Quotes About Precision

Engraving then, is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch.

To me, figure skating is an art form, and that's what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs.

Timing has a lot to with art.

It's kind of a crazy art form, movies, in that you have to get it right the day you do it, generally.

[Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship.

It [ballet] projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision.

When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David."

Only the painter who knows his business can create the impression that a picture was done in one stroke.

In the art of magic be quick of sleight and slow of climax.

It seems shelving is an art, like everything else. I decide to do it exceptionally well.

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything.

Ellen ran their home precisely the way

One [method] is by a Watch to keep time exactly. But, by reason of the motion of the Ship, the Variation of Heat and Cold, Wet and Dry, and the Difference of Gravity in different Latitudes, such a watch hath not yet been made." And not likely to be, either, he implied.

Creationist? Well, no, it's not creationist either. The point is that we are probably a bit less top-to-bottom thorough than, say, the Army Corps of Engineers. Well, actually, scratch that. We are probably about exactly as thorough as the Army Corps of Engineers, in that we are intermittently thorough.

It is better to be wrong than to be vague. —Freeman Dyson

A great hammer doesn't make a great carpenter; but a great carpenter will always want to have a great hammer.

It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.

Es mejor estar equivocado que ser impreciso. —FREEMAN DYSON

Success or failure was always defined largely during the preparation. With good planning all one had to do was execute. Even last-second changes could be made with greater ease if the planning in the first place had been precise.

And after the hit on the gridiron his filter had been vastly reduced, so it was even harder for him not to always tell the literal truth. He instinctively craved precision and was reluctant to accept anything less than that.

more. Lee had done this so many times that he could have closed his eyes and his fingers would carry on, manipulating his tools of felony with enviable precision. Lee had already

smaller ones using sledgehammers

You have to know exactly what you're doing before you decide to use guns.