Quotes About Precision

If I hit it right, it's a slice. If I hit it left, it's a hook. If I hit it straight, it's a miracle.

Don't worry about the intensity and direction of the putt -- until you get on the green!

Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.

An alien principle took charge when men began administering nature. When priestesses whose moon-based calendar foretold the cycles with minute precision gave way to priests in women's robes who reckoned by the sun, & left each year awry with one fourth of a useless day.

There was no trick or stunt that he couldn't accomplish with the greatest of ease; we had balancing stunts and all that jazz — nothing he couldn't do. He had absolute unerring control over his body.

It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.

The good thing in chess is that very often the best moves are the most beautiful ones. The beauty of logic.

Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.

The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent.

The world is like an eye, a beard, a spot of beauty and eyebrow, Where each thing is neatly in place.

From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. And I think that's where the beauty is.

In art economy is always beauty.

I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.

Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.

Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere like that of a sculpture.

The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same as the difference between a beautiful and a plain woman --a matter of millimetres.

You concentrate on what you are doing, to do the best job you can, to stay out of a serious situation. That's the way the X-1 was.

Being a chef is the best job in the world.

The best way to be boring is to include everything.

I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

Scholes was England's best football player. It was impossible to take the ball from him, and he never mishit a pass.

I see myself as the mind of the business which takes care of every last detail; if you do not do this you cannot be fast enough.

I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time