A Quote by Victor Hugo

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo
French - Novelist
February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

Helen Vendler

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in judgment. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error, a life-style. In this particular life-style the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying," but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.

Philip K. Dick

I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.

Anita Shreve

I try to teach my students style, but always as a part of life, not as ornament. Style has to come out of communicating coherent thought, not in sticking little flowers on speeches. Style and substance and a sense of life are the things literature is composed of. One must use one's own personality in relationship to life and language, of course, and everyone has such a relationship. Some people find it, some don't find it, but it's there.

Marguerite Young

What is revolutionary today is that we're using precision-guided munitions. And instead of building individual weapons, we are building an industry and a philosophy, the culture of precision. You saw Desert Storm. Precision works.

George Friedman

The science of style as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style.

Thomas de Quincey

There was a period in my life when I was very young that I wrote a sonnet a day just to learn concision in writing.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction.

Joseph Brodsky

meditation is a way of developing clarity, which allows us to see the precision of daily life situations as well as our thought process so that we can relate with both of them fully and completely.

Chogyam Trungpa

We are often struck by the force and precision of style to which hard-working men, unpracticed in writing, easily attain when required to make the effort. As if plainness and vigor and sincerity, the ornaments of style, were better learned on the farm and in the workshop than in the schools. The sentences written by such rude hands are nervous and tough, like hardened thongs, the sinews of the deer, or the roots of the pine.

Henry David Thoreau

Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace.

William Safire

The most important thing in life is style. That is, the style of ones existence-the characteristic mode of ones actions-is basically, ultimately what matters. For if man defines himself by doing, then style is doubly definitive, because style describes the doing.

Tom Robbins

Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.

Robert Bresson

Each guy on the team had to make a decision about what life style he was going to live down the road. I made the choice to get better and more responsible.

Karch Kiraly

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.

Henri Matisse

Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do. It's a decision about Who You Are. When you see this, when you understand it, everything changes. You begin to see life in a new way. All events, occurrences, and situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do.

Neale Donald Walsch

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