Quotes About Precision

This advice—be clear about whom you serve—appears straightforward, but it is surprising how many leaders allow their answer to be vague, imprecise, or, most damaging of all, complex.

A close scrutiny of excellence, however, reveals that our edge—our particular genius—is precise. We each have specific areas where we consistently stand out, where we can do things, see things, understand things, and learn things better and faster than ten thousand other people can.

One boy had drawn a perfect isosceles triangle on every single page- meticulously, it was emphasized. Meticulously was a chilling touch: meticulousness, we knew, was just one step away from full-blown lunacy.

so hard, sometimes, to tag those memories accurately.

I love mathematics not only because it is applicable to technology but also because it is beautiful.

My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer.

One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.

Electric clocks reveal to you Precisely when your fuses blew.

I am positive that in the vast majority of cases we are hammering nails with microscopes.

Concentrate on the correct movements each time you exercise, lest you do them improperly and thus lose all the vital benefits of their value.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

The best shooters shoot the exact same way every single time they look at the basket.

Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.

The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late.

Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.

Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time.

You just have to press the right keys and the right pedals at the right time and the music plays itself.

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

We live in a time of the greatest precision and of maximum contrasts: photomontage offers us a means to express this. It shows ideas: photography shows us objects.

The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.

Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.

There's only one moment in which you can arrive in time. If you're not there, you're either too early or too late.

It is always cheaper to do the job right the first time.

The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time