Quotes About Precision

Water will run by rule; the actual sun / Will scrupulously rise and set; / No little man lives in the exacting moon / And that is that, is that, is that.

I am silver and exact.

Of course he will, he's a mathematics professor -he won't want to leave any loose ends.

Having top-of-the-line tools is imperative, but being the top-notch carpenter who masterfully uses those tools is even more critical.

We say we want the truth; what we mean is that we want to be correct. —Mihnea Moldoveanu

The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely

He told me the single most important thing for a hitter was "to get a good ball to hit.

I once heard that Lord Martin can recall the exact details of every race he's ever been in and all the mistakes the other skippers made, and he doesn't require a chart or tide table when he's at the wheel. He keeps everything stored in his head like a scientific tactician.

Adjust the viewfinder to your eyesight. This step is critical; if you don't set the viewfinder to your eyesight, subjects that appear out of focus in the viewfinder might actually be in focus, and vice versa. If you wear glasses while shooting, adjust the viewfinder with your glasses on — and don't forget to reset the viewfinder focus if you take off your glasses or your prescription changes.

Esa tendencia del hombre a terminar limpiamente lo que hace, sin dejar hilachas colgando

For me, science wasn't about the big picture but the small one—the

The easiest way to do anything is properly.

patient striving with tolerances in the quiet war against error.

Math. . . . [is] akin to poetry: a way of taking a big idea and condensing and honing it until it communicates exactly the right information.

Measurement, it's probably fair to say, is the cornerstone of knowledge.

Bir ?eyi yapman?n en çabuk, en kolay ve en ucuz yolu ilk seferinde düzgün yapmakt?r.

What in heaven's name was the real essence of this beauty? Was it the precision of nature with its physical laws, or was it nature's mercilessness, ceaselessly resisting man's understanding?

We can bring quality into the details of life if we remember to be and act with precision. If we can consciously be at that point where the horizontal force of active choice meets the vertical force of Being, a certain "something", larger than life, will be activated. This "something" can be felt in anything produced by the hands and hearts of a conscious human being – in works of art, in a well-tended garden, in food prepared with love.

His physics was good, but his arithmetic awful.

Every word, every brushstroke, every note from an artist should be deliberately so.- Kailin Gow on Efficiency

The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

My driving and irons are the best part of my game. Growing to be 5-foot-11 has certainly helped.

Here in Italy, football is more like a chess game. You have to think about every move.