Quotes About Precision

I do have weird habits when I'm directing, or even think as a director, like when I move a cup, I make sure to put it back in the exact right place.

To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.

I get up in the morning and get to bed at night, and between, I bring equivalent dedication to everything I do, with a horror of the inaccurate and the half-baked.

Scoring from a metre out is just as beautiful as lobbing a goalkeeper from the halfway line.

You continue to try to hammer out fastball command the best you can.

You young people learned spelling by the 'Close Enough' method.

The gun has a name, made up of words and numbers. A measurement in millimeters, a decimal point, all befitting a precision instrument. 'Call it a rifle', I was told... But it is a gun.

In carpentry, they say, "Measure twice, cut once." With data, "Think twice, calculate once.

Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect.

Not, is it simple, but, is it clear.

In Baltimore it's 6:42!

The best match I ever played in was the U.K. championship final against John Parrot in 1992. I won 16-14 and I felt like I could pot anything from anywhere.

I didn't do anything spectacular when I won the Open in 2001. I hit the ball good, not great. I putted good, not great, but I think I missed maybe two putts inside eight feet all week.

I'm a 'frotteur,' someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible. Does that word in this sentence have any electric potential? Does it do anything? Too much electricity will make your reader's hair frizzy. There's a question of pacing.

We forget the little things, so it's no wonder some of us screw up the big things.

It's wonderful to work on footage by someone who understands how to get it to cut right, which a lot of directors don't.

My staff's job is to adjust to circumstances with technical precision and artful grace so that every patron has a wonderful experience.

OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.

Wood carving is such an amazing skill and very underrated; once you cut it, it's hard to go back.

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.

A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety of other productive pursuits, activities, and jobs. Patterns help to avoid waste and unwanted deviations and facilitate uniformity that is appropriate and beneficial.

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis.

When we used the small-faced racquets and wood racquets, we had to use every part of the court.