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Quotes About Precision

I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind.
~ Paulo Coelho
I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things.
~ Penn Jillette
My experiments proved that the radiation of uranium compounds can be measured with precision under determined conditions and that this radiation is an atomic property of the element of uranium.
~ Marie Curie
But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple necessity.
~ Niklaus Wirth
It's hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant.
~ Katarina Witt
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
~ Joan Miro
Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.
~ Wilson Follett
In combat flying, fancy precision aerobatic work is really not of much use. Instead, it is the rough maneuver which succeeds.
~ Erich Hartmann
Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
~ Cato the Elder
If the work is high and far, You must not only aim aright, But draw the bow with all your might.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.
~ Maria Montessori
Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.
~ Jack Dorsey
Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.
~ Issey Miyake
There is always the danger in scientific work that some word or phrase will be used by different authors to express so many ideas and surmises that, unless redefined, it loses all real significance.
~ Gilbert N. Lewis
Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window
~ Delia Smith
To know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous.
~ Laura Esquivel
When it comes to being a techie, I'm always precise about the things that I want to know. I love understanding how things work.
~ Michiel Huisman
Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is great satisfaction in a well-made clean tool that does its work well.
~ Liberty Hyde Bailey
In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over.
~ Richie Benaud
I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.
~ Gil Kane
I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.
~ John Ralston Saul
I work between my heartbeat. I have one-and-a-half seconds to actually move. And at the same time I have to watch I don't inhale my own work.
~ Willard Wigan