Quotes About Precision

All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.

So many of my paintings, people would be like, 'What more do you have to do?' But the smallest little things make all of the difference.

What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.

I've got to be smarter with the football.

The smartest thing a filmmaker can do is to become a good editor.

Personally, whichever ball is lose, I will smash that ball.

When you are not having the best of moments in front of goal, just smash it down the middle.

I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It's all so precise with Delia, and it makes cooking seem so inaccessible.

Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.

You have to let the car do the job and try to trust it, try to understand what you are doing, try to be smooth, and try to be incredibly smart to set the car up, because that is the most important part.

Archer has a loose-limbed approach in a run-up that is not very long. He gets into a good position at the crease and releases the ball late from a very high action. He snaps the ball down at genuine pace. He has rhythm to his bowling.

I'm no snapshot artist. I make very careful choices always, even if I'm using a 35mm camera.

Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination.

I'm practical, very data-driven, and process-oriented. If I look at a radar and see a giant green blob coming toward me, I'm thinking it's probably going to snow.

We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels.

when a baby or a child or an adult is on the table with his or her chest open, disaster is never more than a breath away, no matter how routine or simple the case may be. One small breath.

What is the good of power and precision if the price we pay is ugliness and death? What is the good of thinking, if we have no idea how to live?

It is a waste to use too many words when just a few will do.

Cuando alguien visitaba a Einstein en su casa, este les preguntaba: «¿Existe la luna porque un ratón la mira?». Pero, por mucho que la teoría cuántica violase el sentido común, algo había de verdad en ella: era experimentalmente correcta. Sus predicciones han sido corroboradas con hasta once decimales, lo que la convierte en la teoría más precisa de todos los tiempos.

Say only what you mean.

Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was this hiatus that gave him no rest.

And suddenly he realized that all his life he had done nothing but talk, write, lecture, concoct sentences, search for formulations and amend them, so in the end no words were precise, their meanings were obliterated, their meaning lost, they turned into trash, chaff, dust, sand; prowling through his brain, tearing at his head, they were his insomnia, his illness.

I always listen to what I can leave out.

Sloppy writing reflects sloppy thinking.