Quotes About Precision

Iga asi on rituaal. Hoolikalt välja töötatud rituaal, mida igaüks püüab võimalikult täpselt sooritada, sest ta kardab, et kui mõni osa välja jääb, läheb kõik valesti. Selle rituaali nimi on rutiin.

It does not matter if you can do 1,000 punches if none of them can knock out your little sister.

For this Mary's words were not surcharged with oversubtle meaning. No, she spoke them out swiftly and with sharp clearness and each word had its own weight and meaning and no more, good tools of her mind, but not messengers of vague suggestion.

There's a lot of precision, but also a lot of gentleness. Along with being very precise about our world, there's also always space around us that is called gentleness: we allow ourselves to experience how large and fluid and full of color and energy our world is. This space is our circle.

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

The weight of an argument may often be multiplied by making it specific

If you can't reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there's something wrong with your argument.

Jiu Jitsu is a mousetrap. The trap does not chase the mouse. But when the mouse grabs the cheese, the trap plays its role.

I'm not making art, I'm making sushi

Art is violent. To be decisive is violent. ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every other possible choice, every other option.

Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

Cooking is the art of adjustment.

To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.

Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.

The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

A game of rugby is a work of art!

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless.

There's nothing more difficult than a line.