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Quotes About Precision

Ang Lee is very precise. He will show you everything, and will let you know what he is thinking about the whole project. There are a lot of rehearsals before shooting, and you already reach a certain standard. Then he will ask for more.
~ Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
For the most part, when you play a full shot from the primary rough at your course, you're gauging how close to a standard shot you can hit based on your lie in the grass.
~ Ernie Els
Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.
~ Irvine Welsh
My irons are three-eighths of an inch longer than standard.
~ Tony Finau
I am a perfectionist, and I set high standards.
~ Dimitar Berbatov
Results are a consequence of doing things well and having high standards, improving the detail of how we play.
~ Gareth Southgate
I know I have exacting standards.
~ Travis Knight
From a cognitive standpoint, I'm very aware that you have no room for error in a picture book. Every word counts.
~ Kate DiCamillo
When I talk about football from a studio standpoint, I try to cut through the minutia and get to the point.
~ Booger McFarland
I just fight like myself. I'm like a cat - if I see the opening, I'm going to shoot for it. I think what stands out is my accuracy.
~ Ryan Garcia
I fly close to my man, aim well and then of course he falls down.
~ Oswald Boelcke
Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.
~ Aldous Huxley
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.
~ Francis Bacon
Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.
~ Red Smith
It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits
~ Aristotle
Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . .
~ Samuel Johnson
So I went to buy a watch, and the man in the shop said "Analogue." I said "No, just a watch."
~ Tim Vine
Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a woman I will disregard, for she does not have any set proportion.
~ Cennino Cennini
A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.
~ Clifton Fadiman
Man was not then considered a good goldsmith unless he could draw well.
~ Giorgio Vasari
Carelessness doesn't bounce; it shatters.
~ Terri Guillemets
The perfect temperature for tea is two degrees hotter than just right.
~ Terri Guillemets
To write a word or a phrase or a sentence in Arabic is like crafting an equation, because every part is extremely precise and carries a lot of information.
~ Terry Moore
A hunter is an exceptionally disciplined man, for the parameters of his livelihood are precise.
~ Théun Mares