Quotes About Precision

People always ask me what I did when things went wrong on stage with AC/DC. Nothing ever went wrong. I might drop a drum stick, maybe, but that was about the only thing.

In my case, it's hard to be like a simple drummer who doesn't play all over the place.

Drummers are tough.

Drumming is so hard.

You have to find the movie in the editing room, and it can't be four hours; it has to be two hours.

It's part of your job always as an editor: you always have to drop stuff.

If you want to win games in this league, you have to be efficient.

I try to be as efficient as possible.

As long as I'm efficient, I'm just going to try to be the most efficient player I can be.

You just try to be as efficient as possible out there.

When I overthink when I have the ball, that's when I make the error and get myself in trouble.

You can be a two-pitch guy and be successful, but your room for error is very small.

For me, it's about trying to be the best in a sport where there's little room for error.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

children in an industrial society are "time trained"—they learn to read the clock, and they learn to distinguish even quite small slices of time, as when their parents tell them, "You've only got three more minutes till bedtime!" These sharply honed temporal skills are often absent in slower-moving agrarian societies that require less precision in daily scheduling than our time-obsessed society.

The Creator is not a careless mechanic.

It's no delay to stop to edge the tool.

Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations.

No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place.

No author who has ever lived has shown such powers of insight into the variety of life - the differences, the contrasts, the collisions of persons and things and situations, each apprehended in its absolute uniqueness and conveyed with a degree of directness and a precision of concrete imagery to be found in no other writer

Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

But who can say that the clock's numbers aren't peeping from rectangular windows, where I see every minute fall on me with a click like the blade of a guillotine?

You know you are somewhat impulsive, but you have learned to control yourself. The thing that most exasperates you is to find yourself at the mercy of the fortuitous, the aleatory, the random, in things and in human actions - carelessness, approximation, imprecision, whether your own or others'. In such instances your dominant passion is the impatience to erase the disturbing effects of that arbitrariness or distraction, to re-establish the normal course of events.