Quotes About Precision

He imagined that the clock's second hand possessed awareness and knew that it was a second hand and that its job was to around and around inside a circle of numbers forever at the same slow unvarying machinelike rate...

The only way you can communicate at a high level is to be conscious of everything you write — every comma, every pronoun, every word, and all their implications.

The sharply precise divisions and boundaries, together with the fact that—wind and your more exotic-type spins aside—balls can be made to travel in straight lines only, make textbook tennis plane geometry. It is billiards with balls that won't hold still. It is chess on the run. It is to artillery and airstrikes what football is to infantry and attrition.

It was really almost a 90-yard punt, and had the sort of hang-time the Special Teams Asst. said you could have tender and sensitive intercourse during.

Too nice, and yet too true!

The maxim Nothing avails but perfection may be spelt p-a-r-a-l-y-s-i-s

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose

Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.

Although general staffs present the results of their labours in simple and precise assertions, these are no sure foundations upon which to make intricate plans depending upon a few days or a few divisions one way or another.

Dicen que es ciego. ¿Ciego? Tiene el ojo certero del francotirador y él, sólo él, mira al futuro confiado.

We leven langer, maar minder nauwkeurig en in kortere zinnen.

Anything that can be said can be said clearly.

Never shoot up in the air when you're standing under it.

Think of these runs as dance rehearsals rather than exercise: your goal is to master moves and rhythm, not just bash out distance.

You are not being paid to make assumptions

I generally find subtlety a waste of time.

Get to the bloody point!' She

I've always liked putting things in their places. I think it's my only true calling. By ordering things I create and understand at the same time ... Ordering is finding the best form.

Science repulses the indefinite.

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

Science does not permit exceptions.

I will omit but I will not distort.