Quotes About Precision

Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half.

Basis points," or "bp," represent one hundredth of a percent, in reference to the yield, or cost of borrowing. "Area" is a term that simply means "plus or minus"; sometimes it is quantified and sometimes it is left intentionally undefined. This

And you know what genius is, Mose? It's endless attention to detail.

Another mantra, which I still write in chalk on the blackboard, is "A Thousand Details Add Up to One Impression." It's actually a quote from Cary Grant.

This, after all, was Switzerland, where everything works; Switzerland, where trains run like clocks, and clocks run like watches, and watches are synchronous with the pulse of the universe; Switzerland

He had fought back with every weapon in his arsenal, being alternatively obtuse, evasive and pedantic, for it was wonderful how you could obscure an emotional issue by appearing to seek precision.

Always aim at perfection for only then will you achieve excellence

It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.

I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is the only way you can achieve excellence. So, in that case, being finicky is essential.

There is no excellence in archery without great labour.

I can do small things in a great way.

The difference in being good at some thing and being great at something is usually found in the little things.

Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence.

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

As you all know, I'm kind of a perfectionist.

I believe in striving for excellence. I sweat the big and small stuff! I do not apologize for this.

Trying to compromise EXCELLENCE, is like trying to let a little bit of air out of a balloon with a hat pin.

Excellence is greater than an achievement; excellence is standard in all my designs

Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.

Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

You must know your faith with the same precision with which a specialist in information technology knows the operating system of a computer.