Quotes About Precision

You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.

extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.

It's realizing that extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.

realizing that extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.

the secret to extraordinary results is to ask a very big and specific question that leads you to one very small and tightly focused answer.

The ballerina is a classic example. When the ballerina poses en pointe, she can appear weightless, floating on air, the very idea of balance and grace. A closer look would reveal her toe shoes vibrating rapidly, making minute adjustments for balance. Counterbalancing done well gives the illusion of balance.

With great athletes, their eyes aren't searchlights. They aren't even spotlights. They are laser beams.

One key lesson learned from mapping the genome is that access to a rough initial map proved crucial to developing more detailed maps of small individual human differences.

Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I..

Each shot is important

Hear how the use of the wrong word wakes you from your reading spell.

His sextant is a natural extension of any seaman navigator; virtually a part of him. Even today, in a maritime world of satellite precision fixing, the sextants are as much a necessity as they were aboard the Indiamen of old. No well-run merchantman will make an ocean passage without each and every one of her deck officers reporting to the bridge before midday, sextant in hand in preparation for 'sights'.

But as the seventeenth century wore on, precision observations greatly improved due to the invention of the telescope and an increasingly mature application of mathematics to describe the data, and led a host of astronomers and mathematicians – including Johannes Kepler, Galileo and ultimately Isaac Newton – towards an understanding of the workings of the solar system. This theory is good enough even today to send space probes to the outer planets with absolute precision.

Fancy has nothing to do with a good sword.

It takes a long time to write something that is easy to read.

Even a broken watch is correct twice a day.

It is a condition of wisdom in the archer to be patient because when the arrow leaves the bow, it returns no more. —SA'DI

The principle is this: When you write, you make a point not by subtracting as though you sharpened a pencil, but by adding. When you put one word after another, your statement should be more precise the more you add. If the result is otherwise, you have added the wrong thing, or you have added more than was needed. Erskine

Sentences that bring ideas and images into clearer focus by adding more useful details and explanation are generally more effective than those that are less clearly focused and that offer fewer details.

Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.

It is not daily increase but daily decrease, hack away the unessential. The closer to the source, the less wastage there is.

If you would not spill the wine, do not fill the glass too full. If you wish your blade to hold it's edge, do not try to make it over-keen.

Specific Teaching can be thought about as the cake; Non-specific Teaching is the icing.

There are things than cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained in mere facts. They are merely trying to occur, they are checking whether the ground of reality can carry them. And they quickly withdraw, fearing to loose their integrity in the frailty of realization.