Quotes About Precision

If you drive at precisely twenty-nine miles per hour, the rumble strips play 'Jerusalem' on the car tires. Listen." Mary slowed to the correct speed and

The best plans are always the simplest.

Answers of less than 30 seconds are generally insufficient, but answers over three minutes are too long.

The smaller the group, the bigger the bull's-eye.

You must identify all your target markets. Then take careful aim at each.

You have a bad memory for details. You can tell her the date of the Spanish Armada, but you couldn't even guess at the balance of your checkbook.

It's a simple matter of mathematics.

Captain Prince shrugged. "Not when you're sure of your longitude.

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.

If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.

I know that, in hockey, the object of the game is simple in that you have to get the puck into the net. With figure skating, it's not as simple, and there is a ton of work that goes into it.

Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count.

People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that.

Haste makes work which caution prevents.

I am not like my image; I take my work so seriously. Everyone thinks I just bounce in, but I study and everything has to be just right.

It's fine, precise, detailed work, the infinitely small motor management of diamond cutters and safecrackers that we do in our heads.

Filthy, mucky tools: filthy, mucky work. Clean, beautiful tools: clean, beautiful work.

The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.

Fill your pages with details. Work hard to get the right word.

I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.

Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered .