Quotes About Precision

Everybody knows 'technically' is the best kind of correct.

A golf ball is like a clock. Always hit it at 6 o'clock and make it go toward 12 o'clock. But make sure you're in the same time zone.

Golf is a four-letter word.

The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.

Author: a dancer of typewriter keys.

As to the Adjective: When in doubt, strike it out.

Those who have had experience with type are aware of its satanic persistence towards error.

I am a very particular person about having all I write printed as I write it. I require to see a proof, a revise, a re-revise, and a double re-revise, or fourth-proof rectified impression of all my productions, especially verse. A misprint kills a sensitive author. An intentional change of his text murders him. No wonder so many poets die young!

Virgo: "You missed a spot."

Amateurs work until they get it right. Professionals work until they can't get it wrong.

If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

Here's to the Clock! Whose hands, we pray heaven, When we come home at three, Have stopped at eleven!

A good dentist never gets on your nerves.

The best carpenters make the fewest chips.

In Japanese swordsmanship, it is not uncommon to speak of a unity of mind, body, and sword.

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

My motto is strong packaging, clear addressing.

The written English we want is clean, clear prose. I choose my words carefully – not elegant, not stylish, just clean, clear prose. It means simplifying, polishing and tightening.

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

While duty measures the regard it owes With scrupulous precision and nice justice, Love never reasons, but profusely gives, Gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, And trembles then, lest it has done too little.

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.