Quotes About Precision

Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

You have wavered uncertainly between two systems, between drawing and coloring, between the painstaking phlegm, the stiff precision, of the old German masters, and the dazzling ardor, the happy fertility, of the Italian painters.

The careful untangling of a legal issue. Like math, but with words.

She was back on her skates, twirling expertly

He moved as slowly as an hour-hand in a crowd of second-hands.

You watch a hockey game, and the hand-eye coordination and the speed is really miraculous how those guys track the puck alone, just following it with their eyes.

To name a thing, one needs to have gathered it, distilled and purified it, attempted to identify it with clarity and precision. One puts a box around the thing and says what's in the box is the thing and what's not is not.

Chess isn't one of my favorites, it takes a cool calculating hatred to play well, and I'm not good at that.

I always wanted to be something, but now I see I should have been more specific.

Military-grade laser," Conti said. "Very powerful, yet more precise than a jeweler's file.

The best artists know what to leave out. They know how much of the support should show through as the pigment is applied, what details aren't necessary.

my delight in philology, my insistence on having language clear-cut and exact, impels me, when someone says it is cold and someone else that it is warm, to look at the thermometer and say: "Gentlemen, it is 69 degrees Fahrenheit in this room.

Me, I'm a stickler. I prefer my photographs in focus.

At last she got it: concept is incidental; execution is all.

Generally speaking, the word minimalism as a style describes the idea of not overcomplicating compositions with too many unnecessary details and elements.

Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds

My goodness, do you take everything so literally?" "I'm an engineer

Vancouver is a street course in the true meaning of the word. There are a lot of places where you can lose the car and end up staying there at least for the session, or for the rest of the race.

I need more left-footed goals. And shooting from outside the box - I need more variance of finishes.

My serve can get better, for sure. It's not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.

I think what pace bowlers need to do in T20 cricket is not just run up and bowl fast. It's not about brute pace in T20, it's about the variation.

T20 cricket is all about using variations, and timing has to be perfect.

Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.