Quotes About Precision

I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.

Good directors give short and specific instructions to their actors.

Art requires choices, the more specific, the better.

I think that when you write for stars, I think that you have to be very specific about what they do beautifully and let them bring it to life.

In a really good, closely matched situation, the style of the boxer is every bit as explicit and specific to him as a painter's hand.

Everything was very specific and very fitted. I can't tell you what we went through for this job in regards to full body scans and the prosthetic process that you go through and all that kind of stuff, but everything was done very specifically to fit you perfectly.

I like to understand, very specifically, what it is I'm seeing, and where it is and where it's going, and a lot of that is just hitting the mark and following the dotted line. But that's good, too because there's concentration and focus that's involved in that.

Being able to communicate what your vision is clearly and with specificity is the most important thing a director can do.

I try not to shy away from specificity.

Everything we do on 'Luck' is absolutely no different than if we'd had been doing it in a feature film. There's no short cuts. The specificity of what every single line might mean. Everything Dustin Hoffman does. Kevin Dunn is as authentic in the last scene of the last episode as he is in the first scene of the first episode.

I like comedy that's very specific and isn't afraid to lose people through its specificity.

The spectacular things come automatically if you're a good goalkeeper, but it's very important that you do all the basics right.

The spectacular catches are the ones that you remember detail for detail. The ones with two hands, it's kind of routine.

It's not just fleet of foot or speed. It's about who gets caught and gets knocked out.

At the end of the day, driving on the limit, sometimes over it to achieve the best out of it, especially at such high speeds... mistakes are easily done.

At Isleworth, they get the greens up to the sort of speeds we see at Augusta, so it's really helpful.

The Sochi circuit can be challenging, featuring a combination of high speed straights and lots of corners, especially in the last sector.

My game is not always built off speed, it's just my craft to where I can run routes and get in-and-out of my breaks as a big guy keeps me at a consistent level for a long time.

Some smashes have been timed at more than 250 mph, so you get less than a second to react. People who see a professional badminton match up close are always shocked at the speed.

I don't even know if you can blink in a hundredth of a second, and that's what it comes down to in speed skating.

As more speed afoot was constantly demanded for big league ball, I noticed the many infield bounders which the runner beat to first only by the thinnest fractions of a second.

Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction.

I want to be known to fans and appreciated as a 'boxer-painter' in regards to speed, footwork, punching power - an art form inside the ring.

I'm just trying to shoot in rhythm. That's the biggest thing for my shot from long range. I don't try to speed it up too much.