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“... mathematics is very much like poetry ... what makes a good poem -- a great poem -- is that there is a large amount of thought expressed in very few words. In this sense formulas like or are poems.”

Amount Mathematics Formulas Few Words

Author:Lipman Bers

“My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life.”

Mankind Movement Ideals Words Divinity Manifest Few Words

Book:Personality Development

Source: Personality Development

“Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.”

Silence Silence Is Few Words

Book:The Golden Sayings of Epictetus In Plain and Simple English (Translated)

Source: The Golden Sayings of Epictetus In Plain and Simple English (Translated)

“Here is an example of Confucius sayings: "It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop." In a few words, Confucius teaches us about patience, perseverance, discipline, and hard work. But if you probe further, you will see more layers. Confucius' philosophies have significantly influenced spiritual and social thought. His views bear insight and depth of wisdom. You can apply his teachings in every sphere of life. Confucius' profound teachings are based on humanism.”

Ifs Long Doe Matter Hard Philosophy Spiritual Social Views Teach Teaching Example Hard Work Bears Discipline Profound Depth Perseverance Humanism Insight Spheres Layers Few Words

Author:Confucius

“Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.”

Writing Body Hours Your Body Guts Chairs Sweat Wrecks Few Words After Hours

Author:Norman Mailer

“Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.”

Thinking Feels Higher Deeper Substitutes Emphasis Few Words

Author:Elie Wiesel

“To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization.”

Men States Together Church Religious Institutions Gathering Malice Few Words Recapitulation Gathering Together

Book:The Conflict of Interpretations

Source: The Conflict of Interpretations

“Sometimes I just start humming something, find a melody I like a lot, and if it sticks around for a couple days, a few words will lock themselves into place. I might just get the first line. Then words just keep falling into the syllables. The choruses kind of write themselves and verses I have to work at a little bit.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Kind Littles Sometimes Might Fall Bits Lines Couple Little Bit Sticks Melody Verses Locks Chorus Syllables Few Words Humming

Author:Jack Johnson

“In the beginning we were creating our music, ourselves, every night . . . starting with a few outlines, maybe a few words for a song. Sometimes we worked out in Venice, looking at the surf. We were together a lot and it was good times for all of us. Acid, sun, friends, the ocean, and poetry and music.”

Sometimes Together Night Song Sun Drug Ocean Creating Starting Good Times Every Night Acid Outlines Venice Surf Few Words Lsd Poetry And Music

Author:Jim Morrison

“When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.”

Long Wanted Few Words

Author:Dejan Stojanovic

“Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb; the six months of rain and the six months of sun was the period of their common gestation. They needed only a few words and a few gestures to convey their meaning. They had graduated through the same fevers, they were moved by the same love and contempt.”

Men Love Age Past Common Sun Months Needed Periods Six Rain Moved Contempt Gestures Twins Six Months Womb Fever Few Words Same Love Gestation

Book:The Portable Graham Greene

Source: The Portable Graham Greene

“A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.”

Art Photography Understood Photographer Few Words

Author:Ernst Haas

“A wide range of quotations are necessary for the repertoire of a well-rounded speaker. Quotations are able to illustrate in a few words what is difficult to explain in many.”

Wells Able Difficult Wide Range Speakers Quotations Few Words Well Rounded

Author:Carolyn Warner

“For life is a trumpery thing at best, isn't it? A few moments, a few words, between dark and dark. But in true love you keep company with the Gods.”

Moments Life Is Dark Company Love You Few Words

Author:Winston Graham

“Depending on where I am in the process, sometimes I have a page count and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I have an hour count; sometimes I'm just happy to string a few words together. I do keep pretty rigorous hours, because otherwise you never get anything done.”

Sometimes Done Together Process Hours Pages Strings Few Words

Author:Alice Sebold

“I love songs because by nature they are concise; they sum up. I try to use as few words as possible. It's usually funnier that way, anyway.”

Way Trying Use Song Few Words Concise

Author:Cass McCombs

“My advice to young writers would be to write every day, even if it is only a few words. Get yourself on the habit of writing and it will become a lifelong one. And find a place to write where you are physically comfortable. You can't concentrate if you aren't. Ernest Hemingway could only write standing up, and Truman Capote could only write lying down!”

Ifs Writing Would Be Young Lying Advice Habit Comfortable Standing Where You Are Lifelong Few Words Young Writers Truman Lying Down

Author:Cassandra Clare

“If you can make a little painting for the ears with a few words, well, I like words; I like cutting them up and finding different ways of saying the same thing... I get into a spell, and it all comes easy. I don't labor over it. I go inside the song, I think you make yourself an antenna for songs, and songs want to be around you. And then they bring other songs along, and then they're all sitting around, and they're drinkin' your beer, and they're sleeping on the floor. And they are using the phone, they're rude, thankless little f---ers.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Wells Littles Different Song Easy Sleep Cutting Painting Findings Labor Ears Drinking Phones Beer Different Ways Over It Spells Rude Few Words Thankless Antenna

Author:Tom Waits

“A few words about ‘trannychasing.’ I am not a trannychaser. Ok, actually I am a trannychaser. No I am not. I am a trannycatcher! Just kidding!”

Few Words Just Kids

Author:Margaret Cho

“If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is a fossil of light and time.”

Ifs Light Asks Photograph Ask Me Fossils Few Words

Author:Daido Moriyama

“Read as few words as you like, and speak fewer, but act upon the law.”

Law Speak Fewer Few Words

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Sometimes music comes across to me just when I am sitting around doing nothing, and then the music makes me think of a few words I might have written.”

Thinking Sometimes Might Written Sitting Doing Nothing Sitting Around Few Words

Book:Starting At Zero: His Own Story

Source: Starting At Zero: His Own Story

“The lyrics aren't simple, either. They're extremely difficult because I'm trying to say complicated things in as few words as possible.”

Trying Difficult Simple Complicated Few Words Complicated Things

Author:Neil Diamond

“If one were to say but few words, though ones with meaning, one would do better than to say many that were only empty sounds, and just as easy to utter as they were of little use.”

Ifs Littles Use Easy Sound Empty Few Words

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.”

Men Way Play Character Communicate Few Words

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words.”

Speech Few Words

Author:Frank Muir

“My family didn't go to church. Once when I slept over at the house of a friend, her parents brought me to Sunday school with her. I was given this little pamphlet of tiny poems about the natural world, about butterflies and sunsets. My 7-year-old self was so astounded by how these few words were creating pictures and feelings in me.”

World Years Littles Self Feelings School House Given Parent Natural Church Creating My Family Tiny Sunset Sunday Butterfly Natural World Few Words Sunday School Old Self Astounded

Author:Cheryl Strayed

“I realize that labels are placed upon an individual to simplify him or her, but it is impossible to capture the essence of an individual by a few words.”

Individual Realizing Impossible Essence Labels Capture Simplify Few Words

Author:Joanna Lohman

“Sometimes people come and they have so much pain and confusion in their eyes... what to do? A few words is a little bit of balm but doesn't really solve the deep disease within.”

People Littles Sometimes Eye Pain Bits Disease Little Bit Solve Confusion Few Words

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“I've never been called a man of few words.”

Men Few Words

Author:Joe Biden

“I think that some of it is electoral - helping candidates that are willing to take dramatic actions, not just to say a few words about how climate change might be a problem.”

Thinking Helping Problem Might Action Willing Climate Climate Change Dramatic Candidates Few Words

Author:Bill McKibben

“My approach is not a scientific approach. For that, we have greater minds than mine. My approach is: I am in the possession of a text, it has survived so many centuries, and it is my task, my pleasure, to try to decipher it and find all the things that have been said about these few words by generations and generations of commentators. That is what I'm doing. I don't innovate anything. I'm just repeating.”

Trying Mind Has Beens Said Pleasure Greater Generations Century Mines Approach Tasks Possession Survived Commentators Few Words Decipher

Author:Elie Wiesel

“We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”

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Book:The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784

Source: The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784

“When I was a young kid, my dad, a man of few words, told my brother and me, "Boys, Christmas is about Jesus." I thought about what he said, and I began asking the Christmas questions. I've been asking them ever since. I love the answers I've found.”

Men Said Kids Young Found Jesus Answers Boys Brother Dad Asking My Dad My Brother Few Words

Author:Max Lucado

“It doesn't have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don't try to make them elaborate, this isn't a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak.”

Trying May Together Speak Voice Pay Attention Silence Stones Blue Thanks Pay Attention Weed Contests Patches Doorways Few Words Vacant Irises

Author:Mary Oliver

“Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.”

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Author:John Maynard Keynes

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

“Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.”

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Author:Anais Nin

“I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write.”

Writing Wells Doe Walks Journey Walking Wander Hiking Notebook Trekking Strolling Sauntering Few Words

Author:Mary Oliver

“Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.”

Writing Ends Speak Language Speech Understood English Language Few Words Ostentation Written Language Writing Words Language Words Plain Language Words You Speak

Book:Fruits of Solitude: In Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life

Source: Fruits of Solitude: In Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life

“When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.”

Politics Possibility Speech Get Away Here And There Tangled Few Words

Author:Dan Quayle

“As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.”

Mind Deals Talking Talent Faculty Few Words Great Minds Saying Nothing Talking Much

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.”

Wisdom Seems Wit Characteristics Few Words Saying Nothing

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”

“I'm not sure where I heard it or why I believed it but when I was in my mid-twenties, a few words changed my approach to and experience of prayer. The words were these: 'Every thought you think is a prayer. Every word you speak is a prayer. Every act in which you engage is a prayer, because the Spirit of God lives in you.' Now, how awesome is that?”

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Book:Every Day I Pray: Prayers for Awakening to the Grace of Inner Communion

Source: Every Day I Pray: Prayers for Awakening to the Grace of Inner Communion

“I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.”

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Book:The wit and wisdom of Mae West

Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West

“It's very interesting, the joke comes first and then the wording comes within five seconds, maybe ten seconds. My thing is to get the joke across in as few words as possible. However, sometimes a word that's not really needed does help the rhythm of it. It's a gut feeling.”

Firsts Doe Sometimes Helping Feelings Interesting Five Needed Ten Jokes Rhythm Guts Seconds Very Interesting Few Words Gut Feelings Wording

Author:Steven Wright

“With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.”

Soul Inspiration My Soul Thee Few Words

Author:Michelangelo

“Sometimes, life seems to have a higher meaning. Events unfold in uncanny sequences. Long-forgotten acquaintances turn up with news that changes lives. A stranger appears and speaks a few words of wisdom, solving a previously insoluble problem, or something in a recent dream transpires in reality. Suddenly the existence of God seems confirmed.”

“To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.”

Men Whole Duty Be Good Few Words

Author:Abigail Adams

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