Quotes About Precision

Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.

To me, drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time.

A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

The serve, I think, is the most difficult, you know, in terms of coordination, because you got the two arms going, and you got to toss it up at the right time so.

Machines are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.

One hundred and eighty, divided by three, is one dart at a time

The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.

Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.

The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within bounds of the court; failing this, within the borders of the neighborhood.

I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.

I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.

I hate to lose time on the set. On the set, you have to go at a good pace, because the clock is your master. For that reason, I have to know exactly what I'm trying to get beforehand.

You practice with wet balls all the time.

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Football is simple, you're either on time, or you're too late. If you're too late then you have to leave earlier.

Everybody makes mistakes. You have to be careful when you make your mistakes. Now is not a good time to make a mistake.

I'm not good with time. Like, if I ask you the time and you say A quarter to 2, I wouldn't know. Why can't you just say 2:30?

Chess is a time game, it's a game of patience. That pretty much defines how I run the ball.

You can not define being exactly on time.

First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control.

Waste not your time on broad sketches in color.

Even Einstein had to rely for his time on his clock.

I'm obsessed with being on time. If you say, "Let's meet up at 10 a.m.," I will be there 15 minutes early. Always.

I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe.