Quotes About Precision

The nice thing about the 'House of Cards' is they did 70 takes, so it was a little different. You only get one at the Supreme Court.

Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was correct.

Ironing is comfort. It's control. I'm a nutty person who likes to make sure everything is in its place.

At heart, I'm a reconstructive surgeon.

The sniper is like a highly skilled surgeon, practicing his craft on the battlefield.

Economics is not brain surgery.

It's not brain surgery. I focus on getting the costumes right, getting the body language. I do what I can with the makeup.

I never thought make-up was like brain surgery.

I believe every editor should stand to edit. That's just my particular soapbox. Some things are so delicate and depend on such fine, delicate work. One frame in one direction or another can make such a difference and it is, in that, like brain surgery.

Let's have days and days of brilliant clarity, etched and limpid, cool and surgical.

Brain surgery couldn't happen without the patient's own active voice to guide the work. The patient is part of the surgical team here, perhaps the most important part, and above all, that's what makes neurosurgery different.

You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they don't have the physical skills but because they don't have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure.

There are so many things that go into a surgical study.

I'm surprised when the ball doesn't go into the hoop. I think I should make every shot.

Guns are heavy metal machines, and, at least in my case, it's surprising how many hours it takes before it looks like you know what you're doing. Releasing and re-loading magazines is difficult when you're asked to do it quickly and efficiently.

We always see that the gaps in qualifying are surprisingly close but then in the race suddenly it is like a second or something.

I'm a heart surgeon, sure, but I'm just a mechanic. I go in and I fuck around and I fix things. Shit.

Le parole possono essere precise anche al punto da apparire piatte, l'importante è che siano cariche di significato; se usate bene, possono toccare tutte le note.

When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.

The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.

Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her . . . that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.

Nothing of that tongue survived into my generation but a few insults: Yiddish can describe defects of character with the precision that Inuit describes ice or Japanese rain.

Each of us is in truth an idea of the Great Gull, an unlimited idea of freedom," Jonathan would say in the evenings on the beach, "and precision flying is a step toward expressing our real nature. Everything that limits us we have to put aside. That's why all this high-speed practice, and low-speed, and aerobatics …

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