Quotes About Precision

once you commit, don't hesitate or skimp. Do it right.

Words know that there is always the right word and no other word will do.

A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.

I do make an attempt to always get that first take…. You're not stepping up to bunt. You're stepping up to hit the damn thing.

Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.

In those days you matched a block of balsa against a rudimentary diagram and got going with a razor blade, which sliced your thumb as readily as it carved the balsa. If the result was recognizable as an aeroplane, you were an expert. If your thumb was recognizable as a thumb, you were a genius.

matched pair of Purdey shot-guns, one of which had not been fired,

The clavadista checks the tower On the cliffs from which he dives Turning two thirds of the way down To mark the point Where all the somersaults are over And he must go in feet first or else break

the application of effort should always be exactly measured: nothing by force, everything by logical progression.

Concentrate on the small things and do them well.

Concentrate on the small things and do them well. -Dr Siri Paiboun

It's not normal, like chasing a little white ball and whacking it into eighteen different holes.

Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold.

My job is about being right. Always. If I'm ever wrong, I must make use of all my means and resources to bend and align reality according to my mistake so that it ceases to be a mistake.

Every shift is a work of art.

I do a lot of counting. Cigarette butts, trees, fence slats, clouds, or the number of paving stones between one phone pole and the next, the windows along the way to the bus stop in the morning, the pedestrians I see from the bus between one stop and the next, red ties on an afternoon in the city. How many steps from the office to the factory gate. I count to keep the world in order, I said. Paul

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.

Like most modern words, "Heresy" is used both vaguely and diversely. It is used vaguely because the modern mind is as averse to precision in ideas as it is enamored of precision in measurement. It is used diversely because, according to the man who uses it, it may represent any one of fifty things.

There are some people in this world who like everything squared up and precise, and there are those who will allow some drift at the margins.

He was ruinously beautiful in the way that knives and scalpels can be beautiful

I notice small things. I'm a "detail" guy, that's why I'm good at programming.

Yeah, after each of my downhill putts.