Quotes About Precision

The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

LIKE OTHER THINGS ABOUT HER, MARY ANN'S MENSTRUAL cycle was so regular that Mussolini might have included it on his train schedules.

Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.

Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

No se fíe nunca de las impresiones generales, amigo mío, y concéntrese en los detalles.»

You have an extraordinary genius for minutiae

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.

The more haste, the less speed

It's no picnic, your Russian grammar; you have to mind your p's and q's.

American Precision Museum, in Windsor, Vermont

In Japan it is more: precision in all things—not least in everyday railway services of such legendary punctuality that an apology had to be offered late in 2017 when an express left twenty seconds early—can be thought of as part of the national religion.

Non avevo idee sovversive, anzi, non avevo affatto idee, su nulla; ma per tutto il giorno mi allenavo a riflettere, a comprendere, a criticare, e mi ponevo domande; cercavo con precisione la verità: questo scrupolo mi rendeva inadatta alle conversazioni mondane.

Perché le parole, questa precisione brutale che maltratta le nostre complicazioni?

She bought a budget-plan account book and made her budgets as exact as budgets are likely to be when they lack budgets.

Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details. My friend Watson could tell you that I spent a whole morning in that exercise. It is no easy matter, and requires a strong and practiced arm.

I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a writer telling a story without concern for precision or freshness in the use of language. Some of this storytelling reads as if it were spoken rather than written, stuffed with tired images that pop into the writer's head because they are so familiar. The top of the head is fit for growing hair, but not for generating fine prose.

Diction involves the choice of words for their precise meaning and sound, the arrangement of those words, and their selection for effect.

If life has taught me anything, it's don't ever assume. Nail it down. Get things clear.

To speak much is one thing; to speak to the point another!

A flawless cup: how delicate and fine The flowing curve of every jewelled line! Look, turn it up or down, 'tis perfect still-- But holds no drop of life's heart-warming wine.

The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places spring to life as if the reader was in their presence.

Reality so often fails when it comes to small, satisfying details, she thought.

A well hit golf shot is a feeling that goes up the shaft, right through your hands and into your heart.