Quotes About Precision

Hit the nail on the head.

True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear

To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.

Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers.

Something is wrong with a sentence when you can delete words and not sense the loss.

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

Now it seems obvious, of course, that even a strong person has weak spots and that I had hit Cassie's full force, with all the precision of a jeweler fragmenting a stone along a flaw. She must have thought, sometimes, of her namesake, the votary branded with her god's most inventive and sadistic curse: to tell the truth, and never to be believed.

Ask any ice-skater or ballet dancer or show jumper, anyone who lives by beautiful moving things: nothing takes as much work as effortlessness.

It comes to him with the clarity of a sound, a neat small chink like metal hitting stone.

Murder isn't like other squads. When it's working right, it would take your breath away: it's precision-cut and savage, lithe and momentous, it's a big cat leaping full-stretch or a beauty of a rifle so smooth it practically fires itself.

The noting should be like a whisper in the mind, not like a mantra, or word to focus on. Keep it very soft and light. As an aid to practice, mental noting can help to clearly acknowledge with precision what is actually happening.

In fact, when compared against the timepieces normally employed for such calibration purposes, the turret clocks were all found to have resumed keeping perfect time.

Conventional languages. . . lack the power to express concepts that I need, and even in their own domain, they're imprecise and unwieldy. They're hardly fit for speech, let alone thought.

I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English.

You've got to guard against speaking more clearly than you think.

If I were in charge of the Olympics, I would probably try to put something for the javelin guy to aim at. Not just length, but see if you could spear something.

Whenever you're in a show that has a lot of special effects, there is a large margin for error.

A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.

The idea, as a director, is to be able to bring everybody on board and to inspire and give energy to everybody and to explain specific color, specific ambience. I need to be very precise, but I think I'm a better director when I'm more a channeler than a dictator.

I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.

You're doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it's a specific individual that you're talking about, not that whole class of people.

Now the difficulty with those warnings is that they were not specific.

You can theorise about the options you have but in reality they are very specific.