Quotes About Precision

James, you ought to discover some day that words have an exact meaning.

People use the word "goal" when they are talking about aspirations or outcomes. If someone says "goal," you can't be sure what they are talking about since the word is ambiguous. For that reason, "goal" is not part of the vocabulary in Behavior Design. Use either "aspiration" or "outcome" for precision.

Sensitivity is not weakness or vulnerability. It is clarity of perception and allow judicious, precise action.

We want a system that creates the same exact sandwich, very rapidly and very consistently, every single time.

Once we all have our genomes, some of these extremely rare diseases are going to be totally predictable.

It's important not to lose a ball. It's rare for the team to lose the ball. You have to be careful.

Copy editors are very important and too rarely praised.

I try and get it right the first time. I may rewrite a sentence four or five times, but I rarely go back and kill a whole page and rewrite it.

Going from an error rate of 25 meters in GPS to 2.5 meters is huge. Going to 25 centimeters is going to matter just as much.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

I use the golden ratio to create the perfect shape on my clients' faces.

You can't be giggling and joking when you miss a shot in the modern game - not like the way when Ray Reardon used to do.

Ray Clemence was the best in the world at having nothing to do for 89 minutes and then in the 90th minute making a great save.

I don't like to guess. Just react. Some guys are guess hitters. I just could never do it. If you guess and guess wrong, you have no shot of hitting anything else.

If I think I will get the ball, I go out. I can't stop halfway because the goal is empty and the player would have the opportunity to shoot. You make the reaction, and then, of course, you have to be sure to get the ball. But it's years of practice. You can't say from one day to the other, 'Now I will do it,' you know? You have to feel it.

People know accuracy when they read it; they can feel it.

I have to be careful. My readers are very detail-oriented, and if I make a mistake they'll call me on it.

Everybody has to be accountable on every play. The main thing is that we have to do our job. Going through all of the keys, making sure we are making the right reads, blocking the right person and getting the right route depth. Everything.

You know what never gets schemed or what never gets stymied? Going through your reads and completing balls.

I use a system called Vector Green Reading, which applies science to the green reads.

When they came to you for your line, you had to be ready and you had to get it in one.

Being a defender of Real Madrid means being able to make very few mistakes.

I remember hitting the ball, and I didn't even realise where it went, and then I turned over, and I see the official bending down holding his eye.

I am a stickler for damn good writing.