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Quotes About Precision

My boy, the 'quenelles de sole' were splendid, but the peas were poor. You should shake the pan gently, all the time, like this.
~ Marie-Antoine Careme
You build a golf game like you build a wall, one brick at a time.
~ Tony Lema
The essence of fighting is the art of moving at the right time.
~ Bruce Lee
The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.
~ Laurence J. Peter
You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.
~ Harrison Ford
The only time I talk on the golf course is to my caddie. And then only to complain when he gives me the wrong club.
~ Seve Ballesteros
So if you do acrobatics things on the street with no other goal than showing off, please don't say it's parkour. Acrobatics existed long time ago before parkour.
~ David Belle
Every time I hit a shot, I feel like I am shaking hands with the flag stick.
~ Moe Norman
Time control directly influences the quality of play.
~ Boris Spassky
When you play against an experienced opponent who exploits all the defensive resources at his command you sometimes have to walk time and again, along the narrow path of 'the only move'.
~ David Bronstein
Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.
~ David Bowie
For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft
~ Jim Lovell
Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.
~ Charles James
Until we have established reliability there is no sense at all in wasting time trying to make the thing go faster.
~ Carroll Smith
A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
~ Carolyn Wells
It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
~ Bobby Jones
The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Drawing takes time. A line has time in it
~ David Hockney
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
All we did was to turn back the time to a photography of precision which is superior to the human eye.
~ Bernd Becher
If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth storey to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works.
~ Eugene Delacroix
If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular ruler.
~ Haruki Murakami
Don't give me timing, give me time
~ Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
~ Baltasar Gracian