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Quotes About Precision

The fast, flowing parts, the high-speed corners, that's where a Formula One car is at its best - changes of direction, pulling high g-forces left and right.
~ Jenson Button
The gap between bat and pad is so much that I would have driven a car through it... !!
~ Navjot Singh Sidhu
There are a lot of drivers who can carry a car. It doesn't happen very often very successfully. I think it takes a certain amount of sensible bravery. It's no good to be brave and just keep crashing.
~ Paul Newman
If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong.
~ Joe Biden
The best way to win at a game of chance is to remove chance from the equation.
~ Daniel Silva
A photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars.
~ Unknown
A good fighter must sense rather than perceive his chance to strike.
~ Bruce Lee
The meditation technique itself cultivate precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go - qualities that are innate within us.
~ Pema Chodron
If we emphasized only precision, our meditation might become quite harsh and militant. (...). One thing that is very helpful is to cultivate an overall sense of relaxation while you are doing the meditation.
~ Pema Chodron
The quickness of his hand was determined by the quickness of his eye.
~ Peter Ackroyd
The finite and the infinite are "incommensurable" (not related even by proper analogy); there is no proportion between them. Precision, or clarity, or exactness, is simply impossible here. All distinctions between
~ Peter Kreeft
To undo a contradiction, make a distinction.
~ Peter Kreeft
Code is FLUFFY AND FIERCE.
~ Peter Lerangis
Jason Dill held the pencil beam steadily.
~ Philip K. Dick
It was just as Dr. Relf had described it to him, but finer than he could ever have imagined. The thirty-six pictures around the dial were minute and clear, the three hands and the one needle were exquisitely shaped out of some silver-gray metal, and a golden sunburst surrounded the center of the dial.
~ Philip Pullman
Even in the middle of a crisis, he had to be accurate.
~ David Gerrold
I don't like to do anything that I can't do very well-Doris Day
~ Unknown
Mathematics. It soothed, it allowed you, once you had perceived it, to breathe.
~ David Malouf
An automobile piston should be round; but this phrase means nothing unless there is a way to measure the roundness of a particular piston.
~ Unknown
It occurred to me then that my mother was a better actor than I ever hoped to be. Acting is different that posing or pretending. When done with precision, it bears a striking resemblance to lying. Stripped of the costumes and grand gestures, it presents itself as as an unquestionable truth.
~ David Sedaris
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary." —Pablo Picasso
~ Unknown
Close' only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and tactical nuclear weapons
~ David Weber
only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and tactical nuclear weapons
~ David Weber
Maybe you could say she was overly precise sometimes, not especially creative, or lacking in soul.
~ Zadie Smith