Less (Nesman) is More

[bcholmes]

I've been thinking about economy. As in, conservative use. Less-ness, man.

Dictionary.com gives this definition:

4. Efficient, sparing, or conservative use: wrote with an economy of language.

I know that I tend toward understatement, rather than overstatement.

If I'm not sure whether or not saying something is a Good Idea, I'll err on the side of not saying.

I once remarked to a friend of mine that the phrase "awkward silence" described a state that wasn't naturally-occuring in the BC-verse.

I've had to work to curb this tendency in a very large number of circumstances. Work is a big one. Learning to repeat stuff until it sinks in with people has been really foreign. Me, I live in this quotation:

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, moves on

  - the rubaiyat, omar khayyam