Quotes About Precision

You just Sanisa in the death overs. He is simply the best in the world.

You're somebody who has banished all superfluous sentiments from his life. No asinine longings to be home again. No patience for the nonessential. Only time for what's indispensable.

Meu pai era dono de botequim, porém insistia que era preciso escolher as palavras com precisão, e nisso sou como ele. As palavras têm significados — meu pai só estudou até a sétima série, mas até ele sabia disso. Atrás do balcão ele guardava duas coisas pra resolver discussões entre seus clientes: um porrete e um dicionário.

Precise sentences were my ideals, though in practice I was slipshod and sentimental. I began to seek a balance between improvisation and revision.

Will not the good man, who says whatever he says with a view to the best, speak with a reference to some standard and not at random; just as all other artists, whether the painter, the builder, the shipwright, or any other look all of them to their own work, and do not select and apply at random what they apply, but strive to give a definite form to it?

Arts like carpentering, which have an exact measure, are to be regarded as higher than music, which for the most part is mere guess-work.

Le differenze possono essere piccole, ma portare a conseguenze radicalmente diverse, come gli aghi degli scambi; il mestiere del chimico consiste in buona parte nel guardarsi da queste differenze, nel conoscerle da vicino, nel prevederne gli effetti. Non solo il mestiere del chimico.

Praying with precision is key.

Praying with precision is key. When we pray about the places where we seriously suspect the enemy is at work—that's how we keep our prayers focused, not only on particular situations but on biblical truths that are consistent with maintaining victory in the midst of them.

When balancing a bottle of nitroglycerin on the point of a sword, never complicate the task by trying to tap dance.

She waits until the thing is passing overhead, squeezes off a shot, then a second

pedantically

MATHEMATICIAN

The Fates are master sharpshooters, and the easy target is the one who's standing still.

Drew had never before shot like he did that day, nor has he since. It was something to see. The contest had just begun when he walked up, aimed, and felled a cluster from the very top of the boughs.

Ifs" hover in the air above your head all the time when you're doing surgery, like a cloud of gnats. For the most part, though, they keep a respectful distance, only buzzing dimly in the background. Done.

It's a sword, aye? Not a bloody club. Use the tip!

For a striker, the goals never move. Whatever division you're playing in.

I expect myself to do my job, and that's taking care of the football and converting third downs.

Our dresses take a long time to make.

On 18 you've got to drive it up a gnat's ass.

I don't like half-volleys being driven for four.

You pretty much know as a driver what too fast is.

When you're driving on a normal track, you can see the braking point from 500 m. away.