Quotes About Precision

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.

Attention to detail can't be (and never is) added later. It's an entire development philosophy, methodology, and culture.

The minute hand moves faster than you think it does.

Less is more, in prose as in architecture.

Sometimes careful just isn't good enough.

Numbers and more numbers...the future of mankind has come down to decimals. I guess you will figure that out, eventually.

Just know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

Proofs are to mathematics what spelling (or even calligraphy) is to poetry. Mathematical works do consist of proofs, just as poems do consist of words.

You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

Poetry contains nothing haphazard.

Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.

I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption.

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

We live longerbut less preciselyand in shorter sentences.

I don't like to dabble in anything I don't do well. I don't talk politics.

Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly.

So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact.

Every work is challenging if you want to do it perfectly !!

if you cannot get it all right, don't get it all wrong