Quotes About Precision

This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal.

Losing control of your pick on stage sucks, so I scratch some deep X's into both sides of my pick with something sharp, like a dart.

It is like any sport. You practise thousands of times and you miss the simplest ball and you don't understand why. But that's why snooker is so special, because all of sudden you can lose everything.

Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center.

When I'm in the kitchen, measuring the amount of sugar, flour or butter I need for a recipe or cracking the exact number of eggs - I am in control.

A good typeface is like a well-crafted English or Italian suit: it always looks perfect.

The numbers don't lie, so make sure to come in with an open mind when it comes to building your bag. For example, the brand that helps you drive it longer and straighter might not suit you best when it comes to your short game.

Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.

Any type of animation, it could be really super crude or very sophisticated, it doesn't mean anything if we don't make this point in this shot, this one here and this one here. There's the saying, 'One shot, one thought.' It's pretty much a true way to go.

I'm super OCD, so everything is clean.

The market needs a super car with no excuses.

That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances.

Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.

If It's Optic White, It's the Right White

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you have omitted every word that he can spare.

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

We want the Exact and the Vast; we want our Dreams, and our Mathematics.

Simplicity could only have been bought at a great price in accuracy.

If there are spelling and grammatical errors, assume that the same level of attention to detail probably went into the gathering and reporting of the facts given on the site.

She had a very thin face like the dial of a small clock seen faintly in a dark room in the middle of a night when you waken to see the time and see the clock telling you the hour and the minute and the second, with a white silence and a glowing, all certainty and knowing what it has to tell of the night passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.

outside, the clear-cut strokes of the town clock counting

exactitude in some small matters is the very soul of discipline.

When Germans start being accurate, there's no end to it!

Perspicuity demands the clearest expression of thought conveyed in unequivocal language, so that there may be no misunderstanding whatever of the thought or idea the speaker or writer wishes to convey.