Quotes About Precision

as he got up one last time. "Target acquired," the Soldier murmured to himself, exhaling

had come into Gate 41, right on schedule.

Marines—a lone-wolf sniper who had taken out high-profile

I'm a little bit of a control freak when it comes to my music, unfortunately.

In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.

Every shot is unique, even if it's just a close-up, an insert of your hand. You've got to work with the guy behind the lens to get it right, focus in. Those are critical little nothing things, but you've got to work with the people who are trying to put it down, in order to get it.

People put themselves in difficult situations in lots of different areas. What you count on is people taking every precaution. The aerospace industry is unique in this aspect because a thousandths-of-an-inch mistake can cause spectacular failures.

Action game players make more correct decisions per unit time. If you are a surgeon or you are in the middle of a battlefield, that can make all the difference.

I am one of the five best parallel parkers in the United States of America. Dead serious. It's to the point now where I look back when pulling into the spot only as a formality.

Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking.

The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.

If you consider the universe one second after the Big Bang, the expansion rate would have to have been just right to an accuracy of 15 decimal places, or else the universe would really not work.

As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I've got it. I don't think there's any reason to take ten takes unless you need them.

What interests me about clocks is that everything is hand-made, and yet to the person looking at the clock, something magical is happening that cannot be explained unless you are the clockmaker.

I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I won't do anything unless I'm told why I'm doing it. So I felt that we needed fuller explanations so that if you followed one of those recipes, it should turn out exactly right.

You know there's only two things more beautiful than a good gun--a Swiss watch or a woman from anywhere.

In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate.

It's not about being right, it's about getting it right.

When I want to quickly take a measurement, I use my Stanley Laser Distance Measurer. You just put it on the wall, and it shoots a laser and instantly tells you the exact distance to the other wall within a fraction of an inch.

I always, always decide where I'm going with the ball before I take a penalty shot, stare at the ball, follow through, and never look at the place that I'm going to shoot.

It starts with me. I have to get the team in the right play and throw the ball where it's supposed to go.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It's a very delicate thing.