Quotes About Precision

I've learned that football is a stupid sport for intelligent people because the simplest things are truly also the most difficult to get right.

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

I continue to be drawn to clarity and simplicity. 'Less is more' remains my mantra.

Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

One time, that true brass thimble.

Great results, can be achieved with small forces.

When the speed of rushing water reaches the point where it can move boulders, this is the force of momentum. When the speed of a hawk is such that it can strike and kill, this is precision. So it is with skillful warriors—their force is swift, their precision is close. Their force is like drawing a catapult, their precision is like releasing the trigger.

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. Therefore the good fighter will be terrible in his onset, and prompt in his decision.

There is less precision in the Chinese than I have thought it well to introduce into my translation, and the commentaries on the passage are by no means explicit. But, having regard to the context, we can hardly doubt that Sun Tzu is holding up I Chih and Lu Ya as illustrious

Knowledge clinched or confirmed always feels like a coin falling into the right slot, a ball landing in a basket, a peg knocked into its proper hole.

re: cutting glass...You have to be in command of the glass, telling it where to release its hold on itself. Just like life. Otherwise it will splinter.

Precision in language was the key to clarity. Specificity

Precision of thought comes from a tranquil mindset. A presenter can have a competitive edge if they are unmoved by the jabs and provocations that are directed at them"

In chess you might find a good move. Then you might find a better move. But take your time. Find the best move.

I could break things in a thousand ways--anything from surgical dismantling as meticulous as a bomb squad work to wrecking ball style mass destruction. If I broke a thing, it stayed broke. If I broke one of my things, I lived with the pieces, or replaced it.

Sometimes respecting people means making sure your systems are inclusive such as in the case of using AI for precision medicine, at times it means respecting people's privacy by not collecting any data, and it always means respecting the dignity of an individual.

There's something very satisfying about numbers. Numbers are what they are. They're very straightforward. Unlike people.

There's something very satisfying about numbers. Numbers are what they are. They are very straightforward. Unlike people.

If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.

La buena prosa debe ser tan precisa como el verso, e igual de sonora" escribe Flaubert.

Joyce llevó a la prosa de ficción la precisión y la riqueza de recursos retóricos de la poesía. Supo, como había sabido Flaubert, que la poesía es lo que rescata y eleva el lenguaje de la novela.

as one looks instinctively at the clock: that must be right. That will tell me where I am

definitions demand reduction, and reduction demands going to a lower rung.

The acute flavoring that fear gives a dish is indescribable. Never in my life have I tasted with such precision the delicately mingled flavors of garlic and herbs, the subtle aromatic savor of wine. The brilliant, heightened flavor was unbelievably delicious.