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Quotes About Precision

Look at him! Him, that one there! He's hiding! Your team-mates need to know that you are always available!' he'll shout, pointing a finger at the culprit. 'Before passing the ball, you need to know where you're passing it to; if you don't know, it's better to keep it; give it to your goalie, but don't give it to your opponent
~ Guillem Balagué
Secondly, you should be able to control the ball with one touch. If you needed another one, you were not one of the best players, just a good one. If you needed an extra touch, you were playing badly.
~ Guillem Balagué
El enemigo más difícil de vencer es aquel que miras todos los días frente al espejo." "La venganza es un acto de precisión." "No permitas que la emoción alimente tu venganza. Aguarda, el momento correcto para ejecutarla llegará." "Si tu enemigo es belicoso, pronto topará con el adversario que le dé muerte. Puedes ser tú, puede ser otro.
~ Guillermo Arriaga
Rage is never blind. Rage is uniquely focused.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Todo cuanto tuviera que ver con Claire merecía ser repetido a cámara lenta, sin que las matemáticas fueran una excepción
~ Guillermo del Toro
Poetry is as exact a science as geometry
~ Gustave Flaubert
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
~ Gustave Flaubert
It's hard to communicate anything exactly and that's why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
~ Gustave Flaubert
The German starts by claiming: 'German is off course ze best language. It is ze language off logik and philosophy, and can commuicate viz great clarity and precision even ze most complex ideas.' 'Boeff,' shrugs the Frenchman, 'but French, French, it ees ze language of lurve! In French, we can convey all ze subtletees of romance weez elegance and flair.
~ Guy Deutscher
A writer's brush is a warrior's bow, the letters it shapes are arrows that must hit the mark on the page. The calligrapher is an archer, or a general on a battlefield. Someone wrote that long ago. She feels that way this morning. She is at war.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.
~ Guy Kawasaki
Your positive thinker may do well in suburbia but I'd rather be with a lucid depressive in the Arctic, where survival depends on precision and not fooling yourself about your chances on the ice.
~ Gwyneth Lewis
On two occasions I have been asked,—"Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
~ James Gleick
the tiny imprecision built into each calculation rapidly takes over, because this is a system with sensitive dependence on initial conditions.
~ James Gleick
logarithmic tables as cheap as potatoes"—
~ James Gleick
Unsheathe your dagger definitions.
~ James Joyce
Wonderful organisation certainly, goes like clockwork.
~ James Joyce
Hey gunslinger... nice shot.
~ James O'Barr
You know, when you're right, that's all you get to be.
~ James Patterson
You know, when you're right,that's all you get to be.
~ James Patterson
That's a gun scope.
~ James Patterson
The only thing that matters in this game is the score, something hackers never quite understand, even when they think they do. If you can't make a shot eighty percent of the time and there's a penalty if you don't, you shouldn't try it. Ever. No matter where you are.
~ James Patterson