Quotes About Precision

Excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over again. You can hit a half-court shot once. That's just the luck of the draw. If you consistently do it... that's excellence.

The bottom line is that your performance is made in the editing room.

Part of the Hong Kong style is the fact that a lot of the performers can perform the moves, and we don't over-rehearse this stuff.

Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.

Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day.

Kan baik belum tentu benar juga belum tentu tepat. Malah bisa salah pada waktu dan tempat yang tidak cocok.

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

Nail it, and it's astounding how exciting simplicity can be.

No ruses, no tools ,but tactic makes a task truly top class.

One of the finer arts in tactic is to pay attention to subtlety.

If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

A minimal error at the start leads to a wide divergence in the distance

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.

Anticipate leveling off to end up at the desired altitude without busting through it. Use the 10 percent rule of thumb. If climbing at 500 feet per minute, start to level off when 50 feet below the desired altitude. If climbing 1,000 feet per minute, start to level off 100 feet below the desired altitude. If climbing 5,000 feet per minute, you're not flying a helicopter. Ease

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.

Actually, performing is a lot like golf. You are alone, so vulnerable.

The aim of tai chi is not to strike first to gain dominance over an opponent, but to wait and hit at the right moment.

I make singers sing every note fully and wait till they hit the right note.

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

I love musicals, but I find it's just so deadening. You know, 30 takes, you do a little piece here and a little piece there. There's hours and hours of waiting. And to me, that's as far away from real performance as you can get.

Glass really rewards risk. A lot of times with glass, you're just waiting for the piece to cool down or for some temperature to adjust, and there's split seconds where you've got a fraction of a second where you get to make a move a particular way, and you don't get to repeat it if you do it wrong.