Quotes About Precision

If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason.

When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing.

It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.

I've spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or an airplane. I am considerate of the risk we take every time we fly. I also know we need to fly and always to improve safety.

On 'Masters of Sex,' especially in the pilot, everybody was showing up word-perfect, and you're expected to show up word-perfect.

When I was at my peak, I would go into streaks where I felt like it was almost magic, that I could knock down the pin from anywhere with my irons.

Pitch me outside, I will hit .400. Pitch me inside, and you will not find the ball.

I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible.

The 'Game of Thrones' wardrobe department is so detail-oriented.

Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

There are two types of warriors: the one that rides through on his horse and tries to slay everyone, and the sniper. I try to be more like the sniper. Bang. Bang. Bang. Break them down, shot by shot.

When I was a child, she'd have me wash the lettuce ten times or open walnuts by hand to make a cake. I was like, 'Mom, this is ridiculous.' But now? I run my kitchen the same way.

I always keep a small timer next to me to tell me how many seconds I have to wash each part of my face.

I counted everything. I counted the steps to the road, the steps up to church, the number of dishes and silverware I washed... anything that could be counted, I did.

The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.

Here was one perfect example of why he preferred to work with computers and code. They did what was required of them. They didn't cheat, didn't betray, didn't wake up one morning with a damned tumor that knocked them to their knees.

Speed will follow when the mechanism of the movements is more assured.

He was a poet and hated the approximate.

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

architect Mies van der Rohe is credited with saying, "God is in the details." Delivering

Organizations don't execute unless the right people, individually and collectively, focus on the right details at the right time.

Such was the quality of goldsmithery that a Dutch captain would write: "The thread and texture of their hatbands and chaining is so fine that … our ablest European artists would find it difficult to imitate them.

Truth by definition excludes.

One uttered word of explanation is wrong,