Quotes About Precision

All sports are time control demonstrations.

The surgeries were the hardest scenes for me because it's literally balancing so many balls in the air, at the same time, and each surgery is different.

For years I did take my time, but that was because I hated waiting to hit shots - I adopted a pace where I didn't have to stand by my ball and wait.

You only hit a straight ball by accident. The ball is going to move right or left every time you hit it, so you had better make it go one way or the other.

I was always determined that races should begin on time and I never deviated from that policy.

Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time.

90 percent of the time the terms are misused or unnecessary. Not every image obtained from a computer is a screen shot.

Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise

I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details.

If you're going to do something, make it right and make it as good as you can. Don't waste anybody's time, especially your own.

Time is a slippery concept, and we are often wrong about it... All too often we find ourselves looking in the right places at the wrong times.

At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net.

Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately undermines the movie.

Then why are we being shot at? (Syd) 'Cause the sonofabitch can't tell time. (Steele)

Only God gets things right the first time.

I can always make things longer than I intend for them to be, but cutting things down is just brutal. It's like cutting off your fingers every time you lose a word.

Unfortunately, at this moment in time, Robbie Keane can't hit a barn door for us.

My grandfather gave me a watch. It doesn't have any hands or numbers. He says it's very accurate. I asked him what time it was. You can guess what he told me.

I'm a perfectionist about being on time.

Particularly [Alfred] Hitchcock, who takes his time with everything he says. There's a controlling way in how he speaks because he takes his time to finish all his sentences.

Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time.

Tom is back on a flight at 6:15 P.M. That is 6:15. Do you get it? Not 6:00 P.M. but 6:15 P.M. And do you know how many minutes that is? I do. I have also become a Time Lord.

Shooting stuff on horseback is more complicated and time consuming than anything else.

Discipline is doing what you are supposed to do in the best possible manner at the time you are supposed to do it.