Quotes About Precision

Today's philosophy questions are tomorrow's precision science experiments.

In a way the philosopher and the barber are of the same guild; the barber cuts hair and the philosopher splits hairs.

A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.

In no time, the platoon were on their feet in front of him, formed up into two ranks, and it struck him suddenly, and probably for the first time in his military career, that these men with their drilled precision were dead parts of dead machines that didn't produce anything.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work until he finds some kind of perfection in his work. You can't have blood splashing all over the place. Things must be done very cleanly.

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.

Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting.

La paura serve. Intanto è una forma di rispetto e anche di reverenza dovuta all'immensità del luogo che si attraversa. Il timore è la premessa della concentrazione. Non intralcia le mosse, ne aumenta la precisione.

The non-physicist finds it hard to believe that really the ordinary laws of physics, which he regards as the prototype of inviolable precision, should be based on the statistical tendency of matter to go over into disorder.

Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they're no good.

Drive for show, putt for dough.

Whenever a tool is handled with ease and with a minimum of false motions, so that it will produce accurate and satisfactory results, it is handled in the right way. The constant aim of every carpenter, especially the apprentice, should be to eliminate false motions in everything he does." — Carpenter's Tools, H. H. Seigele

The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.

During the peak of my career, I used to pick the ball as soon it was released from the bowler's hands. And I hit the ball through the line.

Science cannot progress without reliable and accurate measurement of what it is you are trying to study. The key is measurement, simple as that.

I am not a bomber. I'm more about precision and being target-oriented. I have to rely on all parts of my game firing if I'm going to win.

I really rely on knowing how to apply make-up properly, rather than slapping it on and hoping for the best.

Funding that is focused on the ability to diagnose diseases precisely will just have inestimable value because that's the gate through which precision medicine has to go. Unless you can diagnose the disease precisely, care has to remain in the hands of expensive institutions and expensive caregivers.

When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.

You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.

I love anything by Joan Didion. Incidentally, she was one of the local moms when I was growing up in Point Dume. She always reminded me a little bit of my mother, so I feel a great affinity. I love the precision of Didion's writing. There's a construction and a craftsmanship to her sentences that's imbued with so much emotion.

Driving a forklift is kind of like riding a bicycle. You've either got forklift skills or you don't, and I can remove somebody's molars with a forklift.

I'm not a huge fan of eye shadow. You spend 20 minutes working on it and then make one mistake and have to remove it all! I'd rather play up my eyes with winged eyeliner.