Quotes About Precision

Good things happen when you narrow your focus.

I guess my guitar parts are usually precise, but the execution of those parts is downright treacherous, since I'm not very good on guitar.

Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.

If you design something pretty with good golf shots in it, then I think that's the combination that creates a really nice golf course.

I'm really specific in the way that I shoot. I've always had a very good sense of what I need in the editing room.

I'm never very good with marks. They're always like, 'You're not on your mark'. I was like, 'Oh, it's that thing you put on the ground? Yeah, I don't pay attention to it.'

We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.

I'm a very good 15- to 18-foot shooter.

Before digital, I spent thirty years shooting color transparencies, which are very unforgiving of exposure. A half stop can make or break a good photo on slide film.

If a good word already exists, there is no need to invent something painful.

A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.

You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things.

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

I am someone who places great value on the detail. That was always the case, even in my days as a racing driver.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.

Things done well and with care exempt themselves from fear.

No generality has any weight whatever. It is like saying "how do you do?" When you have no intention of inquiring about ones health. But specific claims when made in print are taken at their value

I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.

The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.

I have an abacus at home.

Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.