Quotes About Precision

I'm normally quite restrictive in the runs department.

The Nicholas Brothers were the best tap-dancers. I'm not talking about their flash-dancing, I'm talking about tap-dancing. They were really saying something with their feet.

I think I'd have to say my favorite IWC. They have been around for so long and the craftsmanship is top notch. A watch maker that has been in business over 100 years has to know what they are doing.

There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.

Why play a chord when you can play one note?

All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note.

Note to all men: If you're going to make mention of something that a woman did, like wear cowboy boots, make sure you've got the right woman!

The right notes mean more than 1,000 mph arpeggios.

If what you do for a living is play drums or bass, then that defines you. You don't want to be some guy missing notes here and there; you want to really speak with it.

When you use a metronome, you'll start to notice where the notes are falling, if they're on the beat, behind the beat, between the beat, and so on.

You can see all sorts of things in film acting if you know where to look and what to look for. One thing I often notice is that the actor is looking for his mark, the place where he has to stand to be in the right place in the shot.

When you watch your favorite guitarists play, notice how little their hands and fingers move sometimes. The economy of motion can't be overemphasized.

You only notice long snappers when they screw up.

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

The short story is an imploding universe. It has all the boil of energy inside it. A novel has shrapnel going all over the place. You can have a mistake in a novel. A short story has to be perfect.

What a good novelist does with a throwaway that serves no fictional purpose is throw it away.

An acoustic show is all about you, and any little nuance or mistake is amplified.

The thing about darts is that you've got to shout. It's not like cricket where you can talk to Michael Atherton and ask him to analyse the bloody nuances. Darts does not have nuances. You've got to hurl yourself at it.

If I can be number one in the world without power hitting, then I don't need power hitting. But when I need to, I utilise it well.

Numbers don't lie. I think it's pretty cut and dry what consistency is.

When you are shooting action, there is a satisfying thing because your objectives are very clear.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

The fundamental difficulty in myothermic observations is the smallness of the changes involved and their rapidity.

The microscopic world became my obsession.