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Quotes About Precision

Adesso, fare cioccolato è una cosa diversa. Oh, certo, ci vuole comunque una certa abilità. Leggerenzza nel tocco, rapidità, una pazienza che mia madre non avrebbe mai avuto.
~ Joanne Harris
Whatever you do, be sure to do it well.
~ Andrena Sawyer
You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
~ Edie Campbell
Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics
~ Carl Friedrich Gauss
You can't be better than everyone at everything. You can always become the best at something specific. Zero in on the target and own it!
~ Unknown
He gets through too late who goes too fast
~ Publilius Syrus
Nature. He disliked its prickly stems, its bramble and bush, the obstinate precision of its cycles, its preconfigured calendar, the coded tapestry of its hills, standing stubbornly in the way of human progress.
~ Viken Berberian
Even the clock shows the time without knowing anything.
~ Unknown
Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings
~ Vitruvius
In high art and pure science detail is everything.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Quality is pride of workmanship.
~ W. Edwards Deming
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
~ W. S. Merwin
A line will take us hours may be; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, Our stitching and unstitching has been nought.
~ Unknown
Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. Rigour should be a signal to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere.
~ Unknown
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
~ W.S. Merwin
In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.
~ Emanuel Lasker
I'm afraid there are no replays or second chances in amateur or professional golf, and that's the way it should be.
~ Rory McIlroy
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Carve every word before you let it fall.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Be bold. Be fast. Get to the point right away. The best email communication is simple and clear.
~ Constance Hale
Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been prepared with the help of a computer.
~ Donald Knuth
I'm real good with math, with numbers, like my dad was. I'm pretty much dialed in.
~ Hulk Hogan
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
~ Sam Snead