Quotes About Precision

The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.

You can't think and hit at the same time.

Trying to get a fast ball past Hank Aaron is like trying to get the sun past a rooster.

Conciseness is the sister of talent.

Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim.

Trifles make perfection - and perfection is no trifle.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

There is an accuracy that defeats itself by the overemphasis of details. I often say that one must permit oneself, and quite advisedly and deliberately, a certain margin of misstatement.

There is but one art, to omit.

Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.

Whatever we conceive well we express clearly.

Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness.

Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day.

Jane: Focus is important. V: Only if you're a microscope.

from a bow, and had

When she finally muscled her way off, she reminded herself to be clear, thorough, and dispassionate. She reached Whitney's outer office, and his admin. "I need

A couple of inches up and right and he would have been a soprano.

Ink drawing was a lot like life: One mistake and the whole thing was ruined.