Quotes About Precision

Sometimes when you get eager, you get sloppy. Sometimes when you get sloppy, you get knocked out.

Sometimes you can get sloppy and control the ball right at your feet, and that gives the defenders a chance.

Things slow down, the ball seems a lot bigger and you feel like you have more time. Everything computes - you have options, but you always take the right one.

To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.

My game is - and I'm not saying I'm slow or anything like that, but my game is mental. My game is shooting; my game is efficiency. If I'm healthy, I feel like I can be effective for a long time.

Creating deluxe cuisine is like playing a sport. Always competitive. Always challenging. And if you slow down a bit, you can no longer return to the top level.

Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.

In all animation, if it's done quickly, you'll know it. And if you're very slow and careful with it, it's going to look a little more beautiful. It's just compressing time into seconds.

As the Earth continues to slow, leap seconds will grow more common. Eventually we will need one every year, and then even more. Scientists could have avoided these awkward skips by choosing instead to adjust the duration of the second itself. Who would notice? That is what they did, in fact, until 1955.

I'm a very careful, slow writer, and I think a lot of that comes from the care required to be a hand-printer, where if something isn't spaced out enough, you take little slivers of brass or copper and put them between each letter.

I think you just learn to maybe slow some of the key situations in the game down.

I don't care if it's the slow way; I just want to do it the right way.

I would say that I don't make music quickly; like, my process has been very slow, and my bar is very high, and I don't really rush to make music just to get something out there.

I always tell my employees, the busier it gets, the slower you should cook. When you run around like a crazy person, that's when things go wrong.

'Madame Bovary' advanced slowly, as slowly as it would have to have, given an author who held himself accountable to each word, that it be the right word, of which there could be only one.

I write slowly. I can't move on until I've got a paragraph right.

Even when we're keeping possession, I don't want to see the ball move slowly. What does that mean? When we pass it, we pass it with purpose.

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

There are no small accidents on this circuit.

A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter.

On grass, it can be the small things that decide a match.

I have no problem with anyone being precise about small things.

Peter Schmeichel could make the goal look much smaller when you glanced up to hit a shot.

I could throw the ball hard, but at this level if you're not accurate, it's easy for batters to light you up with home runs. That's when I started concentrating on making my movements more compact. It just seemed to me that smaller movements would produce the kind of pitching I desired.