At one point in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, hobbits Merry and Pippin are trying to get the Ents to help them out, but (among other things) they are struggling with communication. The Ent they befriended, Treebeard, tells them that “it takes a long time to say anything” in their language, and so they “never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.”
I think of this quote a lot at about this time in the Major League Baseball season. In a few days, we will reach the mathematical halfway point in the year.