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Quotes About Precision

such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges..
~ Tom Watson
Isao Aoki is one of the three best players in the world from 100yards. Maybe the best
~ Tom Watson
He delivered his dissertation about the Founding Fathers with such exactitude.
~ Unknown
Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.
~ Tommy Armour
If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.
~ Tommy Bolt
They throw their clubs backwards, and that's wrong. You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don't have to walk any extra distance to get it.
~ Tommy Bolt
Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.
~ Tommy Lasorda
It was a long time before the Snork came back with the wood. "Well, there you are at last," said his sister. "It took quite a time, said the Snork, "because, of course, I had to find pieces that were all exactly the same length." "Is he always so particular?" asked Snufkin. "He was born like that," said the Snork Maiden.
~ Tove Jansson
I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.
~ Travis Barker
The laces had broken and were so short that tying them was like performing surgery on an insect.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
He cranked the key until the watch was fully wound, then withdrew the key and held the watch to his ear.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
Teams have to eliminate ambiguity and interpretation when it comes to success.
~ Patrick Lencioni
Can I Inadvertently Blow Things Up? You bet. One of the easiest ways to do so is to fail to follow good reloading habits.
~ Unknown
The military prizes reliability and durability over accuracy.
~ Unknown
Everyday words are inherently imprecise. They work well enough in everyday life that you don't notice. Words seem to work, just as Newtonian physics seems to. But you can always make them break if you push them far enough.
~ Paul Graham
Make sure that people know what type of average you're using. What if someone else uses the term average without specifying the type? That person is probably referring to the mean, but you can't be certain, and a lack of certainty is dangerous when you're talking statistics.
~ Unknown
Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.
~ Paul Schullery
Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.
~ Paulo Coelho
Nothing is completely wrong, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
~ Paulo Coelho
Even stopped clocks are right twice a day.
~ Paulo Coelho
Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong, my dear, said her father looking at the clock. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day
~ Paulo Coelho
The lack of attention to the smallest details can completely destroy a man's life
~ Paulo Coelho
Continue in the way of the bow, for it is a whole life's journey, but remember that a good, accurate shot is very different from one made with peace in your soul.
~ Paulo Coelho
Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong, my dear', said her father, looking at the clock. 'Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
~ Paulo Coelho