Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.”
Charles Mingus
“The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.”
George Elliot
“Health is not valued till sickness comes”
Thomas Fuller
“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease”
William Osler
“There’s nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact that you’re making it up as you go along.”
Ben Aaronovitch, British author
“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who instead of aiming a single stone at an object takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.”
Samuel Johnson
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
Hans Hofmann
“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.”