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Quotes About Precision

If they wanted a half-inch, you have to be able to give them a half-inch. I mean, not an inch, not two inches. Those holes must line up exactly or they won't make their iron. And when you swing, you have to swing real smooth. You can't have your iron swinging back and forth, oscillating. If you do this, they'll refuse to work with you, because their life is at stake.
~ Studs Terkel
When torrential water tosses boulders, it is because of its momentum. When the strike of a hawk breaks the body of its prey, it is because of timing.
~ Sun Tzu
I can shoot a three pointer in basketball, and I can kick a soccer ball.
~ Christopher Mintz-Plasse
In training when I'm receiving the ball I always know where I want to go. At the end of the day it's just soccer.
~ Crystal Dunn
I only try to play good soccer.
~ James Rodriguez
I have never been able to play consistently with soft hands.
~ Virender Sehwag
My job is to catch the ball no matter how they throw it - hard, soft, medium. You've got to be able to catch it.
~ Antonio Brown
I've used my experience from playing sports in almost every aspect of my life. Playing soccer is where I found my voice, and playing softball was where I learned precision, and in every game I learned to play as a member of a team - to work not for my own glory, but for a shared goal.
~ Linda Sanchez
I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error.
~ John Maeda
Editing is kind of a solitary job.
~ Joe Dante
I fix things all the time. Every time I do a solo, I re-check it and correct things that don't hit the mark.
~ Kirk Hammett
it is strange, is it not, how an accident of millimeter here, a millimeter there, makes one face so important.
~ Judith Krantz, Scruples
I love all motor sports at the top level.
~ Mario Andretti
If only thy eyes flutter once, the bees lose their direction and the fighting men their aim!
~ Avijeet Das
A Good Relationship is like a neat and defined nail art. It requires a lot of concentration, time devotion and patience, to take it to perfection!
~ Mehek Bassi
Crec en el que pensava el gran poeta Samuel Taylor Coleridge sobre quins eren els punts cardinals de l'educació primerenca: «Treballar amb amor i així crear amor. Acostumar la ment a la precisió intel·lectual i la veritat. Estimular el poder de la imaginació». Coleridge conclou la seva obra Lecture on Education amb aquestes paraules: «Ben poc s'aprèn de la competició o la baralla, tot s'aprèn de la comprensió i de l'amor».
~ Miriam Toews
You have reminded me of how alien I found the concept of acquaintances splitting the bill when I first arrived in your country. I had been raised to favour mutual generosity over mathematical precision in such matters; given time both work equally well to even a score.
~ Mohsin Hamid
Whenever a physical quantity is measured, the measurement can be characterized by its range, resolution, precision and accuracy, concepts that are often confused.
~ Mordechai Ben-Ari
In robotics, accuracy is not as important as precision, because a sensor measurement does not directly return a physical quantity.
~ Mordechai Ben-Ari
It is only when you try to refine the obvious, and give the distinctions greater precision, that you get into difficulties. For
~ Mortimer J. Adler
Any good argument can be put into a nutshell. There
~ Mortimer J. Adler
Some writers have excellent "control"; they know exactly what they want to convey, and they convey it precisely and accurately
~ Mortimer J. Adler
If words could not be used ambiguously, if, in short, each word was an ideal term, language would be a diaphanous medium.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
4:15. Not 4 not 4:30 but 4:15. She thought to intimidate me with the use of quarter hours.
~ Muriel Spark