Quotes About Precision

Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability.

Elevate those guns a little lower.

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

I'm the kind of person that if I try to throw it hard, it doesn't come out as good. So my whole thought process is to stay smooth, stay on top of the ball, and just get my hand out in front.

Our boxing is not like the men's. It's more thoughtful, more technical. It's not just, 'Get in there and hurt someone.'

Sometimes the hardest part I think for actors on '24' is some of the jargon and getting the ideas and the thoughts and the information out quickly enough and succinctly enough and clearly enough.

A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.

Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.

In a small lab, if you make a mistake, you can go in the next day and fix it. But here, when you are committed to spending a hundred thousand or a million dollars, you can't fix it later. You need to have a system of checks and balances internally. In particle physics, that's just part of the structure.

It's always funny to watch the scene that you know took a thousand takes.

I know that much of the structure and plan of the universe is beyond my understanding and not at all similar to anything of our earthly world that I have experienced so far. I marvel at the intellect and attention to detail, the precision manifested by the workings of this great and often unseen force of which we are all a part.

I know that much of the structure and plan of the universe is beyone my understanding and not at all similar to anything of our earthly world that I have experienced so far. I marvel at the intellect and attention to detail, the precision manifested by the workings of this great and often unseen FORCE of which we are all a part.

If you goal is to achieve precision and concision, begin by pruning the big limbs. You can shake out the dead leaves later.

Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to what is. Neither of them can tolerate capricious subjectivity because both are subject to their criteria of truth. Both require precision, order, and discipline because no comprehensible statement can be made without these. Both accept the sensory world as what the Middle Ages called signatura regrum, the signature of things, but in quite different ways.

In coding, as in carpentry, you need the right tool for the job.

Anyone can be a photographer, even a monkey can be taught to do that, but a developer, no. It is the work of real craftsmen, exactly like an engraver, a real profession.

And these blast points, too accurate for Sand People. Only Imperial stormtroopers are so precise.

If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit and run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light at the dug out camera.

The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.

Exactitude is the lowest form of pictorial gratification.

I knew that Malcolm X had an almost fanatical obsession about time. I have less patience with someone who doesn't wear a watch than with anyone else , for this type is not time-conscious, he had once told me.

Just dumb enough to be fearless, just bright enough to be dangerous, and a dead shot.

Do it fast, simple, and right the first time (and did we mention fast?).

Let nothing be done rashly, and at random, but all things according to the most exact and perfect rules of art.