Quotes About Precision

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

One arrow does not bring down two birds.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself and, equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.

I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

A good marksman may miss.

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.

Never try to catch two frogs with one hand.

Haste makes waste.

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

Did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.

One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.

Whenever you catch a ball, just see it all the way into the tuck.

I get really excited about specific therapies, personalized therapies. Like, let's say, taking a piece of someone's tumor and testing a bunch of treatments in a lab and being able to come up with the right therapy for that specific patient.

A lot of people don't realize that guitar playing is very much like singing or playing any of the glissando-type instruments - you have to do it in tune.

Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.

We tune down a full step when we play but I never miss a note. I've learned how to keep my voice.

All mathematics is is a language that is well tuned, finely honed, to describe patterns; be it patterns in a star, which has five points that are regularly arranged, be it patterns in numbers like 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 that follow very regular progression.

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.