Quotes About Precision

Imagine how tricky it would be to bake a cake if the recipe called for 45 minutes in the oven, and you had to figure out if those were nominal minutes or inflation-adjusted minutes.

Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.

Get rid of half the words on each page, then get rid of half of what's left.

A lack of clarity is food for failure."

The only way to reduce the variability in the estimate is to reduce the variability in the project.

Cold allowed precision, heat threw caution aside and plunged in rampantly. Cold was the process of deliberation and planning, heat the result of unbridled passion. Passion was fine, but only when controlled and channeled properly.

But we're assassins: when we make mistakes, people live

Consumers of psychological change advice should demand broadly useful methods of change that work, and that do so through change processes that have precision, scope, and depth.

Precision is a precise art. Poignancy is pre-eminent and precludes prevarication.

I don't slack in my punches.

When I produce a record, I roll up my sleeves; I'm not one of those passive guys. I really get in there and make sure every note is measured. I tell the bass player, 'You have to play it like this,' or I tell the drummer, 'It's got to be like this.'

Games are often won or lost on the free-throw line. This isn't about slick moves or great skills. It's about practice, muscle memory, and being able to keep a cool head under pressure.

There is nothing in the world more perfect than a slide rule. Its burnished aluminum feels cool against your lips, and if you hold it level to the light you can see God's most perfect right angle in each of its corners.

The slide is tennis.

Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.

When I dance, people are watching for a slight mistake. I don't want them to see any.

Despite the name, 'lift and coast' does not mean cruising. You're trying to be as fast as you can, and you're still going through the corner on the limit, but you have to approach the corner slightly differently; otherwise, you won't make the end of the race.

I'm a perfectionist, and I like to do each scene slightly differently every time.

It's a slim margin of error in this league.

I can slip a punch, not by three inches, but by a centimetre. Just have it brush past me. And raise an eyebrow at the same time.

I've always been very attentive to detail. It's a characteristic that drives some people crazy. But on the other hand, when people around me are sloppy, that drives me crazy.

You can't be a sloppy football team and be successful in the NFL.

I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking.

The Wii is fun, but nothing feels all that accurate or precise. I don't want to play an action game with controls that sloppy.