Quotes About Precision

When you're on the ice, you have very little time, you see very little, and everything happens really quick.

Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.

Surely an American doesn't want to get it wrong; if there is anything that England stands for, with its quiet central squares, its tweeds and twin sets and teas, the tight-lipped precision of its speech, it is that there is a right way to do things. This is where the right way has its ancestral home.

After all those years of people counting off seconds in her earpiece, I swear she has time wired into every bit of her body, so that it was almost exactly an hour when she climbed out.

You can do it the way you used to clear the dinner dishes when you were thirteen, or you can do it as a Japanese person would perform a tea ceremony, with a level of concentration and care in which you can lose yourself, and so in which you can find yourself.

A great help, thank you." Pitt calculated quickly. It must have been after ten, at this time of the year.

A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note, he said, but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.

Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.

the blade and began, very carefully, to make a shallow incision in the neck of a frog he had pinned, through its splayed feet, to the untreated wood.

Commoners always use too many words when they speak.

Specific is a kind of bravery Specific means accountable.

You use your tits the way a ninja assassin uses nunchuks.

You will have to be on your guard, and when your guard slips, you must recover." My fencing master used to say something eerily similar to that. And then she'd add that making a recover was much more difficult than simply doing the thing right the first time.

Michelangelo was once asked how he would carve an elephant. He replied, "I would take a large piece of stone and take away everything that was not the elephant.

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The tiger lies low not from fear, but for aim. ~Wren

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.

In your daytime life you have to be more strict.

I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions.

Because I have so much life on my pitches, I can get away with getting too much of the plate every now and then.

In fashion as in life, the right thing at the right time is the right thing. The right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.

Do a few simple things really well, instead of a lot of complicated maneuvers that can go wrong in the heat of battle.

Don't practice until you get it right, practice until you never get it wrong