Quotes About Precision

Simplicity may be simple, but like complexity it requires linguistic precision, and may therefore call for relatively obscure expressions at times.

When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head.

Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.

People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

Once you learn to hit, teach yourself to never miss again.

Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.

Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.

In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

We're shooting 100 percent - 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.

Inches make champions.

The first rule of baseball is to get a good ball to hit.

Success is in the details.

Non-ambiguity is the shaping force of reality.

We always weaken whatever we exaggerate.

If you don't throw it, they can't hit it.