Quotes About Precision

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

Good description is fast, spare, specific, and showing. Weak description is slow, wordy, vague, abstract, and telling.

The vague qualifiers in those examples are chaff, a habit of conversation—um, ah, ahem! They add nothing. Happy, for example, is a strong, clear word, but if it's not enough, overjoyed, thrilled, or ecstatic has a precision that "very happy" lacks.

Cut everything superfluous,' Pound had said. 'Go in fear of abstractions. Don't tell readers what to think. Let the action speak for itself.

There never seemed to be any spontaneity with Pauline. If she saw you, she meant to. If she spoke to you, she'd already planned what to say so it came out sharply and perfectly.

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

you can't say everything, the fact that you have to winnow your thoughts down to the essentials, means that you can get to the heart of the matter quickly.

When you are thinking about what you want to say, it is often helpful to define it down, in your own mind, to a sentence or two.

Besides the headers, there were two skills in particular that Dondinho wanted me to focus on: 1) Keeping the ball as close to my body as possible while dribbling, and 2) being able to do everything equally well with both feet.

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

fill the holes with facts, not flowers.

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

damn sure you don't shoot the

Then the music. It's jazz and yet not jazz. There's something euphoric, disconnected about it. Like four instruments that have run amok. But it fools you. Because there is also a strange precision to it. Like a clown act in a circus ring. What takes the greatest precision is that it's supposed to sound like total chaos.

The precision of existence can never be known by the human mind. That's why the goal of every woman and man is to become human, but the purpose of being human is to leave everything human behind. To discover this precision, one has to stop being a human and start being the mystery of life itself.

Everything was verified by number and weight, and the total weight was recorded at that time.

With a measuring rod he measured the east side to be five hundred cubits long.