Quotes About Precision

If you want a place guarded properly, hire Germans.

The difference between the right word and the nearly right word is the same as that between lightning and the lightning bug.

One should not make more assumptions than are absolutely necessary.

The sort of man who, throwing a stone upon the ground, would miss.

Si supiera cuánto es dos más dos, ¡diría que cuatro!

No tiene propósito alguno martillar hierro frío.

Stop, Look, Listen—then strike hard and fast with all the power you need.

I have an abacus at home.

If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things.

Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.

Perfection is in the little things

That's the alchemy of adjectives: boiling down an excess of ideas to the essence of a thing. We want the words to be precise and evocative. If we pick our adjectives carefully, any description can surprise.

The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one.

What careful planning, what painstaking attention to detail, goes into extinguishing a man's life! Far more than the hit-or-miss, haphazard circumstances of igniting it. ("New York Blues")

Time is only linear for engineers and referees.

Fishing—precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge." "I know what fishing is." I took a sip of

The Sniper must not be susceptible to emotions such as anxiety and remorse

See if you can approach your own practice with a healthy combination of mindfulness, playfulness, precision, and curiosity

Wishes are slippery things. You have to be very specific or you can get exactly what you wished for and still end up with nothing.

Clocks need a man to keep them in proper subjection.)

when the operation is to be done but

Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.

If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings.

If you botch a handoff or stutter step in a relay, then your team has to make up that lost time. It's always you versus the clock.