Quotes About Precision

You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means you brain is receiving information from your body what the car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance.

You have to visualize a second or two ahead of your car what line you are taking, what you are going to do, before you get there because it comes too fast.

The ideal: to be able to repeat oneself like... Bach.

Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit — Life!

Cautious men have many adverbs, "usually," "nearly," "almost ": safe men begin, " it may be advanced " : you never know precisely what their premises are, nor what their conclusion is; they go tremulously like a timid rider; they turn hither and thither; they do not go straight across a subject, like a masterly mind.

Space has failed us, and we must be unmeaningly brief.

The words fell as the axe of a skillful woodman falls at the root of a young tree and brings it down at a single blow.

if I put something in the oven before it had come to temperature, or if I got the steam going before I had everything chopped, that sort of triviality (or so I thought) was precisely reflected in the color and shape of the final product.

There is no point in doing something unless you do it well.

Do not practice mistakes. Go slow enough that you almost never make a mistake.

I do what I've trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching. I watch it as it sails past me and lands in the catcher's mitt, a perfect and glorious strike three.

You don't swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.

Pens are too light.Take a chisel to write.

You may not even realize how much your off-the-rack clubs are affecting your game.

Mathematics is the music of reason.

When we're playing, I really shape my body to receive the ball - even before it gets to me.

To score goals, you need to receive the ball in advantageous positions.

Before I receive the ball I already know how that play is developing so I'm able to give rhythm to that play.

Playing receiver is an art form.

Cooking is not effortless. To get a recipe that feels effortless is really hard.

Just as the supposed number may differ from the true number by fully 100, 150, or even 200 in a flock of 600 sheep, so may I be even more out of my reckoning in the case of these very little animalcules.

Little things can make such a big difference during recording.

The thing that's cool about the recording booth is that it's so perfunctory, so cut-to-the-chase.

When Prince and James Brown were doing live sessions... recording a band is not easy. It's all delicate, important stuff you want to make sure you're doing the right way.