Quotes About Precision

Her lips are slightly parted: she, whose lips are usually pressed together with the daily disapprovals of the accountants' office where she has worked continually, except for the months of illness, since she was 18, that is to say, for 16 years and some months. Her lips, when she does not speak or eat, are normally pressed together like the ruled line of a balance sheet, marked straight with her old-fashioned lipstick, a final and judjing mouth, a precision instrument.

Good writing is where precision meets passion.

There's a considerable distance between seeking perfection and irretrievable haste

The order of the day is specialization!

You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.

She described people, scenes, and objects she had never seen with the detail and precision of a Flemish master. Her words evoked textures and echoes, the color of voices, the rhythm of footsteps.

What makes the athlete, or the artist, is the work, the vocation, and the technique. The intelligence you are born with is just ammunition. To achieve something with it you need to transform your mind into a high-precision weapon.

root of my literary ambitions, apart from the marvelous simplicity with which one sees things at the age of five, lay in a prodigious piece of craftsmanship and precision that was exhibited in a fountain-pen shop on Calle Anselmo Clavé

When you say what you think, be sure to think what you say.

Gone out to look for a hair to split, I expect.

Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise

I am girl of definitions, of logic, of black and white. Remember this.

I am a girl of definitions, of logic, of black and white.

the truth is that over the years the calibrations have grown so fine that new equipment was necessarily developed, given how decimal places kept being added, the measuring process itself evolving into a kind of test of our mettle, to see how far we could go in realizing an ultimate standard.

I think I coulda landed on a dime. I really do.

I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.

My batting mentality is to see the ball and hit it. I don't know what bowlers see while batting.

The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution.

I try to play each ball on its merit.

I don't like to see mess.

I can go off-point, I can go off-word, I can go off-paragraph, but I can never go off message.

Look at the best dribblers in the world, Lionel Messi and Andres Iniesta, and the ball seems to stick to their foot, so I can work on that when I am dribbling.