Quotes About Precision

Tuned pianos are pretty much alike, but no pianos are out of tune the same.

He had no interest in precision, or even any ability to be precise.

Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.

Trifles go to make perfection,And perfection is no trifle.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

He'd take his time. All good things came to those who danced when others least expected to find anything on the head of a pin.

El modo de dar una vez en el clavo, es dar cien veces en la herradura.

As I said, as indeed Orwell said, there is unproductive vagueness, but there is also dried out precision. We need both ways of thinking. Vagueness and precision, wide focus and narrow.

Always keep Rent as Rent and Repairs as Repairs and you won't go wrong.

my academic career was indifferent to the point of beauty- I was so unremarkable, in every way, that the unvarying precision of my mediocrity achieves a kind of loveliness

One word can sometimes be sharper than a thousand swords

Every word you add dilutes the sentence.

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.

And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing.

Before giving an answer, you must first understand the question. When the question is not clear, the answer will also follow the same path.

Big books are old fashioned. Now we focus on quality rather than quantity.

Most of the early modern scientists were Christians; they believed that matter was *not* preexisting, but had come from the hand of God. Thus, it had no power to resist His will but would obey he rules He had laid down- with mathematical precision.

The most careful thing you do is hitting a mosquito on your testis.

Mas] bowled well enough to know you could handle a split effectively in either of two ways. If you are right-handed, tap the left pin gently on the left side so that it pushes down the right pin. Or else bang the right pin hard enough so that it ricochets from the back to the left. Beginners, on the other hand, don't know about these things. They usually release the ball right down the middle. It is no wonder they end up hitting nothing.

It is about attacking a problem with the most manicured of claws and tearing it down into sensible, edible pieces.

Exactness of intention produces elegance of style.

The whaleman's rule of thumb was that, before diving, a whale blew once for each minute it would spend underwater. Whalemen also knew that while underwater the whale continued at the same speed and in the same direction as it had been traveling before the dive. Thus, an experienced whaleman could calculate with remarkable precision where a submerged whale was likely to reappear.