Quotes About Precision

He who prays must be like a good, industrious barber who has to keep his mind and eyes precisely upon his razor and hair and know whether to cut or trim, lest by too much gabbing or looking about aimlessly, he slashes someone's mouth or nose, or worse, someone's throat.

Uncluding is the art of subtracting every element that doesn't pull its weight.

Cooking is like making love, you do it well, or you do not do it at all.

Part of being good with a rifle is knowing what I'm shooting at. Did you think I'd just start unloading bullets into the underbrush?

Perhaps it is the intrusion of sexuality that marks the end of precision.

we are all driven by the urge to meet our needs. What if one of our most fundamental needs is to have things be just so?

There is power in words used accurately and well, and tragedy and missed train connections in words used carelessly.

In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth

for it is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.

Tengo la impresión de que sus corazones merecerían, aún más que el mío , los cuidados de un buen relojero.

Appena ti stabilisci in un posto fisso, non dimenticare di trovarti un orologiaio. - Un dottore vorrai dire! - No, no, per carità! Per i tuoi problemi, non rivolgerti mai a un dottore. Non capirebbe niente. Per regolare il tuo cuore, devi trovare un orologiaio.

he had focused so long on the precision of the word, the utterance that was most unfettered by artful manipulation, that the thing had become mere style.

Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast" went the old saying. In night patrolling, stealth was everything.

First-line indents and space between paragraphs have the same relationship as belts and suspenders. You only need one to get the job done. Using both is a mistake.

The state of Illinois contained twenty-seven different time zones, Wisconsin thirty-eight. In Pittsburgh the train station had six clocks, and each one showed a different time. When a clock struck noon in Washington, D.C., the time was 12:08 in Philadelphia, 12:12 in New York, and 12:24 in Boston.

Poetry is an art of economy.

A fitted shoe is a right good shoe," said the old man, enthusiastically. "I'll fit that shoe to the breadth of a hair." "And you'll be all the night about it," declared the son. "Better a late start than a never ending," said the father.

It ain't every hand that can move as fast as the eye can jump, and faster. But patience climbs the highest hill and—

Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.

People around here didn't waste words; language was a tool, not a treat. You didn't roll it around on your tongue, revel in it.

The true terrorism of girls is the accuracy of their aim.

A French proverb says 'Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.' To tell it more precise, wait till the clock strikes the midnight!

Minutes without seconds and hours without minutes cannot exist! Respect the links of the chain before respecting the chain!

The system wants you to be either a bow or an arrow; refuse both, because there is a third choice: To be an archer!