Quotes About Precision

conscious mind is able to follow the precise arithmetic rules needed for correctness. On the other hand, for decisions that involve large amounts of information and multiple vague, and perhaps even conflicting, constraints, your unconscious mind is well suited to tackle the issue.

Nunca se deve considerar uma coisa como certa se for apenas quase certa.

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

Me gustaba tan poco pisar en falso como iniciar a tientas un nuevo movimiento. Por eso practicaba tanto, para encontrarme en terreno seguro y perfeccionar luego los detalles.

Clementine nudges my shoulder. "I firmly believe you could hit eleven out of ten targets, with only nine bullets." I snort-laugh. "What?" she says. "It's true. I also believe you could cut a knife with butter." This time, everyone snort-laughs.

Spo?ítala jsem to. Jsem si na osmdesát tÃ…â"¢i procent jistá, že m?j výpo?et je na stoprocent správný.

Let's work the problem, people. Let's not make things worse by guessing.

Small is not beautiful unless small is skilled and dedicated.

Reports for the bureau always got to have all the i 's dotted and the t 's crossed.

Each question was precisely the best one based on the information he had uncovered so far. His logic was faultless—he never asked a question that was irrelevant or erroneous. His questions came in rapid-fire order, revealing a mind that was lightning-fast and error-free.

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

Better never than late.

Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go.

A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.

Almost every cost estimate made by a physicist is wildly wrong, and the better the physicist the worse it is (Herb York).

It was never enough for him merely to establish a result; he had to do it with elegance and grace.

When a workman is unceasingly and exclusively engaged in the fabrication of one thing, he ultimately does his work with singular dexterity; but, at the same time, he loses the general faculty of applying his mind to the direction of the work. His every day becomes more of adroit and less industrious; so that it may be said of him, that, in proportion as the workman improves, the man is degraded. Alexis de Tocqueville

If there is anything to do, there is certainly a best way to do it, and the best way is both the most economical and the most graceful.

The room, the wall, trembled with precision, as if the inanimate world were about to utter a word.

I have to make my drawing right so that my drawing will be right.

how much is 2+2? Suppose Joseph says: 2+2 = purple, while Maxwell says: 2+2 = 17. Both are wrong but isn't it fair to say that Joseph is wronger than Maxwell? Suppose you said: 2+2=an integer. You'd be right, wouldn't you? Or suppose you said: 2+2=an even integer. You'd be rather righter. Or suppose you said:2+2=3.999. Wouldn't you be nearly right?

A good Technician was rarely wrong. A top Technician was never wrong.

El problema no estaba en conseguir la respuesta, sino en formular la pregunta precisa.

Nathaniel Belasco had photographed his wife between 1977 and 1983, using one of the first twenty-by-twenty-four Polaroids capable of capturing the tiniest details with the utmost precision.