this is not taking something that is zero to try to get it to five. This is something that is at 50 and we want to get it to 100.

– John Mayer

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

This is the ‘ twitter ’ version of U.N. reform. It is very concise, therefore apparently less than robust.

– Hugh Dugan

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We really didn’t market ourselves in a way that was conducive to growing our business, we were taking one job here, another job there -- we didn’t have a clear and concise business plan.

– Sbastien Dupr

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

When presenting on-camera, shorter messages tend to work best. One of the most powerful but overlooked tools for concise on-camera communication is the teleprompter. Teleprompters keep you on point and on message.

– Aaron Ralph Thomas

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

A clear, concise message that solved a need was key to those first sales, once I had the trust of my customers, the rest was history.

– John Rushworth

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Systemic policy reforms are necessary to support the efforts of our social workers, supervisors and managers who are on the front lines protecting the Commonwealth's children, reducing caseloads, retaining and recruiting social workers and ensuring clear and concise policies for supervision and case management are all necessary to ensuring the agency is able to focus on its primary duty of keeping children safe.

– Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I get better responses quicker than by picking up the phone, it’s partly because you can use smiley faces and not be so angry, which comes out over the phone in your tone of voice. At 140 characters, you have to be more concise and to the point.

– George Hobica

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It's a slimmer silhouette -- much more concise and much more grown-up, it isn't a granola look, as one might say.

– Lizzy Bowring

Found on CNN
9 years ago

[1. ] The era of appeasement must come to an end. The political and social demands that dissidents are making of the universities do not flow from sound basic educational criteria, but from strategic considerations on how to radicalize the student body, polarize the campus and extend the privileged enclaves of student power. [2. ] A concise and clear set of rules for campus conduct should be established, transmitted to incoming freshmen, and enforcedwith immediate expulsion the penalty for serious violations. [3. ] It is folly for universities confronted with their current crisis in our turbulent times to open their doors to thousands of patently unqualified students. [4. ] No negotiations under threat or coercion. [5. ] No amnesty for lawlessness or violence. [6. ] Any organization which publicly declares its intention to violate the rules of an academic community and which carries out that declaration should be barred from campus. [7. ] We must look to how we are raising our children. [8. ] We must look to the university that receives those children. Is it prepared to deal with the challenge of the nondemocratic Left?[9. ] Let us support those courageous administrators, professors and students on our college campuses who are standing up for the traditional rights of the academic community.

– Spiro Agnew

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.

– William Strunk Jr., Elements of Style

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Vigorous writing is concise.

– William Jr. Strunk

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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