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Quotes About Precision

The right thing done at the wrong timewill not bring about the right results.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
Great poets are great copy editors.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
Ask broad questions and you'll get more than one answer. Ask specific questions and you'll get no answer.
~ S.D. Lawendowski, Snapped
Unfortunately, fact checking has become a lost art
~ Gary Hopkins
The sort of man who, throwing a stone upon the ground, would miss.
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
The more specific you are the more general it'll be.
~ Diane Arbus
Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.
~ Mark Caine
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
~ Charles Buxton
Shooting is an amateur sport, but everybody does it professionally.
~ Abhinav Bindra
Badminton is a cruel sport.
~ Lin Dan
Sport can never be scripted. What I had in my control was to be the best that I could be every single shot.
~ Abhinav Bindra
Lots of people still don't think of golf as a sport.
~ Camilo Villegas
The sport of shooting is my life.
~ Michael Diamond
In my sport, we're measured in millimeters and fractions of millimeters.
~ Matt Emmons
Archery is not a sport for everyone. The equipment costs a lot, and it is not easy for everyone to find a place to play. It is perhaps similar to golf, but of course there are more golf courses than archery fields.
~ Im Dong-Hyun
Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
~ Earl Monroe
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
~ John Updike
What sets baseball apart from other sports is the array of skills that every player needs: the speed, the power, the agility.
~ Mark Kurlansky
Nature - how, we don't know - has technology that works in every living cell and that depends on every atom being precisely in the right spot. Enzymes are precise down to the last atom. They're molecules. You put the last atom in, and it's done. Nature does things with molecular perfection.
~ Richard Smalley
In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while they're cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot.
~ Eric Ripert
When you're older and get more experience, the game slows down for you. I know exactly what spot to get to where I can always get my shot off no matter who's guarding me.
~ Dirk Nowitzki
I use Auto-Tune but it's not to mask anything. If you come to see me live, I can sing on the spot. Auto-tune is just for the recording. It keeps everything really precise.
~ MNEK
I'm not the quickest guy in the world, so I figured if I beat a guy off the dribble, I kind of want to get my space and get my shot up fairly quick - not rush my shot or anything, but just get to my spot where I can make it and they have no chance of contesting it.
~ Brook Lopez