Quotes About Precision

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away

Perfection - not a big thing but a combination of many small things.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Use the right tools, proceed slowly and carefully, and you can walk through even a minefield safely.

Your choices become your destiny choose very precisely.

In life, be careful in each of your actions and use your efforts, and time carefully.

Is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?

And now there is this—this fit. It is altogether unlike anything she has felt before. It makes her think of a hand drawing on a glove, of a lamb slithering wet from a ewe, an axe splitting open a log, a key turning in an oiled lock. How, she wonders, as she looks into the face of the tutor, can anything fit so well, so exactly, with such a sense of rightness?

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet.

Tout le monde se fiche des "presque", Dante. Si les " presque" comptaient, toute la population adulte, hormis peut-être une ou deux bonnes sœurs, serait en prison.

No hay menos belleza en una exacta ecuación q en una frase precisa. Pero cada ciencia tiene su propio lenguaje estético

While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

Really good anything takes timing.

Extra Full - 45 yards. Full - 40 yards. Modified - 35 yards. Improved Cylinder - 30 yards. Cylinder - 25 Yards.

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

Quality is more important than quantity as it is always the result of intelligent effort

If you will make a man of the working creature, you can not make a tool. Let him but begin to imagine, to think, to try to do anything worth doing; and the engine-turning precision is lost at once. Out comes all his roughness, all the dulness, all his incapability; shame upon shame, failure upon failure, pause after pause:but out comes the whole majesty of him also; and we know the height of it only when we see the clouds settling upon him. And, whether the clouds be bright or dark.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated

He glanced at his watch: three twenty-seven in the afternoon, more or less. With a Rolex, he'd discovered, more or less had to be good enough.

The thing that drew her to guns was their precision, lethality, and simplicity.

They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.

The greater the scope in implementing an activity, the greater the need for strict attention to small details.