Quotes About Precision

In spite of this, he will reach his heart's desire with wondrous precision.

A written language brings precision, forces ideas into steady shapes, secures against loss. Once the words are on the page they are there to be challenged and embellished by those who come across them later.

Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.

To think like a computer programmer, it helps to be lazy.)

No words are too good for the cutting-room floor, no idea so fine that it cannot be phrased more succinctly.

Remember, though, that debugging is as much art as it is computer science [..]

At every major step, physics has required, and frequently stimulated, the introduction of new mathematical tools and concepts. Our present understanding of the laws of physics, with their extreme precision and universality, is only possible in mathematical terms.

The fish appeared gray and white and moved with the precision and trajectory of an enormous bullet, a shot somehow fired in slow motion through the medium of the sea, moving with a purity and suppleness that were eerily beautiful.

He took as well as gave, but what he gave was unique. He had a curious precision of statement, a delicate flavour of humour, and a trick of small gestures to illustrate his meaning, which were peculiar to himself. The effect cannot be reproduced, but I remember how in discussing the wars of the future he said: "A chemist on each side will approach the frontier with a bottle" — his upraised hand and precise face conjuring up a vivid and grotesque picture.

Programming is the art of doing one thing at a time

Knight seemed to weigh the precision of every word he used, careful as a poet. Even his handwritten letters had gone through at least one draft, he said, mostly to remove unnecessary insults. Only necessary ones remained.

Hoe vaker een herinnering uit het geheugen wordt opgediept, hoe onnauwkeuriger de herinnering wordt.

The detective story is the sonnet. It is precise, neat, satisfyingly symmetrical, constrained, but sustained, by the nicety of its form… The thriller is the ode. It has no formal rules at all. It has no precise framework. It has no top and, Heaven knows, no bottom.

Clarity refers to the focus on one particular message or goal at a time, rather than accomplish too much at once

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.

Eyes directly above the target line, slightly behind the ball, to ensure you swing along the target line.

A good, general ratio is one-third backswing, two-thirds follow-through, that is, a follow-through twice as long as your backswing. That

just them by themselves Mark apparently thought that simply writing "Jesus took Peter and James and John" would leave open the possibility that others joined them, so he clarifies that the four were "just them by themselves." Generally we must take care not to attribute more exactness to a Gospel text than is strictly required. For example, if the evangelist gives a list, we are not justified in inferring that the list is exhaustive.

Second, with determination and focus, it is possible to wait for the moment when the human puckers up to blow. At that instant, spit the pill the short distance into the human's mouth. See how well they like it.

The rider's right hand moved; the sword flashed Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and sliced the arrow in two.

How to carry it, simple thrust and parry. Try and avoid stabbing yourself with it," he added.

Consideration of the method used in diverse orders of knowledge allows for the concordance of two points of view which seem irreconcilable. The sciences of observation describe and measure with ever greater precision the multiple manifestations of life … while theology extracts … the final meaning according to the Creator's designs.

Tier-1 guys operated on a razor edge of painstakingly honed skills. And every one of those skills was perishable. Either they were operating, or they were training – or they were progressively becoming useless.