Quotes About Precision

As the old saying went, Most people practice till they get it right. Rangers practice till they never get it wrong.

I don't plan to miss," she said. Will shrugged. "Nobody ever does.

Before you shoot your arrow, see it fly a thousand times in your mind.

An ordinary archer practices till he gets it right. A ranger practices till he never gets it wrong.

back on the other, pivoting the neat craft in her own length. Then both

That might be a bit of an exaggeration,' she said. 'I can really only knock the head off a gnat. We don't do eyeballs until fifth year.

Don't try to aim down the arrow shaft," he told her. "You have to sense where the arrow will go.

An ordinary archer practices until he gets it right. A Ranger practices . . .'?" He let the phrase hang in the air, waiting for them to finish it off. "Until he never gets it wrong

Until I get it right," she said. But he corrected her. "No. Until you don't get it wrong.

Zo eenvoudig is het?' vroeg Malcolm met een lachje. Will trok één wenkbrauw op. 'Ja, een fluitje van een cent. Als je tenminste eerst vijf jaar oefent om die pijl in dat gaatje te schieten!

An ordinary archer practices until he gets it right. A ranger practices until he never gets it wrong.

Diamond cut diamond.

Reproving with sharpness thus meant reproving with exactness and keen perception, not necessarily severely.

I pride myself, after long experience, that I can begin and stop weeping at the exact points demanded in the script.

Eats Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, by Lynne Truss.

Models need to be judged by what they eliminate as much as by what they include—like stone carving, the art is in removing what you do not need.

Haste maketh waste.

This hitteth the nail on the head.

A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime.

The computer is very good at solving the problem we have specified and asked it to solve, but less useful when we are not quite sure what the problem is.

Every step, every stage and every layer of every ingredient matters to us at Tres Amigos Grill.

There is also a running wobble between extreme precision, specious or otherwise, and approximation ("just over fifteen hundred", "just over sixty-nine percent"), so the whole risks annoying non-geek and ultra-geek readers, garnering the worst of both worlds.

When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to.

If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things.