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Quotes About Precision

The "Strongest Sword" is the blade that can protect what it wishes to protect and cut what it wishes to cut. A Blade that cuts whatever it touches cannot be considered a "Sword".
~ Eiichiro Oda
Success depends on the capacity to manipulate the obvious with calculated precision.
~ Elena Ferrante
De dónde llegan las fechas y a dónde van? Viajan un año entero y con la precisión de una saeta se clavan en el día señalado, nos muestran un pasado, un presente en el espacio, nos deslumbran y se apagan.
~ Elena Garro
When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk.
~ Eli Wallach
Someone said once, "If you want to fill a dozen milk bottles, you must not stand back and spray them with a hose. You can get them wet, but you won't fill them. You must take them one by one.
~ Anthony M. Coniaris
If you do things right, NOTHING will go wrong. Conversely if you do things wrong, NOTHING will be right.
~ Anthony Pan
Airy elaboration just loses everyone in a fog of words.
~ Anthony Weston
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
When a man spends the least possible number of movements over one definite action, that is grace.
~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Second, the purpose must be defined precisely, and not in a fashion that smuggles in the answer to the question before the decision-maker.
~ Antonin Scalia
Third, the purpose is to be described as concretely as possible, not abstractly.
~ Antonin Scalia
A dead monkey, still whole, still undecomposed, drifted back and forth with a certain precision upon those ripples and eddies without exit. . . . There we were: Ready to go and not going.
~ Antonio Di Benedetto
Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.
~ Antonio Porchia
That man is sharp who can say what he wants in a minimum of words.
~ Aristophanes
Novices in the art attain to finish of diction and precision of portraiture before they can construct the plot.
~ Aristotle
Dan Millman councils us that "every act is a deliberate act of will. Even when tying your shoes—tie them impeccably.
~ Arno Ilgner
I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It is called an eraser
~ Arnold Palmer
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
~ Arnold Palmer
I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser
~ Arnold Palmer
Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated
~ Arnold Palmer
Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.
~ Arsene Wenger
Golf is a game in which the ball lies poorly and the players well.
~ Art Rosenbaum
Uneven! Easy to say! As if you could always go straight to the point!
~ Arthur Adamov